10 tiny chicks breeds: Legbar, OE and Araucana?

[chickengr]

Thank you @BDutch: the Araucana I have (and had) are similar to the Dutch type, except I always choose chicks without tufts (in the same clutch you can have chicks with and without them), because I don't know about genetics but I know tuft genes can be lethal, so I prefer not try my hand with that!
I see online that British type is starting to spreading in Italy too now!

if both male and female araucana have huge tufts about 25% of chicks will die in shell. smaller tufts or one tufted and another one clean faced will not create any problem. there are also some araucanas with 1 tuft only that are safe to breed.

the same rule applies to crested breeds. I have bali ducks (look like crested indian runner) with different size of crests. all of my females have small crests.

 

[maceleneo]

Actually I don't even like the tufts, but it could be an ideological stand because I wouldn't keep a certain physical feature if it involved this kind of risks. I know it's not a problem if you don't cross chickens with the same feature, I still don't understand it, but that's just me.
I recently read some old post in this forum about the Colloncas and I would really love to have some, but in Italy you can't find any info about it, I guess noone is breeding them now!

 

[chickengr]

Actually I don't even like the tufts, but it could be an ideological stand because I wouldn't keep a certain physical feature if it involved this kind of risks. I know it's not a problem if you don't cross chickens with the same feature, I still don't understand it, but that's just me.
I recently read some old post in this forum about the Colloncas and I would really love to have some, but in Italy you can't find any info about it, I guess noone is breeding them now!

years ago I tried to find colloncas but they were not available in europe or at least I could not find them.

 

[BDutch]

years ago I tried to find colloncas but they were not available in europe or at least I could not find them.

I don’t like the looks of chickens without a tail. If I can buy fertile eggs of bantam English Araucanas one day I try to brood/incubate them.
Only not as long as I have 7-8 chickens. My setup is good now, but it gets crowded with more chickens.

 

[chickengr]

I don’t like the looks of chickens without a tail. If I can buy fertile eggs of bantam English Araucanas one day I try to brood/incubate them.
Only not as long as I have 7-8 chickens. My setup is good now, but it gets crowded with more chickens.

if you could enjoy watching rumpless araucana scratching and pecking dirt you would not have time to realize they don't have tails. they have such personalities! english araucanas are good foragers too. had them both.

 

[maceleneo]

I don’t like the looks of chickens without a tail.

Whaaaaat? But that's the reason I love Araucana: they remind me of tiny Kiwis

 

[talkinboutchickens]

For the CCL's, you've got two females and two males

 

[talkinboutchickens]

 

[maceleneo]

For the CCL's, you've got two females and two males

Thank you, I thought so! Do you believe my "mistery chick" could be a light male CCL?

 

[talkinboutchickens]

Thank you, I thought so! Do you believe my "mistery chick" could be a light male CCL?

Of course!

I think I have all figured out except for one!
They are about 3 weeks old now and they are supposed to be 4 Legbar (2 females and 2 males), which are easy to tell:
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Then I should have 3 Olive eggers (Araucana x Marans), and I just noticed that 3 chicks have feathered legs, so I guess these must be the Olive eggers (the yellow one seems to have some muView attachment 4076665ffs and pea comb, while the other 2 have single combs):View attachment 4076668
Lastly there should be 3 Araucana. These 2 could be Araucana, they have clean legs and pea combs:View attachment 4076686
The last one is the only one that puzzles me: (s)he has single comb, so he can't be an Araucana, maybe (s)he is another OE, I'm not sure, but time will tell View attachment 4076689

Oops! I see that you've already figured out the genders of the legbars, sorry I didn't see this post
I have no idea what your mystery chick could be. Not an araucana, because they have pea combs and muffs, unless it could be an araucana with a single comb and without a muff (which I'm just throwing that out there, I literally have no knowledge in chicken genetics and such LOL so I'm most likely wrong..) And doesn't look like it could be a maran x araucana mix (OE.) And doesn't look like a legbar either...Hmmmm. I guess the best you can do is wait for her/him to grow up and grow their feathers in.