Araucana thread anyone?

[poularde]

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I love that boy!!!

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

I've talked to Steve Waters a number of times. He is a member of the Araucana Club but doesn't post often (not quite of the internet era). He may be showing this weekend in Chehalis. Anyone know???

 

[cashdl]

I love him too. Here is a pic of a roo out of him. As you can see his comb is nice and small.

Lanae

 

[poularde]

How old is that roo? I am still new to what the color will look like when the birds mature. I have not had too many colors of chickens yet. What color is he? I ma glad to see that you can improve a comb that quickly.

 

[cashdl]

He was 6 months old in that pic. It was taken last month. I expect him to get more gold on his shoulders, hackle, and saddle. His mom is a Blue splash and his dad is the duckwing.

Lanae

 

[cluckcluck42]

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That is interesting, so BBR to white can create blue? I sure do have a lot to learn about colour genetics. I thought blue only came from BBS.

Does anyone have a website that I could study to figure out more about these genetics? I have a black roo with some red/orange in him and a black hen, I have a white roo and white hen, and then probably a BBR and duckwing thrown in there. I need to figure out how to use these guys best.

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So interesting. A member posted on this thread a few pages back about possibly starting a website dedicated to keeping track of the breed. I pm'd them, it would be very cool to get something like that going where we can all chip in with our experience.

One more question: I have a clean faced black Ameraucana pullet. I have been wondering how terrible it would be to add her into one of my Araucana breeding pens?? I am planning on having at least three breeding pens and I was dabbling with the idea of putting her in with my black one tufted rooster, then breeding that offspring to a rumpless tufted rooster and see what that offspring looks like. If I am careful to cull if the offspring is not to type, could that be beneficial in adding new blood and good blue egg colour?
Or is this a no-no no matter how you look at it?

 

[cashdl]

It is up to each person to make those decisions. I am sure there are plenty of people out there who have done that. If you are wanting to sell chicks later, be sure to take notes so you can let people know whats in the background of the birds you have.

You would be bringing in white skin and beards and muffs, that could be difficult to weed out but you may improve egg color if your ameraucana lays nice blue eggs. Its your choice.

I would think that getting a nice blue egg laying hen would be the easier route to go. Course finding one available may be difficult.


Lanae

 

[cashdl]

You did say she was clean faced, so no beard or muffs? Is she an ameraucana? Either way if it was me I would go for it and make sure to seperate those chicks from your pure araucanas.

Heck I have marans and araucana pens, and EE and Araucana pens. I just don't put the offspring into my pure araucana pens. I am just playing with colors of birds and eggs. I have the room.

Lanae

 

[cmsdvm]

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Steve will be there with his large fowl whites and his black bantams. Our Washington Feather Fanciers club show is this weekend. There will be an auction to raise money for the club. If there are good araucanas, do you want me to post them here? People would have to be watching this site on Saturday and be prepared to tell me their max bid, then I would be willing to ship their birds at whatever shipping costs. With Steve Waters in the area, there might be something special. I could email or text pictures, but probably not post them.

 

[star2525]

I did the same thing Lanae did with a Rooster whose comb was too big and flopped to the one side, I bred him to my Araucanas from UCON with smaller combs and the resulting cockrels are improvements upon the Rooster they came from with combs that are shorter and more correct, my UCON hens are tailed and I did get some rumpless ones from the matings and some that was partial tailed as well as some that had tails, so you will get improvements as you go.

Victoria