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Hey, I do too. They're not very popular or common, sadly.
Tails are something that occasionally occurs in flocks. It is often from someone's neglection to breed it out, someone's project in improving fertility, or other reasons. They can be tricky to track down the culprit carrier of...
If your Araucana has one or both tufts, doesn't matter, he only has one gene. Thus, crossing him and a non-tufted bird, even another Araucana, will NOT create the lethal issue.
As said, the lethal issue is with having both genes. So even when crossing two tufted parents, only 25% chance of the...