Araucana thread anyone?

[cackleberrycoop]

I'm not sure I've got this right, but here's what I think I'm reading in your post; the rump bump is actually spinal bones, but they don't have tail feathers attached in that specific bird, but they would indicate more places where tail feathers could attach if they were passed on to offspring?

Hi, by the way, welcome to the thread.

 

[cashdl]

Hi Bently, first " Welcome to the group" second, thats not the rump bump I am talking about. Some of my chickens have a fluffier butt under their feathers, it causes their butt to look, for lack of a better term, like J-lo's or like they have a big butt. It also has to do with how they hold their wings.

I was holding birds and looking at behinds yesterday and noticed that some of my hens and roos have alot of underfluff that extends even up their belly, while others have almost none. The fluffier the bird the more messy of a behind they will get also.

Look at this pullet for instance. She has a definate bump on her rump ( poofy backside ) not from a partial tailbone, but from fluff. You can see her fluff stick out behind her wings. All that fluff causes her butt to look more rounded.

Here is another fluffy butted bird. Not a bird with a partial tailbone. It is very easy to tell the difference when they are day old chicks.

The above bird is the bird on the left in this pic.

I trimmed this guy up yesterday because he was almost all fluff. It was pretty ridiculous. It looks like a chicken exploded around my chair outside. There is fluff everywhere.

Look at the area below his wings, that is all just fluff.

This guy here has the perfect amount of fluff, and his backside is always neat and clean. His attitude is that he would rather die than have me clean his behind. LOL!

All of the above pictured birds are fully rumpless. Some have more fluff than others.

Lanae

 

[welasharon]

I love the rump bump too. Mine look like they have bustles. They look so sassy! I got my first egg today finally! Blue greenish and gorgeous.
sharon

 

[RioLindoAz]

Whats the difference between single and double tuffed?

Thanks.

 

[cackleberrycoop]

Quote:
Dbl tufted is tufts on both sides of the face. Single tufted is tufts only on one side of the face.

 

[Rumbull]

Yes, Smoothmule, I would love to get my hands on those chicks that are showing some barring. I am so far over the rural limit of 6 chickens that I just can't! I need to find a new home for the some of the other chickens but they are my 4yr olds pets... He says "thank you" to them by name every time he collects their eggs.
The blue patterned chick that I bought from you, I was sure was a boy. Thick legs, very upright posture and plenty of cockfight posturing with the other young lad. After reading Cash's comment on a boy looking pullet, I went out and took a closer look. Very pullet looking comb and no hackle or saddle feathers. I think he is a she... The boy that she postures with is roughly the same age and has very defined male feathers coming in while hers is very rounded and female looking.
In the spring I will breed her to my barred cockrel along with a blue half sister of his. Their offspring will be 75% araucana, 12.5% barred rock and 12.5% leg horn. I am very excited to see how they turn out. They will produce blue and black barred/cuckoo pullets and solid blue and black cockrels.

 

[cashdl]

Yep my cuckoo roo turned out to be a hen. She is almost 4 months old and small small small. The little roo she is with finds her facinating much to her distaste.

I just hatched two cuckoo chicks, 1 tailed pullet ( darker cuckoo coloration no yellow on head) 1 tufted rumpless roo ( lighter cuckoo coloration and large yellow spot on head). I hope the roo lives. I am in serious need of a boy cuckoo. I now have 8 cuckoo hens, 5 are double tufted, and no roos for them. Usually its the other way around so I am not really complaining.


I can hardly wait to see what next spring brings in the pens. I am giddy just thinking about it.

I have a really nice double tufted pullet ( I think, either way is great) Its solid black, even tufts, rumpless, and so far healthy. I would like it to be a roo, cause I have nice black hens to go with it but maybe next year.


Lanae

 

[smoothmule]

I've bought a black cockerel from Telah, rumpless with double tufts and the photo's show a very nice comb. She says he has a slight bit of red in the hackles but he's going to be a great addition to the black breeding pens here. I am getting the red worked out of the cockerels slowly but surely. He should arrive by tomorrow. I'll take photo's when he arrives.

I'm trying to decide whether or not to keep the rumpless/double tufted blue chick. I'll probably keep it and wait until spring unless I can find a black pullet or hen as nice as this one is to swap.

Rumbull, these chicks are not going anywhere soon, they're just too young to ship so they'll be here a while and I may keep them till spring since you never know what can happen through the winter. Surely by then I'll be able to tell if they are really barred of if it's just those weird juvenile feathers.

Hi Bentley! Welcome to the group

What is your Araucana flock like? bantam or LF? colors? I LOVE to see photo's of everyone's Araucana's.

Cathy

 

[cashdl]

My double tufted black pullet is a roo. YEAH!!! I was out taking pics and just watched him introduce himself to one of his flat mates in a very personal way. So if he lives to adulthood, I will have a really nice rumpless tufted black. On a not so happy note, we had a hard freeze last night and one of my black hens didn't make it.

Here is my black roo. He is just 4 months old and no bleed thru in the shoulders so I am hoping he will stay that way.

Lanae

 

[cashdl]

Here is the birds in my duckwing pen.

There is 4 girls and 1 boy in this pen. Two of the girls are tufted, but there tufts are super tiny. The roo is cleanfaced.


Lanae