Araucana thread anyone?

[cashdl]

Since I trimmed, I am not having fertility issues. My araucana roos do not seem to be slowed down any when they enounter a female with a tail. Fertility is good there to. Maybe higher but I have put that down to mutts being healthier. I usually get a 100% hatch rate with araucana to anything else, and probably run closer to 60 or 70% with araucana to araucana. Course all my pens are tufted to cleanfaced and tufted to tufted.


Lanae

 

[kano]

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This is a "mapuche "roo. (chilean tipe araucana) Has muffs , tufts, beard and crest.



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[cackleberrycoop]

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This is a "mapuche "roo. (chilean tipe araucana) Has muffs , tufts, beard and crest.

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Incredible! Is he rumples as well? How hard is it too hang on to all of these traits together in his offspring?

 

[Illia]

Love those. I've honestly been a huge fan of the thought of having all three muffs, beard, and tufts. Too bad it still breeds just as true as tufts. (well, the tufted part. . . . muffs/beard is really easy)

 

[cashdl]

Kano,

I love the crest on him as well. I am trying to perfect tufts, crests, rumpless, and blue eggs here. I don't want the muffs or beard, but I like the rest.


Lanae

 

[Illia]

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Crests? You breed for crests?

 

[cashdl]

Why not. Everyone has things they like. You like muffs beards and tufts. One of the original breeds that went into the european araucana sometimes had small crests.


Lanae

 

[smoothmule]

I hung on to one of my mixed up pullets. She's the black one that has the gigantic tufts and she has a beard and small muffs and she's rumpless so you obviously can have it all. She's not laying yet but once she is, I have enough Araucana roosters that I may pair her with one of the younger roosters and see what happens. I just don't want her eggs mixing with my purebred hens in case hers are blue and they could be, the hens I had at the time were purebred black ameraucana's from some good lines.

 

[Illia]

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I'm not objecting, just curious.

And actually, a part of the European standard for tailed Araucanas requires a crest.

Same goes for Aussie.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Well, I hated to do it but I sold my beautiful bilateral tufted roo and a splash hen to go with him. They went all the way across the country from SC to CA in less than 24 hours! I thought that was great time! I sure will miss the beautiful dude but I still can make more.