Araucana thread anyone?

[jeremy]

Rumbull - I love that barred rooster! I have developed a strain of barred Plymouth Rock that have peacombs and lay blue/green eggs. (From crosses with what were probably what you call over there "Easter eggers) A question for the learned ladies and gents on here - if I put a Lavender Araucana rooster over the barred hens would the barred colour be dominant?

Cheers

Michael

A Lav male over Barred females will produce sex linked offspring. The males will all be Black Barred and the females will all be solid Black.

All of the resulting offspring will also be split to Lavender, breed the Black barred cockerels to their solid Black sisters and you should end up with a percentage of Lavender Barred chicks.

 

[Stacykins]

Stacykins, are some of the chicks pictured from Ramey eggs?

They're all chicks from Gary Ramey's flock. I didn't have any other chicken eggs in the 'bator at the time

 

[cackleberrycoop]

Of my Gary Ramey eggs, it looks like 1 will make it to lockdown. All of the aircells were really badly damaged. Of Carmels eggs, 2 appear to still be good but the aircells are huge and misshapen, so not sure how that is going to affect things. Gotta love the Araucana breed. LOL! One of the most frustrating creatures from start to finish it seems.


Lanae

Just threw out every one of my Araucana eggs that were in the incubator - ARRRGGG!!!!! Not a single one was fertile - NOT ONE. Two different roosters and six different hens (I don't have eggs from my bantams in this batch). The part that really has me scratching my head is that they were from the hens right after I put everyone into their breeding pens, so the hens should have been filled up on sperm from the other non-Araucana roosters as well - they've been running around with a total of 15 boys for months now. So, what's up with my girls that they are not fertile? All of the other breed eggs that I have in there are growing and hatching like CRAZY so It's not the incubator or food or handling. Last year was so pathetic, I really was hoping to improve my Araucana hatch numbers this year.

Pleeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaase let me hatch out some Araucana this year!!!!


Anyhow, that long self pitying rant is just to say that I empathize with you Lanae.

 

[shanshan51]

Photos done yesterday to measure chick progress. Here is Einstein and the one with no name at approx two weeks.

 

[cackleberrycoop]

Bless his little heart - Einstein has got to be the goofiest looking chick!! Wow is he cute!

 

[Farmerboy16]

Wow, what a nice big tufts that black one has! I like him.


I just lockdown 15 eggs! Only 2 did not make it, they must have died from the heat spike, I think. Can't wait until they hatch in 3 days.

 

[coberdor]

Wow, what a nice big tufts that black one has! I like him.
I just lockdown 15 eggs! Only 2 did not make it, they must have died from the heat spike, I think. Can't wait until they hatch in 3 days.

I'm so glad that many made it!

 

[shanshan51]

Bless his little heart - Einstein has got to be the goofiest looking chick!! Wow is he cute!

he is definately going through what I call a "fugley" stage. His brother Darwin looks the same but a greyish color

 

[syble]

Wow, what a nice big tufts that black one has! I like him.

I just lockdown 15 eggs! Only 2 did not make it, they must have died from the heat spike, I think. Can't wait until they hatch in 3 days.

15 made it?! great job, i'd love to be half as lucky as that, fingers crossed for you and a good hatch! Remember we love pictures!

 

[Illia]

Nice tufts on Einstein!!