Araucana thread anyone?

[cashdl]

Hi Ann,

I love her coloring. It was your bird I was talking about as you know. Also Ann Cushing has a similar colored bird in her flock. It is in one of her videos on her web page.

I have a columbian hen ( not araucana), she is an easter egger and lays a blue egg and has no beard. I have been kicking around the idea of putting her in with my duckwing roo ( Brad ) and seeing what I get. I also have a splash roo and a BBR roo, so I can give her a few boyfriends over the next little while.

 

[Slater1995]

Hi all,

I am really trying to find some true Araucana's and it is just hard. I ordered some, but they have rumps. They are really pretty birds, but not true araucana's.

Is anyone feeling generous enough to send me some eggs? I have button quail eggs that I would be happy to send in return and i will have courtnix quail eggs in a few weeks.

Thanks,
Teresa

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I have sold my 2 flocks but they are still here eating and drinking so if you would like eggs from my rumpless, tufted birds I could collect them up and send you out some. You can see what I have had on my website. I have been hatching out this spring and getting mostly tufted chicks. I have 2 roos in different pens, a bilateral tufted and non tufted one along with tufted and non tufted girls.

 

[rancher hicks]

I thought Araucnas' only laid blue eggs, or is that only Ameraucnas.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Araucanas DO only lay blue eggs. I have seen some lighten to almost white before they molt but they are very blue in most cases. I have had one to lay a green egg but she produced very typy kids so I kept her in my laying flock and her daughters lay a more blue egg.
Ameraucanas lay a blue egg as well.

 

[Birch Run Farm]

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Araucanas can have tails, partial tails and also be rumpless. That said, hatchery chicks are easter eggers and probably have beards and muffs which araucanas do not have. Araucanas also can lay eggs of just about any color but blue is most desireable.

 

[cashdl]

Blue eggs are most desirable, however green eggs are common. I have both in my flock. It depends on what a breeder is breeding for if egg color is most important than they only hatch from blue eggs, but maybe a really good looking hen that matches a breeders ideal lays a green egg. Sometimes they will breed that hen to try to continue her looks.

I have good leg color, no tails in my chicks, and having a hard time with tufts, so I am not concerned about wether the eggs are green or blue. But that is my own personal breeding issue. I have really nice blue hens clean faced that lay big green eggs ( thank you Ann ) and they are in a pen with a georgous BBR roo, perfect balanced bi-lateral tufts, hideous huge comb, and I want tufts, I will work on the comb and egg color later. I do have a non balanced bi-lateral tufted hen in the same pen, and she lays a really nice blue egg. So I will see what I get.

Lanae

 

[Goose and Fig]

My banty araucanas lay lovely blue-teal eggs. Big for bantams, but they hardly ever lay. One of them is also an egg eater- so if I find one I have to grab it right away.

I finally got 2 splash girls (thanks Jenski!) to add to my banty EE project. They took a hiatus from laying- either because of the move or the heat. I don't blame them, but I hope they start up again by fall so I can try to hatch some.

 

[cashdl]

I have two banty araucana's also and they lay a really pretty blue egg but one only lays every other day or so, and the other one lays one every couple of weeks. They are both just over two years old. I had them in a breeding pen but wasn't worth the loss of space, so they are going out in general population. Its probably what they want anyway.

Lanae

 

[megcpat]

My three banty Araucanas began by laying huge, GORGEOUS blue eggs, but very, very quickly they lost all the color and now all three of them lay white eggs. I know that all colored eggs lighten over time, but this is by far the quickest that I have ever had eggs lighten - and the most completely that they have lost all color. I've assumed it had something to do with the eggs being so ridiculously huge for banty eggs, (the bigger the egg the more pigment required to cover it). Just a guess on my part. Anyhow, sort of can't wait for them to molt and start their cycles over again so that I can see that egg color again!
I have 12 araucana chicks in the mail and on their way here from Ann Charles - finally. I'm a bit nervous about the heat so I'm trying not to get my hopes up too high that they all make it here alive. I ordered months ago and expected them to be in the mail a while ago before the heat set in.