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I'm headed to the Ohio Nationals this weekend (as a spectator, I don't have anything to show), and I would like to pick up some leg bands while I'm there. What size bands do you guys use for your full-grown Araucana roos and hens? I plan to get the colored plastic numbered ones.

She's beautiful! And what a cute baby!

I have a question for the serious breeders out there. What's your system for record keeping? I've been flailing away using a combination of a spreadsheet and the "Pages" app on my iPad. What I would really like is a page for each bird with all pertinent info, pics of chick down, juvenile...

Does anyone here use hen saddles on their Araucanas? What size do you use? Thanks! Kirsten

I "liked" Araucanas on Facebook, but it doesn't seem to be an interactive group. Is there another one, and if so, how do I find it? Kirsten

I have a very slow maturing Araucana cockerel. He's had a rough winter. I hatch eggs under broodies and let the hens raise their chicks with my flock of big dual purpose birds. This has always worked well before, but the day after I sold his only sibling, his mom weaned him, and he was on his...

I have a very slow maturing Araucana cockerel. He's had a rough winter. I hatch eggs under broodies and let the hens raise their chicks with my flock of big dual purpose birds. This has always worked well before, but the day after I sold his only sibling, his mom weaned him, and he was on his...

I I don't know if they really do or not, but I'm a bird watcher and I see crows mob hawks all the time. I suspect a hawk pair would think about nesting elsewhere if crows were around, but I don't have any actual proof. I also have turkey vultures that roost in the woods in the summer. I...

Here's my current set-up. We put the A-frame on wheel casters so it can be easily moved. It's surrounded by a 100 ft. length of electronetting. The shed coop is right in my backyard as you see and it is surrounded by 2 x 164 ft. lengths of netting. The coop cannot be moved, but the netting...

My (only possible) solution to this is electronetting. It is expensive, but worth every penny. It's not quite free-range, but one charger can charge two 174 ft. lengths, so it's close. My birds never seem to pine for greener pastures (I've only had to clip my Sussex roo his first year). The...

In 2000 I rescued some commercial laying hens from a nearby facility that was destroyed by a tornado. They were giving away as many hens as they could, then euthanized the rest. I was not set up to keep chickens at that time, so gave them to people who could use them. I don't know how long...

That's great! Do you clip your birds? I'd like to start setting Araucana eggs as soon as the weather is reasonable and I get a broody (I have one hen already thinking about it despite the current 13 degrees). I was going to wait until mid-February or so to clip, but it would be great if I...

He's beautiful! I finally had to spread some hay out to get mine out of the coop. They still won't put a foot in the snow however!

I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas! Now I'm sitting here in Ohio awaiting the blizzard. Kirsten

It's pretty cool--I was surprised to find eggs. I knew they'd be old enough around Christmas, but I also thought it would be wrong time of year. We're also having our first bad winter weather now and all my chickens are offended by the snow, so they're staying in and getting on each others'...

Thanks Puddin Fluff! I should add that they are just 3 days shy of 22 weeks old.

Solstice eggs! Two of my Araucana pullets laid their first eggs today. The brown egg is from an older Orp. Kirsten

Sounds like a plan! They're all only 18 weeks old, so I don't know anything about their fertility and I'm a complete newbie with this breed, so we'll see how it goes.

I caught him tonight and checked him out, and yes, they're pretty rough, but they're spangles. From a distance they looked like different colored individual feathers. I guess that means he is ER based too. I'm not sure about the silver though. He's been straw-colored on top since those...

Yeah, it seems like all the Araucanas out there are a potpourri of colors!