Araucana thread anyone?

[syble]

Hi Syble,

Did you still want Garys ebay name.

Lanae

na, i'm good, this time there was only him and someone selling crosses... the last time i remember seeing like 6 sellers.

So hows you blue pen doing? lolha

 

[cashdl]

Thank You for the info. It is good to know.

Lanae

 

[Farmerboy16]

I just set 41 out of 44 shipped eggs from a very nice BYC member that I do not even know. Out of the blue, she asked me of I would like to try hatching some test eggs from her rumpless tufted flock, and I said sure!

I sure hope that I will have at least 5 hatch, and I will be happy!

 

[syble]

wow, i'm a little jealous! nice score! good luck and be sure to take photos!

 

[cashdl]

Congratulations to you. I am officially jealous. I dream of one day receiving such an offer. LOL!



I just posted my blue egger chicks on my local craigslist. I hope there is interest. I also posted an ad for incubation services. I figured why not. I will see if I can offset some of the cost of running my new machines year round.

So far I have hatched 1 tufted rumpless blue egger but it doesn't appear to have crest, muffs, or a beard, so am thinking I might have labeled an egg wrong, but its pretty hard to do since I mark them as I collect them out of the pen.

Below is Meep Meep. She is one of the hens in my blue egger pen. Her and her sister are identical. I have them in with a tufted rumpless roo.

 

[syble]

This image is listed in with the other araucana info pages, not even sure how/where i grabbed it, but what caught my interest is the egg in the middle, decent mint blue color, but i love the spots! how would one go about getting that? I do notice my hens on occasion dust with white, or green, but not to that look. whats the chances it could be stabilized?

 

[cashdl]

Those are eggs from Ann Cushings Araucana. She was getting some really neat egg colors. I wonder how she is doing with her Aracuana lately.

Lanae

 

[Illia]

I've got some crested, bearded, rumpless, hopefully tufted EE's in the bator cooking right now. All blue and sex-linked too.

I'm excited to see how they'll turn out. Should hatch in less than 2 weeks. No serious breeding plans, just a little experiment. But who knows, maybe I'll get so attached to a cockerel I'll keep him. Who knows.

As for the blue egg w/green spots - I fell in love with that one too when I first saw it. What you're seeing is brown paint being spattered over it, so, I don't know if you can breed for it consistently, you can for it as much as you can for spotting and speckling on dark eggs, but, the key really is to breed in some green egg layers to some blue egg layers. I'd imagine most pullets will start out spotted like that, then either will clear up or a couple may continue like that for years.

 

[coberdor]

I'm the one who sent the test eggs. I still have more. I'm getting almost 10 eggs a day between my pullets and my established pen.

I just took my bator into school to hatch eggs for the special Ed. Teacher. I'm filling it with eggs from the RIR hens that they hatched out last year, so I have all these test eggs. I'll throw some in from the established pen too. Mixed colors. I don't separate in winter.

Anyone else want some? I'd rather see them hatched than scrambled!

Just Message me.

Carmel

 

[Farmerboy16]

wow, i'm a little jealous! nice score! good luck and be sure to take photos!

Thanks, I will keep posting on how the eggs incubating. I just had to pay for the shipping.