Araucana hatching eggs?

[TexasBlues]

how many chicks are you hopin for

3 or 4 hens would be nice.
Multiple rooster…
1st option would be more pens
2nd would be give away to friends with xhickens
3rd would be sale on Craigslist
If that doesn’t work out than I’m not opposed to chicken soup.

 

[TexasBlues]

At less than a day old, there really isn't much at all to judge for someone to keep back

I would think tufted would be detected at hatch

 

[TexasBlues]

Rumpless too

 

[TexasBlues]

Cackle doesn't sell Araucana

You’re right. I haven’t seen any hatchery with Araucana.
I think they’re unique birds with special traits endemic to them. I think they should preserved. It sounds like they can be traced back to the blue egg origins. Besides the chines blue layer that nobody has in n. America.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I would think tufted would be detected at hatch

Yeah, but breeders also need non tufted to keep in their pens.

Rumpless too

Very few are hatched tailed if bred right. I was given the tailed culls in the batch I got and only had 1 tailed extra. I'm pretty sure I ordered 10 or so chicks. All the ones I ordered were rumpless.

 

[TexasBlues]

Yeah, but breeders also need non tufted to keep in their pens.

Very few are hatched tailed if bred right. I was given the tailed culls in the batch I got and only had 1 tailed extra. I'm pretty sure I ordered 10 or so chicks. All the ones I ordered were rumpless.

Where did you order from?
I think most breed rumpless, but the awesome araucana link I posted from California has tailed also. I do like that he has had them for decades and it’s a good deal on the eggs, I think he sends like 42 eggs. That would give a lot to choose from.
I was thinking another advantage to hatching eggs is I would get to see the egg they hatch from and the obvious advantage is not having chicks go through the rigors of shipping.
I would do chicks if they were local though.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Where did you order from?
I think most breed rumpless, but the awesome araucana link I posted from California has tailed also. I do like that he has had them for decades and it’s a good deal on the eggs, I think he sends like 42 eggs. That would give a lot to choose from.
I was thinking another advantage to hatching eggs is I would get to see the egg they hatch from and the obvious advantage is not having chicks go through the rigors of shipping.
I would do chicks if they were local though.

Chicken Scratch. But they're one of two places that may have given my flock mareks, so I wouldn't go with them.

 

[TexasBlues]

That’s unfortunate. I’m sorry to hear that.
Here’s some pics of araucanas from the net that I liked.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I have two girls with tufts (one is a hen I got from my shipment, the other is her daughter) and had a few males with tufts from the shipment too that didn't stay so I could keep my hen. Even if you only get one or two with tufts, if you constantly hatch eggs from those birds, you should get more tufted in only a year or so. I only hatched the one egg I think this year (broody hens in a mixed flock right now so I didn't pay much attention to egg color), but she ended up with tufts. You can tell within a few days (maybe by rubbing their cheeks, you can feel the organs at a day, but I'm not sure honestly if you can) if they have tufts. Personally. Muffs are way easier to see at a day old.

 

[TexasBlues]

The more I read about the araucana the less I am interested in trying to source them. The hatch rate is what seems to be the biggest problem.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/did-i-just-buy-really-bad-araucana-eggs.1441406/