I got a tufted/rumpless chick 5 days ago, black but with bleed through red(geareduplyn). I waited to see if tail feathers developed before I celebrated. No tail feathers!
I just hatched another tufted/rumpless(skyblueegg), and I think it's splash! I will post pics this weekend. I still have one left to hatch and I have 5 from birch run farms that are going in the hatcher tonight. Just an FYI, I have hatched a few batches already and my only tufted chick died at 2 weeks, and I had not hatched any tufted/rumpless. I am so excited!!
ETA- this is the first time that all of the araucana that went into the hatcher actually hatched, and 3 are bilaterally tufted! Only one of the tufted is rumpless, the fourth is rumpless but not tufted.
ETA- this is the first time that all of the araucana that went into the hatcher actually hatched, and 3 are bilaterally tufted! Only one of the tufted is rumpless, the fourth is rumpless but not tufted.
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