Araucana thread anyone?

[Ksane]

Looks like a wheaten chick to me. No stripes on the back? no eye stripe, pale creamy white. Pullet?
Lanae is working on Wheaten, so she can tell you better.

Thanks for the answer. Here's her back.I'd have thought Wheaten also except after looking at the Wheaten pics here it's way too light. I love the color whatever it is and it's one of my favorite chicks.

 

[cashdl]

Thanks for the answer. Here's her back.I'd have thought Wheaten also except after looking at the Wheaten pics here it's way too light. I love the color whatever it is and it's one of my favorite chicks.

Two possibilities rear there head for me. It has chipmonk strips so that tells me wild type but is super light, so possibly a duckwing splash. I have had those and they were similar looking and feathered in the same. It is also feathering in as you would expect a wheaten to, and it has no eye stripe but is way to light for the standard wheaten or the araucana wheaten, so it could be a wheatenXwild type split with blue in the mix.

Can't wait to see it as an adult.

Lanae

 

[Ksane]

Well that would be a beautiful color in my opinion I hope you're right. This one had been pipped for 24 hrs and just wasn't making it out of the shell so it was the one I helped just a little bit. I chipped about 1/3 of the shell away and wrapped it up in a warm wet paper towel. When I checked 10 min later she was out and peeping and trucking around the incubator.
So this one is special.

 

[Stacykins]

Well that would be a beautiful color in my opinion I hope you're right. This one had been pipped for 24 hrs and just wasn't making it out of the shell so it was the one I helped just a little bit. I chipped about 1/3 of the shell away and wrapped it up in a warm wet paper towel. When I checked 10 min later she was out and peeping and trucking around the incubator.
So this one is special.

Aww! Sometimes they just need a little bit of help and they are golden!

 

[nicalandia]

some pic of progress on the Cuckoo/Barred Ameraucana progect(birds are not mine but a friends who is involved on the progect, I´m just assisting on genetics)



edit.. sorry I thought I was posting on the Ameraucana thread... but this could also be help the Cuckoo/Barred Araucana progect

 

[laura877]

I lost one of my favorite chicks that I got from Stacy. I fed in the morning and didn't notice anything strange but then again wasn't looking the 10 x 12 stall all over. In the evening there was the little blue splash laying dead in the corner and they always huddle and sleep in. I don't know if it was there in the morning or not. 18 mutts chicks with the 13 Araucanas and it had to be an ari's.

Trying to take pics of them all as they progress and grow but its so hard all by myself. I know that I have 8 blacks, at least 3 are double tufted. One has almost perfectly matched tufts that curl like like someone put a curling iron on them. I have one black mottled. I think that one is double tufted. I have a bunch of wild looking ones that I don't know what they will turn out to be but they are so much bigger. I told Stacy that they look like someone blew them up with an air compressor. They are big and round. I'm trying to get pics but its so hard by myself as I keep them in a barn stall and to take them out into the daylight is risky. I would hate to have one jump out of my hand and take off.

I go down to tuck them in at night and they are like puppies. Most have to come over and just hang with me. I think they are even hoping tha tI pick them up because when I do, they just cuddle close to my chest. When I start petting them, they just look up at me, stretching their necks for me to rub them.

 

[laura877]

I am going to insert a video as soon as I download it. No one would probably believe me what just happened unless you see it for yourself. I go down to tuck the babies in for the night and do my usually of sitting on the milk crate in the stall and feeding them some cracked corn out of my hand. The black mottled one has become a character. AS usual it comes over and stands at my feet, I pick it up and put it on my shoulder. It sits there for a few moments then flies down. Tonight though, it turns around and runs right back to me, pushing all the overs out of the way, and gets into my cupped hand. I put it back on my shoulder, it sits, then flies down and runs back to get in my hand. It did it so many times, that I took a video of it. So funny.

 

[Stacykins]

How is the mottled chick turning out? Because a broody of mine has an obvious sibling in tow! Even if this chick turns out to be a cockerel, I am definitely keeping it!



These are the newest three chicks here. Two chipmunky type chicks and one (splash?) type chick

 

[caj1985]

All,

I need some help. I have eggs that just hatched. They are beautiful. However, I have one problem. My chick that hatched from the egg marked as white Araucana has both feet curled. One is really bad; the other isn't quite as bad. I am afraid if I try to save it that it will cause some bad genetics/problems down the road.

1. Will it cause issues?
2. If so, what is the best method of culling?

Thanks for the help.
Crystal

 

[laura877]

Which one was broody. I thought I saw all your girls and didn't see a chick with them. Nice set of tufts on that one. The mottled one is a character. I enter the stall, it mobs me. I was in the stall today putting up some hardward cloth with zip ties on the front of the stall. I'd drop a zip tie and that little stinker would run over and grab it before I could get it. I keep telling people these birds are like puppies. It looks to be double tufted but they are really small. I can't tell yet what sex they are going to be. It seems there are 5 blacks, 1 possibly 2 mottled, and then 5 wild types. The wild ones have two different patterns. Some have the patterns of my mutt chickens that grew up to be gold duckwings. Some of the others I am guessing are going to be Cuckoos.