araucana has how many tufts?

[Shaffer]

ChickieKeeta,
Just go to feathersite and look up the Araucana breed and see how the English had progressed with the extemes of muff/bearded plus double tufts but they don't show the extra tuft on the neck or chin area that your birds appear to have. Your birds would be fun to work with and produce some real nice odd additions to the poultry world. HS

 

[ChickieKeeta]

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It looks like a left sided muff. I still think the neck tuft is cool. I will need to take a closer look. I am looking forward to what results will come of breeding next season.

I have 2 tailed clean faced, 1 black, 1 white. Those came from the first eggs from you. I have 3 rumpless clean faced beauties from your eggs.
2 blue, 1 mottled black. I need to take new photos as I apparently deleted the SD card without downloading the photos.

The 2 pictured in this thread came from eggs from AHappychick. Roo is
rumpless araucana, hens EEs. I would think she could possibly get a neck tuft as that is where this one came from.

As for me breeding, I need a real incubator and/or broodies and correct temp/humidity parameters. With proper incubation I could have had many more chicks from all of the eggs I got this season.

Amazing, I got shipped eggs from you, AHappychick & Seabrightmom and a very high percentage developed. I highly recomend buying from all of you.

 

[ChickieKeeta]

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Thank you Harry, I will. I will be looking for input from you & many BYCers for my 2010 breeding project.

Oh, and a lot of luck since I have had poor hatch rates due to improper incubation.

 

[ChickieKeeta]

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I think you could possibly get a neck tuft. The pictured chicks came from your rumpless roo & EE hens. There must be a gene in there somewhere for the neck tuft!

Now I need to find a fitting name for this unusual chick.

 

[Bantimna]

The 2 one is kinda............ intersting!

 

[ChickieKeeta]

Bantimna
Thank you. I think so too.

 

[Bantimna]

My pleasure

 

[miladachicken]

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how about Sparkles/Sparkie for short

 

[ChickieKeeta]

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He does have a small tuft on the left side. If you look closely you can see a feather growing from the peduncle behind the muff.

 

[KittyKelly]

You should dress her up like Santa Claus and enter her in the Halloween costume contest!!!