Araucana thread anyone?

[smoothmule]

I agree that Buddy is colored like that because of blue. I have a duckwing rooster with similar color on the chest but not quite as diluted as Buddy, maybe Illia can tell us what I can breed to to dilute Jokers chicks to look more like Buddy and we can develop the color more?? And what would the hens look like to work with that color?

Here is Joker - his breast is dun looking too but he produces blues. I got Joker as a young cockerel so I have no idea what color his parents were other than there is blue and duckwing color genetics here. Joker produces the nicest duckwings that I've hatched here.




I have some blue wheaten Serama's and thought I was breeding correctly for more by breeding my blue duckwing rooster to solid black hens but only got very nice solid blue pullets and the cockerels were blue duckwing with the red leakage all over the place, very messy. So, I did some reading and asking breeders who work with blue wheaten and they told me to breed that rooster back to wheaten hens to get more correctly colored blue wheaten cockerels and I'll also get some pullets that look wheaten with the black diluted a bit and some regular wheaten pullets and cockerels. At least now I know how I can easily make more solid blue pullets. This might be the reason I have gotten so many blue pullets....

If I use that thought on breeding, and if this color is simply blue duckwing, then it would make sense that I could get more blue duckwing cockerels like Joker by just breeding him to good duckwing hens. But then, there's the question of why your roosters are more diluted so there has to be something else going on to dilute it further.

Illia?? what do you think?

 

[smoothmule]

Here is Jokers chest, I thought Joker had something dun or chocolate too when I got him home and looked him over. I love the look too. He's far from standard in color but I would love to develop this color a bit more and figure out how to create them when I want.






This photo was taken a year ago when he was just coming of age. His color has deepened some. I need to take a new photo of his chest to compare. Do you have any older roosters of that color like Buddy? I just wondered if the color deepens a little when they're more mature.

 

[Illia]

To get more of that color, it's hard to say how to keep track of it because when it comes to hens, you can't see it. However chances are it will pass on to at least 50% of the boys you get out of him, so, choose wisely among the boys is my best advice. The white popping up there is probably from the pattern gene, but the brown, is some kind of excess color, like on some EE's and many Black Copper Marans breasts. If he were black instead of blue, that would be a reddish color, but with blue, it's more of a dun. I say just choose the best of his offspring, - best to breed him to black/blue hens or duckwing hens with improper coloration.

 

[cackleberrycoop]

Has anyone here shipped fewer than 15 chicks to a box? If so, how did you do it? Thanks

 

[shanshan51]

So with Araucanas if you get chicks that have traits you do not want to breed back into your flock would you then sell them as EE's? Ameraucanas?

 

[brambleberries]

If anyone in my part of the world ( SW Virginia) is interested, I have a couple of this past Summer- hatched double-tufted, rumpless black roo's available. These guys are a really nice color with no leakage and beautiful purple and green sheen to them. I like the blacks so much that I plan on putting together a breeding pen this Spring to maybe get some tufted black pullets.

I am interested! How much?

 

[Illia]

I would never, ever, ever sell them as Ameraucanas. I'd hate to lie, worse, I'd hate to increase the Am vs Ar cs EE confusion even more. People out here are bad enough to call their EE's "Anacondas."


Of the Araucanas I've sold, I always sell them as Araucanas unless they have tails and they're going to people who obviously don't know chicken breeds, I sell them as Easter Eggers.

 

[Stacykins]

I would never, ever, ever sell them as Ameraucanas. I'd hate to lie, worse, I'd hate to increase the Am vs Ar cs EE confusion even more. People out here are bad enough to call their EE's "Anacondas."


Of the Araucanas I've sold, I always sell them as Araucanas unless they have tails and they're going to people who obviously don't know chicken breeds, I sell them as Easter Eggers.

Yea, I sold a few of my extras who had tails and were cleanfaced as EEs. I don't think many of the locals would know much about Araucanas.

 

[shanshan51]

Ok EE's was my best guess too. They did come out of blue eggs so they would be a nice addition to someone who wants colored eggs.

 

[cashdl]

Puredelite,

Would you be willing to ship. A dog ate my tufted black too today. Pm me if you would.

Lanae