Araucana thread anyone?

[cackleberrycoop]

Excellent agenda, smoothmule. It is such a balm to hear of an Araucana breeder making headway, as you are.

Coberdor - what fascinating feather patterning you have going on over there! I really look forward to seeing progress photos of these chicks as they mature.

 

[Illia]

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The cuckoos are blue cuckoos.

The cute pullet with unknown color is a silver duckwing, with something else in there too.


Very nice girls though!

 

[wezl]

I'm curious to know what these colors are.

Bella, the black and white roo

and Casca, with the gold and black

Thanks!

 

[Illia]

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Bella is a Golden Duckwing - he'll get more yellow and red in as he matures.

Casca, gorgeous girl, is a BBR, but also has something else in her.

She's very similar to my Josephine.

An additional note - Casca is not purebred. I see some beard/muffs in there.

 

[wezl]

Illia, thank you! The colors have been driving me nuts, trying to find a match online! Both chicks came from the same parents, though they don't look like the description I had on the parents. Bella also has a single long feather coming from his butt. Not really like a tail, but stuck out kind of funny.

I love their personalities. I hope that's an Araucana trait, because I would like to get more of that.
I really appreciate the info on them!

 

[smoothmule]

Syble,
I raise Black Spanish Turkey and I've never had trouble with the poults not eating and drinking but never raised any large numbers so they got the same attention as my chicks. I never keep them together when they're young though. There are a lot of commercial turkey barns in our area and there is a law or something here that restricts them from having chicken barns near the turkey barns and I think it's like miles. apart. It has to do with illness and I think the turkeys are more likely to die from the stuff chickens carry around but don't die from. I do know they should not be reared together for several reasons.


Illia,
I'm still waiting to hatch a pullet like my BBR hen, I just lover her coloring. I even named her Beauty when she came home. Josephine is gorgeous. What do they look like in chick down? Seems like so many colors start out with the chipmunk striping. Are there any clues to look for with the chipmunk chicks that will give you an idea whether they are duckwing, BBR or wheaten etc? or do you just have to wait? I know it will be easier when I have my colors better set....in a few years.

 

[Illia]

Josephine was a real mystery for me and because of mysterious beginning, she still is a mystery. She looks to me right now like a BBR with something else influencing the darkness/amount of black, however, Gary Ramey I know had a brown-red project going on, and honestly - She was born black. Feathered out black at first with a lot of mossiness, then turned to what she is now, which really, is an extremely "mossy" brown-red with hints of BBR influence, such as the spangling on her chest, the slight pencilling on her back, and the way the gold laces her neck.


TRUE Wheaten hatches out solid yellow. BBR hatches out a nice chipmunk with good, thick, defined brown stripes.

 

[poularde]

I am very much a newbie with Araucanas. I pretty sure this is one breed that I would like to focus on. I am wondering if someone has a photo of good willow colored legs. Most pics I have seen of SQ birds have been whites with yellow legs. My single roo I have so far is a dark blue and his legs are dark with the soles of his feet being yellow. Is that considered willow? Hope someone can show good willow color.

 

[Illia]

Good willow color on a young pullet. Should be a dusty light greenish, with yellow soles. Can range to a normal green though with dark colored birds, and will appear yellow with white, barred, or splash colored birds.

 

[poularde]

Thanks Illia. Great example. My boy definitely does not have that much yellow to his legs.

Now the Black Araucanas can have pinkish legs. Is that correct?