Araucana thread anyone?

[granites2001]

Good Posts. I love the blues as that is what I have. I am new to the breed and just learning...So I will stick to my blues for awhile...I have two rumpless, clean faced girls and a splash rumpless clean faced pullet, plus tony...He is black and bilaterally tufted with some red leakage....I was lucky enough to run into breeders who would give me a chance. I have been looking for these guys for years....I finally have my start! My goal is not to raise a bunch of birds for selling. I want to perfect what I have and branch out....My ideal would be to have my yard full of them......We don't all have to be breeders....

Lisa

 

[welasharon]

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Sharon - that first girl is a lovely blue. From her hackle feathers, she looks like she is carrying a patterning gene, which is really sort of exciting to me, as I have in mind that I need to figure out how to introduce that to my BBS line. I love the way it outlines the feathers in a darker lacing color. We need that in our blues. However, it does suggest to me that she may have other color varieties in there than blue and perhaps will not breed true. Is she large fowl or bantam, by the way? She has a really nice face.

I asked....Large Fowl they are.

 

[eggdd]

what does aov mean?

also, i always thought the bbr color to be overrated due to the pictures i saw. until now that is. i have a bbr chick, and WOW. in person, in real life, s/he is very pretty. pictures, i have decided, do not do this color justice. beautiful.

also #2, when can you start sexing araucanas? serioulsy. i have some chicks that are eight weeks old tomorrow and i have no idea as to who's a boy and who's a girl. what should i be looking at? the typical comb/wattle thing isn't working for me. i do have a couple who are feathering in slower (kind of A LOT slower) than the others. is that a true sign?

 

[cashdl]

eggdd,

AOV stands for all other varieties and is for non approved colors. I love all the duckwing colors. The BBR color just shines in the sun. I even think the hens are beautiful. I prefer the silver duckwing and gold duckwing colors but I have all three. I also love the birchen which is an AOV color.

Some can sex chicks based on color at 4 weeks. With my own chicks it takes me about 6 to 8 weeks and then every once in a while with the blacks or the blues, I am still guessing.


Lanae

 

[Illia]

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Any duckwing based or Columbian carrying chick you can sex as soon as they've got a decent amount of feathering. Solids like Blue, Black, White, - Can be sexed around 3 months old by the tiny little saddle feathers coming in or around 5 weeks old if the comb is noticeable enough. I know it can be tricky! A good small comb on a male often doesn't say "I'm a boy" until around 6 weeks, which then everyone's looks almost identical.

I always sex by color or beginnings of saddle feathers.

 

[eggdd]

so what is the trick to coloring? how do the males differ from the females?

 

[cashdl]

If you post pics we would love to take a guess. I am usually wrong but thats half the fun.

Lanae

 

[Stacykins]

I had my camera out with me this morning when I fed them some oatmeal as a treat, so I got some pics! Even when eating (and spilling!) oatmeal, it seems like they never hold still very well for a good picture, though!

"Don't put your feets in the oatmeals! That is for eating not warming toesies!"

 

[cashdl]

Stacy those birds are so pretty. I love the duckwing girl. Your splash is nice also. I think its funny how they have to stand in their food.

I finally after forever it seems, have a tufted splash roo chick. I've hatched splash's before but they have been girls or very columbian. I finally have one that looks like a splash yeah.

Lanae

 

[cackleberrycoop]

Your splash boy is wonderful! And the hen is awfully sweet as well. It's a little hard to tell on my computer screen, but is that a single tuft on her?

Nice pics.