Araucana thread anyone?

[cashdl]

Flowerchild,

I have a splash pullet that sounds exactly like what you are describing. Mine is double tufted, with awesome tufts, and she has rust on her chest. She came out of my blue pen, so not sure where the rest came from, but she is beautiful. I can't wait to see pics and welcome to BYC and the Araucana madness.

Sega,

If it were me I would wait a couple more days, especially if it can lift its head for a bit at a time. I would also make sure to give it vitamins, maybe a bit of honey, and see how it does.

Lanae

 

[Rumbull]

I live in Springfield.
Smoothmule, Thank you for the offer on the eggs. If I can get out to you this week, I will add your eggs to what I am collecting from my pullet. You rescently had said that you were going to be working on blues so I would love some from that pen but anything is appreciated.

 

[Chiko]

Does any hatchery in the US sell True Auracanas?

 

[Stacykins]

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Pretty much a no. All that say they sell them actually sell easter eggers. I know McMurray Hatchery is one that touts to have 'araucanas'. Really the only people you can get them from are individual breeders.

 

[Chiko]

Yeah they always mistake Auracanas, EEs, and Ameraucanas for the same bird and it's annoying

 

[Stacykins]

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I think it would be nice if hatcheries referred to their blue/green/whatever egg layers as EEs rather than sell them under them name of an established breed. That would reduce a lot of confusion. I don't think any hatchery would want to breed tufted/rumpless araucanas anyway, because of the lethality of the tufted gene, which would cut into profits. And the fact that even breeding tufted and rumpless parent stock can produced cleanfaced and/or tailed offspring, which would likely disappoint the customer when they get a box with few tufted/rumpless chicks.

 

[smoothmule]

Stacykins,
Dream on. I called most of the major hatcheries one day when I was on this kick of "trying to right a wrong" done to this breed by asking hatcheries to properly list the chicks they called Araucana/EE's and even stating they were the same thing. I got an immediate response of now way. I was actually told that people bought them as that, they knew it was wrong and they didn't care. Can you imagine??? And I "USED TO THINK" that hatcheries were a go to place for information and support when it came to chicks. They know but I think the reason they won't correct the error is that it would show them in a bad light, that they had made an error for many years and didn't correct it soooo there are still websites out there selling "Araucana's" that are multicolored, beards, muffs, tails and so on that lay all colors of eggs.

 

[Stacykins]

Oh yea, it'll definitely never happen. The hatcheries probably make money off of calling them Ameraucanas and Araucanas as well, since newbies might actually think they are getting the breed.

 

[Rumbull]

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What is eveyone else doing? This will be my first attempt with araucana eggs. If you are getting good results with this dry method, I will try it. Just curious if others are doing the same???

 

[Stacykins]

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What is eveyone else doing? This will be my first attempt with araucana eggs. If you are getting good results with this dry method, I will try it. Just curious if others are doing the same???

I used that method too when incubating araucana eggs and had good results. My eggs were shipped, and the local post office is incredibly rough with them, regardless of how well they are packed, they will nearly all have detached aircells. I know I can't win with the post office playing kickball with the package, so I did have high early losses for eggs that just didn't develop, probably because the embryo couldn't take the abuse. But I used that humidity level, and the ones that did hatch did great! No sticky/stuck chicks. I did have a few early hatchers, I think my incubator was running a degree or two high.

My incubator is a Brinsea Eco 20 with the autoturner