Araucana thread anyone?

[cmsdvm]

Here's a horse of a different color. This is an accidental mating between my splash ameraucana and my white araucana. It has tufts and muffs! Will make someone a unique egg layer.

This double tufted black chick hatched Thursday

This is a pretty little blue with nice big tufts- not quite even but looking pretty good.

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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Nice Cindy! I promised DH no more chickens until we move but these ones are precious! Your 2 girls have fit in well into our little flock- and we're getting almost daily eggs from them

 

[puredelite]

Wow! Nice tufts you have there! The chick with both tufts and a muff will definately be interesting when it matures. Tailed or rumpless?

 

[syble]

so cute! With all the above freezing temps we had last week i was really getting the itch to hatch, then the world dumped 10" of snow on us again

Soon enough, maybe another month!?
Sib

 

[cmsdvm]

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Those 2 are tailed. Hope I find someone to take the extras off my hands today or they're off to the feed store. Pitter Patter, is the red araucana still insane? I'm always sorry when I allow araucanas to be raised by the hen. Seramas and Polish will still be pretty tame, but the araucanas need lots of early contact.

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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Are you able to sell chicks to your local feed store? Or do you show up with a box of chicks and stand at the front door selling? Just curious, because I have been thinking of asking our local store about having local chicks available for sale, and wonder if they are going to want only NPIP certified on their property.

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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Lovely, Lovely, Lovely! Congratulations.

 

[cmsdvm]

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Are you able to sell chicks to your local feed store? Or do you show up with a box of chicks and stand at the front door selling? Just curious, because I have been thinking of asking our local store about having local chicks available for sale, and wonder if they are going to want only NPIP certified on their property.

I am NPIP. The chains like Dels said no way but the little local store agreed that I could GIVE them to him. That's what I'm going to do. The alternative is to kill a lot of chicks if you're breeding show araucanas.

 

[cackleberrycoop]

Very interesting. I am torn as to whether or not I want to become NPIP certified or not. A big part of the problem is that finding out what the requirements for Montana are is next to impossible. There's a group of us trying to nail down the state on their process and requirements, but it's really been like pulling teeth, comical if we didn't all really, really want to know. What is the annual cost for you to have your flock certified?

Have you tried advertising your chicks on Craigslist for something like $2.00/chick and call them a generic barnyard mix. My rejects sell like you would not believe this way.

 

[cluckcluck42]

Question!!

I have a unilaterally tufted white Araucana roo. I also have a white muffed Araucana pullet. I was going to sell her this spring or throw her in the Olive Egger pen but I've been thinking of making a third Araucana pen and breeding these two together and selling all the muffed offspring as EE's and keeping the tufted white ones. But is this a bad idea? Could the gene for muffs "hide" in a tufted bird? I'm not 100% sure I want to make a third pen anyways but just have been running this idea through my head and wondering if that is how the genetics work. Interested to see what you all think.