Araucana thread anyone?

[cashdl]

Yes a single tufted bird can produce double tufted offspring.

Lanae

 

[eggdd]

so it's a tufted, or not, kind of thing - - if there's a tuft or two, offspring can have one or two, if there is not a tuft, offspring will have no tufts - - - -

 

[cashdl]

so it's a tufted, or not, kind of thing - - if there's a tuft or two, offspring can have one or two, if there is not a tuft, offspring will have no tufts - - - -

Yes, A tufted parent has the opportunity to pass the tufting gene on to their offspring. How their offspring express's (sp) the tufts depends on various modifiers that can be present. Tufting modifiers are not well know.

I had a beautiful double tufted Birchen Rooster that passed his tufts around like they were candy, however only 1 of his offspring had nice full even tufts. The rest had tiny barely there tufts. I can attribute that to the hens he was with. The nicely tufted offspring came out of a cleanfaced black hen that has always given me nicely tufted chicks when paired with a tufted roo. The other hens were all cleanfaced also. I kept one roo from this breeding pen and I have him in a pen with two tufted hens and two cleanfaced hens. He does not have nice tufts. You can see them but they are tiny. Most of the chicks I am hatching out of that pen are double tufted with big bouncy tufts. None of the birds in the pen have nice tufts. I am easily getting 50% tufted out of that pen.

If a bird does not have tufts it cannot pass the gene on.

Lanae

 

[Meara]

Is anyone here in the U.S. breeding British standard Araucanas? I've been hunting around trying to find out and figured this was a good place to ask

 

[Illia]

No but I have blue laying EE's who look like british Araucanas

 

[coberdor]

what all colors do you have, coberdor?

I have blues, blue cuckoo, BBR, wild type, buff, Pyle, gold duckwings, I have one hen who is almost lavender. I have them in mixed pens. Some of my roosters that are splash produce cuckoo birds too. I'd love to get more of the Pyle. I only have one hen. Illia, would my BBR roo be the best to breed to her to get more of the Pyle? He's currently in my EE pen, because he's a big robust boy and I thought he'd add nice color to my EEs.

 

[Meara]

No but I have blue laying EE's who look like british Araucanas

With crests? I seem to recall you had a project going to create crested EE. Pictures?

 

[Illia]

No, my goal isn't actually to get crested EE, my first and some of my second gens just simply are though.





BBR, yes, is the best for a Pyle bird. (assuming he's the wildtype duckwing, not wheaten)

 

[eggdd]

I have blues, blue cuckoo, BBR, wild type, buff, Pyle, gold duckwings, I have one hen who is almost lavender. I have them in mixed pens.
Some of my roosters that are splash produce cuckoo birds too.
I'd love to get more of the Pyle. I only have one hen.
Illia, would my BBR roo be the best to breed to her to get more of the Pyle? He's currently in my EE pen, because he's a big robust boy and I thought he'd add nice color to my EEs.

what color is pyle? i don't think i've ever seen that.

 

[cashdl]

This weekends hatch is over WHEW! We have been doing spring cleaning here ( cleaning couches and carpets) and I didn't have time to look in the door of the hatcher much so imagine my surprise when I opened the hatcher this morning and in the BBR tray were two pure wheaten chicks. One is double tufted and one is cleanfaced. Here hoping for both girls, hopefully not both boys. Either way proof that my birds are at least split for wheaten. I would love to have a large fowl wheaten to take to the fall poultry shows. There is usually quite a few Bantam BBRs at the shows thanks to Karen Liguori and her georgous birds but they are based on wild type per ABA standard not the wheaten per APA standard.

Lanae