Araucana thread anyone?

[cackleberrycoop]

I was never really a fan of the Silvers until I hatched out a few silver Ameraucana's from Jean Ribbeck (spelling??) eggs. What a stunning variety - so dramatic in person. I love your silver girl Lanae and really wish that I could see her in real life. Very exciting progress in your birds - so much fun to watch!

I just got my "Blue Egg Clucker" in the mail - lots of photos from the National Meet!!!!!!! Wow oh wow, some amazing birds for sure.

Cindy - what a joy to read about your experience at the show!! I can only imagine the amount of work that went into getting you, your birds, and Rob all the way out there. I am so inspired! Lots more to read and I can't wait till this evening when the kids are in bed and i can eat up the info!!!

 

[cashdl]

So I forgot to mention that two chicks hatched last night. Both from my duckwing pen. One is a pale golden colored with just faint chipmonk mark on its head. The other is the standard chipmonk color. They both hatched out of pullet eggs.

Lanae

 

[shanshan51]

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Congrats! Can't wait to see pics of your colors.

 

[eggdd]

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that'd be cool and helpful

 

[shanshan51]

Ok this is the one that really has got me. And yes he has a tail

He and the white Roo came out of the same green / blue eggs. I am thinking that I do not want to add them to my breeding pen to keep the tail out. However what would I sell them as EE's?

 

[shanshan51]

And then here are the girls who are def rumpless. They are the three browns against the wall.

 

[Farmerboy16]

The two Araucana chicks that I hatched out a few days ago are all black, rumpless, and cleanfaced. I wanted tufts!!!

But is happy that two that hatched and lived. Now my month-old blue rumpless, and cleanfaced roo will have two gals (hopefully) to be with.

It looks like that I will be breeding cleanfaced, rumpless Araucanas.

 

[shanshan51]

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Just curious of your hatch percentage. Out of 32 eggs I got 6 that hatched and 5 that lived. 3 rumpless. And maybe 2 with tiny tiny tufts.

 

[Farmerboy16]

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Just curious of your hatch percentage. Out of 32 eggs I got 6 that hatched and 5 that lived. 3 rumpless. And maybe 2 with tiny tiny tufts.

The first batch of shipped eggs- 1 out of 11 eggs hatched, 4 made to lockdown.

Tried again from the same seller- 2 out of 12 shipped eggs hatched, 6 made to lockdown.

 

[shanshan51]

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Just curious of your hatch percentage. Out of 32 eggs I got 6 that hatched and 5 that lived. 3 rumpless. And maybe 2 with tiny tiny tufts.

The first batch of shipped eggs- 1 out of 11 eggs hatched, 4 made to lockdown.

Tried again from the same seller- 2 out of 12 shipped eggs hatched, 6 made to lockdown.

Dang we have the same bad luck! I just bit the bullet and purchased ALL adult birds. I am not buying hatching eggs anymore. After $600 and little to show I was fed up. And this week I already got 4 blue eggs from my rumpless and one from my BLRW. I am hoping these will have 80-100% hatch success!

Good luck to you