Thank you so much guys! I am so glad y'all like the pics. I know some people think Araucanas are ugly... they're certainly different, but I don't know about ugly!
Also very happy to hear that I'm not the only one with plans to try to breed the large fowl in "wild colors (GDW, SDW, BBR). Like...
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Hi Jody, glad you like the pics! I am so glad you're going to start working on the "wild types" they certainly need all the help they can get! How exciting!
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Honestly I hesitate to label her at all... I think she's a little too dark even to be wild-type BBR, but the color...
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Ok, I'm going to admit that I am "plumage color" challenged here, but your GDW looks like SDW to me. What is the difference in them please?
Well, in my flock, hens like this:
Tend to produce male offspring like this:
Which I see as more "Silver," or if the plumage were actually...
I've been breeding Large Fowl Araucanas for several years now... specifically, I've been trying to breed for Golden Duckwing (GDW), Silver Duckwing (SDW), and Black-Breasted-Red (BBR) varieties, which hardly exist in correct form for Large Fowl right now. My birds still don't have correct...