Araucana thread anyone?

[Illia]

I say there's a 90% chance they don't even know about Araucana vs Ameraucana vs Easter Egger.

 

[cashdl]

Ann Charles asked me to post a couple of pics here and she would come take a look at them.

I wanted to show you all my mottled chicks I got from her. The question I had asked her was, If I breed the mottled roo chick to black hens what percentage of chicks would be mottled.

Here are a couple of mottled. I am keeping the more heavily mottled chick because I love his color. The other roo is going to go at some point.

I will post picks of a couple other chicks that I got from her and are keeping also.


Lanae

 

[Illia]

Mottled x Black = 0% mottled physically

Some may appear mottled when young but will grow out a solid black. Mottling is recessive, so the trick is to either breed back to the mottled or breed two splits.

Are those LF?!

 

[cashdl]

Here is a couple of pics of chicks from Ann Charles that I am keeping.

Here is the new roo in my duckwing pen. He is double tufted even though they are small. As soon as I get a decent duckwing roo I will replace this guy with him. But he is a really nice boy and good size.

Here is one of my own 3 month old pullets. She will go in the wheaten pen as soon as she is old enough. I am hoping to get a few split wheatens from her. Her mother is my wheaten hen.

I love this pullet. She is simply silver. She is bi-laterily tufted with small tufts that are just starting to come in. They look like they are going to fan back towards the back of her head.

Lanae

 

[cashdl]

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The mottleds are coming out of her black pen. She is going to post a few photos and discuss how she is getting them I believe.

Lanae

 

[welasharon]

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THat silver is just beautiful!

 

[cashdl]

Yes these are large Fowl.

Lanae

 

[Illia]

The simply silver girl is so because she carries Columbian

(takes away the normally salmon breast)

The Wheaten/BBR split is a pretty gal. Do you have any pure Wheaten/BBR's? I recall a photo of a pretty what appeared to be a split a little while ago. I say look for a BBR colored male with more straw/orange hackle than reddish or solid color. Splits and Wheatens have lighter hackle that is often more yellowy at the neck base.

 

[shanshan51]

Is there a website that any of you are familiar with that shows color patterns of the juvenile birds as they mature and get their adult coloring? I have 4 (one especially) that I can't seem to identify their color from eggs I hatched 6+ weeks ago.

 

[Illia]

Not that I can really think of - Post pics here though and we can help you out.