Araucana thread anyone?

[Stacykins]

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That blue girl didn't turn out as regal when she grew up, which is a shame, because as you point out, the chick picture she held herself wonderfully! I don't have her anymore, though. Sold a few excess roos paired with a female so she was one of them.

 

[smoothmule]

Thanks for that Ann. I have hatched out a lot of yellow and near white with no stripes, I must have some wheaten in the flock then. I've wondered if my rooster, Rudy wasn't wheaten or has wheaten plus something. Some of my blue/splash chicks hatched out that color too,

What do you think of these?

this one was a typical white

what about these?

Another white.

 

[smoothmule]

What does a juvenile wheaten chick look like?

 

[Illia]

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Like the first top left chick shown in the last post

Whitish to yellow with eventual black patterened feathers budding out, then turning to the normal Wheaten color.

 

[syble]

shanshan51 I'm alot harder on cockerels then i am on hens. if its a clean faced, tailed cockerel and i have the option of a comparable rumpless clean-faced one the the tailed bird is gone. And likewise if i have a comparable tufted rumpless cockerel then the clean-faced rumpless goes.

Hens i tend to follow the same line of thing although i would consider keeping a clean-faced tailed hen if she had other good qualities and i had space. Tufts are paramount for me too, I would keep birds with tails in a heart beat if they had tufts... but that might just be my tuft envy coming out lol.
Just my 2 cents
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[shanshan51]

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Thank you for the input! It looks like one male for sure and maybe a female. The male is already pretty aggressive to the other chicks and solid white with tail. I think he may have teeny tiny tufts!

 

[syble]

congrats on the tiny tufts! that lays the ground work for bigger and better ones. I had 2 hatches of araucanas last summer. each hatch had an aggressive chick, in the first hatch it turned out to be male, the second hatch its a spunky girl lol.
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[shanshan51]

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I just can't wait for them to join the others. How old are yours before you introduce them to your breeding pens?

 

[syble]

I keep the breeders pretty much just breeders, i'll add them to the pens when their most of the way if not fully grown.

 

[Farmerboy16]

I had posted a while back about my lone blue Araucana chick-

Here is an update on this fella. I am very sure that its a he, for his comb and waddles are pinking up. Not sure if I should be happy about that or what?

He is clean-faced, but rumpless.

Please let me know what ya'll think about him, do not spare me.