Araucana thread anyone?

[Illia]

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Exactly - It's all about the head and beak. I just cap the spurs in case - Plus one of my Ameraucanas actually popped the outer shell of his spur off recently while in a fight with an Araucana, and I don't want to see that happen again. I like roosters to have normal, healthy, beautiful and fully developed spurs.

Well, the Araucanas are now separate from the bachelor pad. At first there was a 2 second fight, then the loser tried his best to get out but couldn't find his way out, so he went back and forth, back and forth, back and forth. Finally after an hour he's settled though. No fights or issues anymore.

So no one knows any Red breeders?

 

[syble]

not sure about 100% red, but lanae has something she calls ginger red? maybe give them a shot? if nothing else it could give you something to work with while you continue your search.... I think i have 2 gingers still growing..i think... at anyrate when they hatch i can post pics... but i suppose that wont help till they grow? she may have better pics for ya.
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[cashdl]

I call mine ginger red because that is the color of my double tufted main hen. The roo has alot of ginger to him also. I am eagerly watching the chicks grow right now. I am getting several colors from that pen. I have gotten two blacks, two blues, and the rest are peachy duckwing colorations. We will see if any turn out gingery. A couple of the boys are looking pretty red, so we shall see.

I am finally getting duckwing pullets out of my pens. None of them are tufted yet. All the tufted are either not duckwing colored or are two little to tell anything other than they look like chipmonks.

Ann Cushing,

I am keeping you and your eggs in my thoughts and hoping for a happy hatch.

Ann Horsman,

I am wishing you a speedy recovery and happy hatching also.

Lanae

 

[Birch Run Farm]

The last cockerel I hatched from last fall is red. He does grow some pesky tail quils and they are black and his primaries are black. He seems to be a brown red but heavy on the red coloring. Almost looks like a Rhody. Almost... No tufts but he does have a cute small comb. Free for the taking....

 

[smoothmule]

I think I'll wait on a cockerel or rooster in red till Lucy is mature so by next spring, maybe. With my luck, something would happen to her before she begins laying. And if I produced one, I may produce others of her color. I'm keeping the flock in one pen for now since I don't know where the red is coming from. This year may be like that for me. I'm not able to do much for the next month or so except plan.

Lanae, do you have any photo's of a ginger red?

Illia,
I get such a kick out of Rudy and Degas when they are the "Yard Roosters". Both of them are such pets and so used to being picked up. They follow me to do chores, they chase my poodle away from me, they "run" when I come out the back door to meet me and I just enjoy them both so much. I want chicks from them both so about weekly, I switch them. The hens are used to it now too.

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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Wow, Cindy, where do you find the time? I was just marveling over your stepping up to take the Show Committee position!
I can't wait till later on when I can really sit down and brows through the site, but at a first quick read thorough, it is beautiful and you hit all of the important information in just the right places and time. If anyone ever NEEDED to have a web site it is Steve Waters. You have done him and the Araucana breed a great service by creating this site and what perfect timing - just as the special article on Steve Waters is reaching everyone's home.

 

[smoothmule]

Remember the lil black chick I posted a little while back? I've named him (I think it's a cockerel cause I'm already seeing a bit of wattle) Monkey because of the cute yellow and black markings on his face. He's got great tufts, rumpless and he's feathering in black as expected, a few wing feathers are white but I'm told they will moult out when he gets mature feathering. The only weird thing is his lack of normal down on his head. Anyone see this before? He was hatched this way, no real down on the head, only a stubble looking stuff, maybe first feather stubs? I have no clue. Kind of funky looking and his personality is funny to so he got the name Monkey.

 

[Illia]

You sure no one has been pecking it all out? That is just kinda creepy but cute looking. . .

 

[cashdl]

Every once in a while I get a chick with no down what so ever. So far I have had two. I feathered out but took him almost 3 months. Poor ugly thing. He is good sized and normal looking now. The second one is a pullet and she is two months and still doesn't have all her feathers, just enought to get an idea of gender. She is very ugly but so feisty. She is feathering out a silver duckwing, she may have tufts. I keep seeing funny sprigs on her cheaks, we will see.

I will take some pics of my hen.

Lanae

 

[Illia]

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From what I see on your website, your "Ginger Reds" are basically Duckwing w/Columbian genes, like my Marango.

The Columbian can aid in creating Red itself, but otherwise, Ginger Red requires another gene to be so. Your birds in the mean time, like my Marango, are technically "Quail."

The ginger in your roo is the autosomal red from the gold/silver genes, diluted to a buff color from the blue. The ginger from the females is simply the brown color of a straight gold duckwing, but the Columbian takes away the extra patterning and color on the breast.