Araucana thread anyone?

[Illia]

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I would say because of its lighter color and because of the stripe going right through the eye like eye-liner. Common male duckwing thing.

It looks like you have a bunch of duckwing based chicks in there, no wheatens though. The blueish looking one is likely just some melanizer or who knows what on it. I don't know the parents so it is hard to say. The last duckwing chick I had with an odd blue hue to it turned out to be a Silver Duckwing male with a lot of melanizer/white spots on the chest.

 

[cackleberrycoop]

Gary Ramey has an add in the Breeders Directory in Backyard Poultry Magazine.

 

[snowhorse]

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Appreciate the help! Hopefully I will have some beauties of my own!!

 

[cashdl]

Anyone going to the Stockton, CA poultry show? I will be there Saturday. I would love to meet anyone who will be going. Send me a pm and I will give you my cell so we can meet up. I am not showing, but I will be taking a couple of birds to sell, I think.

Lanae

 

[cmsdvm]

I'm not going to Stockton, but 3 of my Polish and 3 of my bantam araucanas are. They're heading that way with Steve Waters as we speak. I know we'll have a minimum of 4 araucana exhibitors there, so it should be good. Can anyone use a bilaterally tufted rumpless white bantam cockerel with, alas, white legs? Otherwise he's dinner.

 

[cashdl]

I look forward to meeting Steve if I get the chance. I am not showing but will be oogling. Hope I spelled that right.

I am taking several of my roos for sale including two rumpless tufted roos and a few depending on how many will comfortably fit cleanfaced roos. I am hoping there will be other araucana for sale there to tempt me.

Lanae

 

[star2525]

Be sure and take your Camera Lanae as we'd all love to see some pictures of the show and the birds, hope you have a safe trip and great time at the show.

Victoria

 

[VillageChicken]

I have a black araucana large fowl that just came into lay. I was out in the coop and saw her sitting for the first time. Came back 5 minutes later and she was doing that stand and push thing and I hear a nice plunk, and there it was, her first egg! Or so I thought! She's in a raised enclosed coop that I need a stool to crawl into, and before I could get in there to remove the egg (don't want her going broody in Jan) both she and the Roo she is with began pecking at the egg! What in the world? Like serious, get this thing open pecking. There was a smear of blood on the egg, so I do think it may have been her first egg, and the blood incited the pecking, but now I wonder how many eggs they may have eaten already!!

Anyone else have egg eating Araucanas? If they do eat an egg, do they leave any traces?

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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Yikes! Bad pullet, bad rooster!! I have never had an egg eating Araucana, but I have had egg eaters of other breeds and they do leave evidence behind; I've found slimy nesting boxes with small pieces of shell stuck to the shavings or I've found eggs with a hold in the shell and all the insides pecked out. I would recommend removing that rooster right away and cross your fingers that he was just showing her for the first time and she didn't quite get it. Do you have any wooden eggs or golf balls to put in the nest to try and fool her into thinking anything small and round is hard and not worth pecking at?
So..... what color was the first egg?

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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Sounds like fun! Be sure to add some drool to your oogling from me

How 'bout that man of yours - you dragging him along also, or did he find an escape?