Araucana thread anyone?

[Illia]

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Gary's blues have willow legs, mine from him have willow legs, honestly I think people should gather to a willow leg agreement, not swarthy horn, because everyone else must be willow legged. Also, how does "swarthy horn" keep yellow skin?

 

[cashdl]

I will continue to call the light pullet a girl, because I am denial. Either way it has tufts, but for now it is a girl. It is from an Ann Charles egg. I got it from a friend who hatched it. He also got a georgous white little roo that he says is a girl. It has really huge tufts. If it is a roo I will end up with it. What a shame.

They are six weeks old so soon I will have to enter the real world. If it is a roo I will just make another duckwing pen and throw some girls in.

My blue roos legs would probably be considered swarthy horn, but I have to agree with you on a willow concensus or at least like blacks, the legs can be willow to black.

 

[pips&peeps]

This one seems a little dark to be a duckwing. What do you think?

She appears silver to me. Here is a shot of a silver ameraucana:

 

[cashdl]

Jean,

Could you look at page 43 bottom of page. Illia posted a georgous duckwing hen. What color would you call her. I think of the term blue silver duckwing, but not sure that is accurate. That is the color I love. Silver duckwing and gold duckwing hens are hard for me to tell apart.

Would your silver duckwing ameraucana hen be so because her hackle feathers are silver. Then would the gold duckwing hens hackle feathers be more golden. Then you have the BBR hen. A thread on the araucana website posted that there was no visible difference between a duckwing hen and a BBR hen.



Lanae

 

[pips&peeps]

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I don't know what color she would be. She sort of has a silver color to her, but the breast color is all wrong.

Color on araucanas is one thing that really turned me off about the breed. They have been around for much longer than the ameraucana yet the standard colors aren't set. The whites, blacks and blues have so much leakage and there are breeders who haven't seperated their flock by color and are producing what I would call easter eggers. I would love to see more people join their breed club and really try to breed some real show quality birds.

There are some breeders though that have nice pure whites and blacks, they are just rare. Steve Waters is over here near me and he has some lovely birds and he has been showing a bit more near me, so we have a healthy competition going on now between our two breeds.

 

[cashdl]

I would definately be one of those you don't approve of. I prefer the silver blue duckwing (actually all duckwing colors) I do think it is important to get egg color, body type, leg color, and the correct looking beak, but I love the shafting in the duckwings. I know shame on me. I am not into the white, black, or even the blues even though I have a ton of those around. Not loving the splash's either. Sorry all.

I can't believe blue is not an APA color for araucana. They seem to be sooo easy to get. Maybe its just because I want duckwing so bad. LOL

I know another araucana breeder that has several hens colored just like Illia's and if I could steal them all I would.

Maybe I should try for that color and show them and get it approved. Yeah like I have time.

Lanae

 

[pips&peeps]

There is such a thing as a blue silver, just the black is blue and the rest of the bird is the same. I just can't wrap my head around why the standard colors haven't been nearly perfected yet.

 

[cashdl]

I don't know enough about the breed or the standards to make an informed comment. I have seen supposedly show winning birds that had bodys I thought were not pleasant looking or had what I would consider overly hooked beaks. Just things I didn't think were pretty. So the answer may be that it is difficult enought to get the birds to breed true to type , then you have to contend with color. I don't know why the aba and the apa don't have the same accepted colors though.

I had a hard time finding araucana. (Probably wasn't looking in the right places) So I bought what I could find and afford. Only one is a color I want (duckwing if no one has guessed) I only had 1 tufted bird (not duckwing) I eventually got 3 tufted roos. I just recently started seperating for color. At first I just moved hens around seeing what colors I would get. Now I have enough that I can say I have a blue pen, splash pen, duckwing pen. My BBR roo died so there went my bbr pen. The girls have been moved elsewhere.

Eventually I think I would like to get where I have several duckwing and bbr pens. Then I can start looking at shape, eyes, legs, color. And actually start working towards what I think is perfection based on what the standards say.

I have a work in progress.

Lanae

 

[josh44]

Here is cuckoo Aracauna bantam, Well he's between bantam & standard so I can make both LF or Bantam.
I am shooting to make bantams for now.
what do you think ?
I know I posted pics before, do you think it's a project woth completeing BYC ???

 

[star2525]

Cool looking bird Josh,

What cuckoo bird did you cross with the Araucana to get him?

Victoria