Araucana thread anyone?

[call ducks]

ok got my pair today , the hen is white or diluted buff , can't tell she has no tail. the rooster is buff with some wing feather's are white , and he has a tail. can not tell if i there is tufted or not , can not get close to them , they are flighty.
ETA the breeder that i got them from has had the breed for 23 years

 

[call ducks]

will i had a pair untill the hen flew awa

lets hope she comes back , but i am not hopefull

 

[megcpat]

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Is this from your hen who's eating her own eggs? Guess you caught her in time today.......... good thing too, that's a beautiful egg. The same thing surprised me about my own banty Araucana hens - the gigantic blue eggs they lay! The fertile Araucana bantam eggs that I ordered for the incubator were teensey compared to what I get from my girls, so I guess this trait is line specific.

 

[pride&joy]

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sorry to hear that, sure hope she comes back?

 

[klf73]

this is a "splash" type I got from Gary

 

[megcpat]

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I am so jealous right now.

 

[klf73]

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I am so jealous right now.

don't be, he went to a new home. I have a knack for only hatching roos it seems most of the time, would have kept him if he had a girl.... It was a toss up between him and a lav split triple tufted rumpless roo, guess who won...

 

[Illia]

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Are you serious? That chick turned into that cockerel? Wow, I'd think the chick looks splash cuckoo or something. . . I've got quite a few chicks who look like that third pic, wonder if they'll also go against my estimates and turn that tri-color splash look.

 

[klf73]

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Are you serious? That chick turned into that cockerel? Wow, I'd think the chick looks splash cuckoo or something. . . I've got quite a few chicks who look like that third pic, wonder if they'll also go against my estimates and turn that tri-color splash look.

yep, he looked barred too

Gary ended up with a whole pen that looked like this and I wanted to get more but never got around to it....he had posted a pic of them

 

[Illia]

Yeah, I believe I have the luck of receiving a breeding pair of his cuckoos. As for that splashy color, I know he was mainly working with splash and cuckoo, they're quite neat. I LOVE the rooster in that photo of his with the barred girls and splash boy. I sure hope my best tufted splash turns out like him!