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I think there might be a lot MORE people breeding them if they weren't so darn difficult to get a decent show specimen. (I say this based more on what I have read from long time breeders vs. personal experience.) Also, "lethal gene" is in and of itself a huge turn off to folks. Most don't...

Does anyone ship true araucana bantam chicks?

We have a few floating around, possibly from Mike Gilbert? Whoever it is that sells on eBay. Not very good hatch rates, generally, but it is possible. Late Spring/Early Fall shipping generally works best because it's less hot on your end, and less cold on ours. If anyone's shipping up, can you...

Not a purebred, but I am proud of her! This girl is half Araucana and half rosecomb brown Leghorn. We couldn't get our hands on purebred Araucana hens, so this was the solution for the time being. They turned out beautiful. Many of the others have stunning tufts, too. The other birds in...

How can you tell if a day-old chick is rumpless or not? I thought it would be obvious, but with just one out so far....I don't have anything to compare it to!

Quote: I also found the pictures of their Araucanas to be very interesting. They look like nice big utilitarian birds, but not necessarily what I have come to associate with classic Araucana type. However, if their fertility and hardiness is really that good, I bet it will be a lot easier to...

Here's the thread: http://www.punbb-hosting.com/forums/Albertachickensetc/viewtopic.php?id=11506&p=2 Check out post #22. (The entire thing is a very interesting discussion, though.)

Quote: Do people breed for less fluff, then, if it causes so many problems? I think the author of the other note was suggesting it would have more to do with the hens than the roo, because pasty butt would, basically, imply weaker "butt" muscles (not sure of proper anatomical terms for this,)...

I read a discussion in another forum where one Araucana breeder had associated pasty butts in chicks with infertility issues in adults. I was wondering if anyone here had made that association?

Wow, that egg was GORGEOUS! I read somewhere that Araucana eggs are often bluer than Ameraucana eggs these days? Is that true, or is it like most things relating to poultry, and boils down to individual lines?

Are rumplessness and tufts dominant or inherited traits? I'm picking up some eggs to hatch for a friend (still tweaking my incubator) and the eggs are from a rumpless Araucana rooster over rose combe Brown Leghorns and Cuckoo Marans. I'm looking forward to the sex linked Olive Eggers and some...