Araucana thread anyone?

[cashdl]

Here is a couple more pics. These are all my babies for a couple of generations now except the two silver duckwing pullets. They are only second generation mine.

BBR Pullet

BBR pullet heavy on the dom. white genes. I love her color

My duckwing trio

Here is another of my duckwing roo.

My BBR hen from last year. Look at those quills. I wish the rest of her feathers would come in so nice.

Lanae

 

[Illia]

I think people are really overstepping the term BBR.

But I do LOOVE the first girl; that white breast combined with the chocolate color, wow, gorgeous!

Would love to know what makes her breast white. I know how it works on a silver, but on a gold, . . . I'm stumped and intrigued.


Your Pyle girl (BBR w/dominant white) how old is she? If she's under 4 months, wow, she could possibly become a proper Pyle, but seeing the breasts on a lot of the other girls I don't think so. You've got something running around your duckwing flock and I can't point what it is.

 

[cashdl]

I have dom white running thru my duckwing stock. The pullet you think is red pyle is almost 6 months old. I don't think she is going to change alot. She has stayed that coloration since she was 2 months. Her dad is the roo below and her mom is the BBR wild type hen with the tufts pictured in the quill stage. The BBr pullet has shafting on her chest and the way the sun is hitting it makes it look white.

This guy is a dominant white roo I have.

Lanae

 

[Illia]

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You sure? Because the photo is titled splash, and, well, that's a splash cuckoo with leakage.

Compare to my splash cuckoos. . .

The other birds like the one with the white breast are carrying something else though. Dominant White replaces all black; incomplete Dominant White replaces no less than 50% of the bird's black.

The white breasted girl has something else; nothing that comes to my mind.

 

[cashdl]

Not totally sure. He does throw cuckoos like crazy but he doesn't really look like yours. Where yours have black, mine does not. He is dark red and white. My understanding is Dom white in one copy gets rid of black and affects some of the red. Two copies makes a white bird. My guy has no black and most of his red is affected. His offspring when bred to my bbr colored birds usually have no black and their red is splotchy although this pullet is the neatest color they have produced yet.

When bred to splash or blue I get crele barred and splash barred.

Lanae

 

[cashdl]

Here is one of his pullets when bred to a blue hen.

Lanae

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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No!!! No more roos for me! I already have a clean faced blue and red rooster who has managed to give me ONE chick.... He's one of my all time favorite birds that i have ever owned though, so he gets to stay, but he's the exception to the rule with regards to non-essential boys.

That photo of your duck wing trio is stunning! They are marvelous! I really do wish that I could come out myself to pick up the blues and see your other birds in person.

I got a good laugh out of the fact that the blue roos's tufts are plucked out EXCEPT for the funky chest tuft - of course. He's seems pretty darned proud of that thing. I am glad that they have do have some feathers; I have a number of girls out in my pasture right now with significantly fewer feathers on them than those in the pics that you sent me, and my bald chickens seem to be doing just fine.

 

[cashdl]

Megan,

He is really proud of his chest tuft. He guards it like nobodys business. He struts around with that thing bouncing around. So gross! LOL!! I hope you like them. They are a really nice bunch of birds. Not super friendly, just stand off ish. I am keeping a couple of blue hens, just in case I want to start up with them again. They will most likely go into my barred pen. One hen has crooked toes ( not genetic ), one is double tufted and really small. My son loves her and she is very sweet. He goes and picks her up. She grumbles at him the whole time he is holding her and then when he puts her down, she turns around nips him then runs away. Its like a game with them. Very funny to watch. The last hen I am keeping is double tufted and, I sold her once, then got her back when circumstances changed. From the moment I sold her, I was sorry I let her go, so this time she stays.

I am so excited by my duckwings. They are not perfect but they are a definate improvement on last years birds, so that is great. I have two silver hens I bought from Ann Horsman that are going into that pen also. I can't wait to start hatching their eggs next year.


Lanae

 

[Illia]

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Where? I see black on yours. Splashes have extremely random black or blue feathers on them. They don't share any patterning / rules but the fact that they're mostly white birds w/black and blue feathers. The dark red color is only a matter of how much leakage there is. My first one showed had moderate leakage, the second had minimal because it's just leakage and not a recessive gene leaking through like duckwing; also the second one had both gold and silver genes making the leakage light yellow instead of red. Dom white does not affect red.

The last statement also proves me right, as Blue x Splash = 50/50 blue and splash. Splash x Black = 100% blue. If he were half dom white, then 50% of the offspring would be mostly white and none would be blue or splash. If he were full white, all of the offspring would be white with amounts of red or gold leakage dependent on the mother.


The pullet shown from him is a Splash based BBR. Both he and the blue hen carry a hidden duckwing gene, giving 25% duckwings like her which also accounts for his excess red leakage.


Just sayin'.

 

[roysnider]

We raise large fowl BBR.

I have 8 in the incubator that are due on the 19th. This is a cool breed but hard to raise.