Araucana thread anyone?

[cackleberrycoop]

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Oh, sweetheart! I'm very sorry that you have to deal with such intense health issues. I also will be praying for you.


Your birds really have come along nicely - it has been a real treat watching your flock grow and develop.

A few pop into my mind that I would be ecstatic to bring home if I lived close enough

 

[Quirky]

I am sorry to hear about your health issues, exoticducklvr. I hope you find good homes for all your birds, and I hope you make a complete recovery.

One of my pullets has had a terribly dirty booty lately. I had to bring her in and have DH help me wash her. It was very smelly. She was so sweet; she rested her head on DH's wrist while I washed her. I used a warm blow-dryer on her and then plenty of Neosporin on her vent. The other pullet had some dry poop on her heiney feathers, but nothing like the first one. The cockerel is clean as a whistle. He's so vain.

The weather has been in the 50s at night and during the day, too, for a couple of days. Their coop is nice and cozy and I feed them right before they roost at night.

Any advice? Information? She's about 3-4 months old.

 

[Gold Griffin Chicken Mom]

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As a chicken washing expert (which is the start of several long stories, lol) I would tell you to trim the feathers around the gal's vent. Trimming below the vent is the most important. The feathers will grow back. It might take longer now since the weather is getting hot out, but there is little evidence left of our butt-trimming parties from February. You don't have to cut off the entire feather. If the tipis all that is dirty and trying to mat, just trim off the tip. I try to remove broken feathers just at the break.

The diet and health experts will have to advise you on niturition and medicines that will help.

By the way, if the cockeral is, shall we say, missing the "mark", he may be part of the cause for her having a stinky spot there. A butt fluff trim will help him, too!

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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That's an interesting thought (in more ways than one

) I did have a little bit of poopy bottom trouble in the pen that proved to be completely infertile this year. Nowhere else. Hmm, Anyone else notice a similar pattern? It could help diagnose the cause of the fertility problem.

 

[Gold Griffin Chicken Mom]

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That's an interesting thought (in more ways than one

) I did have a little bit of poopy bottom trouble in the pen that proved to be completely infertile this year. Nowhere else. Hmm, Anyone else notice a similar pattern? It could help diagnose the cause of the fertility problem.

Watching Silkies try to mate Large Fowl hens of different breeds was eye opening. At least you Aracuana folks don't have big, fluffy tails to worry about.

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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That's an interesting thought (in more ways than one

) I did have a little bit of poopy bottom trouble in the pen that proved to be completely infertile this year. Nowhere else. Hmm, Anyone else notice a similar pattern? It could help diagnose the cause of the fertility problem.

Watching Silkies try to mate Large Fowl hens of different breeds was eye opening. At least you Aracuana folks don't have big, fluffy tails to worry about.

You'd think....... but actually a lot of the fertility issues that we do have come from the lack of the tail bone. Araucanas can have difficulty lifting the little bit that is there covering the vent area. If it's not one thing it's another.......

 

[phasianidae]

Hello everyone! I am just dropping in to ask a question: Do spangled (as in Hamburgs) or laced Araucanas exist? Thanks.

 

[josh44]

Went to an Auction & saw a very nice pair of Large Cuckoo Araucanas

Rooster was fully tuffed & hen was Clean Faced.

They sold for $20 for the breedng pair.

 

[cashdl]

Not yet. There is a Mcgraw that is spangled, and one strain is rumpless, but I don't think it lays a blue egg. I have kicked around getting a couple of hens and trying to keep the color but introduce the blue egg gene, but I have enough projects on my plate.

Lanae

 

[phasianidae]

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Lanae

Thank you. I have McGraws and they do lay blue eggs. I am assuming you meant the Spangled Manx Rumpies - as they lay light brown eggs?

Ryan