Araucana thread anyone?

[BlueBirdChick]

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[Birch Run Farm]

Royce,

What does DT stand for?

 

[nivtup]

Well, I am not Royce.........

DT = Double Tufted.........

Don

 

[cashdl]

I am guessing double tufted. Cute babies everyone. I hope the weather is nice this weekend, I will get pics of my babies. I have sold a few, but I still have about 30 running around with more to hatch this weekend, I hope.


Lanae

 

[Birch Run Farm]

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Sorry Don, my bad. I have confused you with Royce. Oh well. Nice chick! How are you so sure it is a cockerel? I can never tell when they are that small.

 

[Birch Run Farm]

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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.

Illia,

I think Josephine needs to come live with me for my brown red project! My little hen Zephyr and cock Matisse are brown reds.

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

I read a discussion in another forum where one Araucana breeder had associated pasty butts in chicks with infertility issues in adults. I was wondering if anyone here had made that association?

 

[cashdl]

Not true as far as I have seen. I had a blue roo that I sold. He had the worst case of pasty butt and had it for two months it seemed. Before I sold him, I loaned him to a friend who now has 3 nice rumpless tufted chicks from that roo. Since it was the only roo with the girls, I am assuming they are his. I don't get alot of pasty butt here, maybe 1 chick out of 10 or so. The roo was special because he loved baths and blow dries. He would come running when I would say bath, then he would sink into the water and close his eyes. Same for the blow drier. He would lean into the air and close his eyes.

Any hoo, I have not noticed a fertility issue with pasty butt, maybe others have. Now sometimes the birds that seems to have pasty butt, actually have fluffy butt and the poop gets caught in the fluff and starts to look like pasty butt. Fluffy butt does cause fertility problems, so you have to trim the fanny every spring and your good to go.


Lanae

 

[Illia]

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Those are Easter Eggers.

Araucanas don't have beards or cheek "muffs" like those chicks.

 

[puredelite]

Well I finally got around to loading up the LG , was kinda waiting on Spring to make it self at home here. Temp topped out today in the high 40's. Anyway, have two breeding pens set up- one with a gold duckwing looking roo( has a blue breast?) has DT's and four hens. Two are BBR's and one is blue. The other hen is blue breasted with other markings similar to the BBR's. Second pen is also a DT roo with four CF black hens. Had intended on using a DT splash roo with them but he got puny and sickly and despite my best efforts he finally died. Had great hopes of breeding some blues from this pen. Turned all of them up-side down and trimmed a whole lot of fluff narrowly missing some well aimed projectiles in the process! I don't think they enjoyed this procedure any more than I did, fine down was floating everywhere!