Araucana thread anyone?

[cashdl]

Hi Lisa,

Thanks for the shout out. My straight run rumpless and cleanfaced are $15.00 a chick. LOL! However the straight run rumpless and tufted are $35.00.
The cleanfaced and rumpless pullets or laying hens (dont have any hens right now) are $35.00, and the tufted and rumpless pullets start at $65.00 and go up.



Cindy,
Congratulations to both you and Rob. Impressive wins. I want to go to the araucana national, I will put it on my calendar. Now I just need to raise up a few good chicks and drag them with me.




I am kicking around turning the incubator off for the summer. Can you believe it. But I have the 90 something blue egger and araucana chicks in the baby pen, 23 more in another brooder, and I just hatched 30 this weekend. My husband looked at me yesterday and said " you need to sell some of these chicks". Talk about an obvious statement. I think I have sold the roo that is in the blue egger pen anyway, so the hens will go back to laying eggs for our eating pleasure. I hate eating araucana eggs from the breeding pens though because I look at each one like, Is this the perfectly color tufted rumpless pullet I have been dreaming about? LOL!


Lanae

 

[cashdl]

In other chicken news, I have hatched 4 chicks from Kermit Blackwoods Taft Hill Farm. He sent me two shipments of Kedu eggs and the first batch hatched this weekend. Four chicks hatched and it appears I have two Kedu Hsian which is a white skinned partridge colored bird, I have a Kedu Kedu, which is a white skinned black bird, and 1 appears to be a Kedu Cemani, which is a black skinned, black bird.

My next batch from him is set to hatch this weekend coming up. Now I will need to decide if I should break the chicks that hatch into their sub breeds for pens as they grow or keep them all together.


Lanae

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Those were my chicks in the sale. I put in a blue and 2 red/bbr bantams with decent bilateral tufts. They went for $15 and $10- hard to believe but prices were low low low on everything. The economy in this area has affected everybody. I talked to the people with the AOV LF in the open show. They were really nice. Their birds were from Lanae. I'm also selling a starter trio of tufted bantams today to a gentleman who says he's always wanted some. Perhaps our ranks are growing!! The Araucana National will be in Salem, OR the third weekend of October. Put it on your calendar!! A Northwest National is not to be missed! It will also be a double show- 2 bites at the apple for one time the bathing. That will be nice. Rob's bantam black araucana hen was Ch. AOCCL in the youth show, but my Polish beat the araucanas in the Open show for Res. Ch. AOCCL.

We really wanted the faverolles that ended up selling for $80 per chick ($160 for the barely feathered pair!). If they would have gone first for that much, we would have bought the araucanas. Maybe next time. Even if I got some tufted tailed birds, I would be in heaven, the tufted rumpless are great, but when a bird has a good tail on it and the huge tufts, it makes me smile inside

 

[cashdl]

We really wanted the faverolles that ended up selling for $80 per chick ($160 for the barely feathered pair!). If they would have gone first for that much, we would have bought the araucanas. Maybe next time. Even if I got some tufted tailed birds, I would be in heaven, the tufted rumpless are great, but when a bird has a good tail on it and the huge tufts, it makes me smile inside

Boy do I have your birds then. I have 1 poss. 2 tufted and tailed cuckoo birds, a cleanfaced and rumpless cuckoo, a tufted and rumpless except 1 tail feather cuckoo, and some other assorted cuckoos. Don't know the genders yet but am guess a couple of roos and a couple of pullets.

Lanae

 

[Rumbull]

I have had terrible fertility so far. Was trying to go au-natural but finally trimmed some rumps.
Hatched a chick last night that appears to be barred. It is black with white underbelly and what looks like a small white spot on the top of it's head. Still needs to fluff up more to be sure. No tufts but I will be very happy if it ends up barred.

 

[MA Mama]

Would anyone mind showing off their pics of one day olds so I can see what tufts look like in that early stage?

 

[cashdl]

Here are a couple of pics.



Lanae

 

[cashdl]

The first one and the 3rd ones are 1 day old and the middle one is 4 days old.


Lanae

 

[Rumbull]

Here is a pick of the chick that appears to be barred. The camera flash has washed out the color but you can see the white on the back of the head.

The chick is rumpless but no tufts that I can see.
Here is a picture of "Larry" the father.

 

[cashdl]

Larry is seriously beautiful.

Lanae