Araucana thread anyone?

[Stacykins]

I am guessing that this one will grow up to look like the gal pictured below, who was likely her mother. Very certain the chick is a girl! And the red breast is already coming in

 

[laura877]

Good. What color would you call it? I have two that color. Two that are barred and one that is muted gray, blue, that sure what I would call it.

 

[cashdl]

Good. What color would you call it? I have two that color. Two that are barred and one that is muted gray, blue, that sure what I would call it.

That color is duckwing, and while there is technically no golden duckwing hens genetically, phenotypically it would be a golden duckwing. The mom is a duckwing with extra melanizers and autosomal red which shows in the really dark chest.

Lanae

 

[Kassaundra]

I have 3 araucana chicks two are brown chipmunk looking are tufted and rumpless, the one white/and black is rumpless but not tufted.

Here are a couple of pics


This is Valasa, she is rumpless but not tufted. Is she silver duckwing?




This is the lighter of the two brown chipmunks. She is tufted and rumpless, can you tell yet what color she it?

I can't find a recent pic of the darker one it is harder to get a pic of much more camera shy. It is getting some pretty bright colored feathers that are starting to worry me. It is also double tufted and rumpless, but her tufts look lop sided right now b/c someone was to jealous of her "jewelery".

 

[cashdl]

I have 3 araucana chicks two are brown chipmunk looking are tufted and rumpless, the one white/and black is rumpless but not tufted.

Here are a couple of pics


This is Valasa, she is rumpless but not tufted. Is she silver duckwing?




This is the lighter of the two brown chipmunks. She is tufted and rumpless, can you tell yet what color she it?

I can't find a recent pic of the darker one it is harder to get a pic of much more camera shy. It is getting some pretty bright colored feathers that are starting to worry me. It is also double tufted and rumpless, but her tufts look lop sided right now b/c someone was to jealous of her "jewelery".

A silver duckwing and two black breasted reds.

Lanae

 

[Kassaundra]

Thanks that is what I thought, but wasn't 100% sure.

 

[laura877]

I would like to let people know about posting pictures that you can resize them. I have noticed that when pics are posted they show up very large and very elongated. This can be changed when posting and even thru the edit feature. If anyone is interested as to know, just click on the image and it will become highlighted. I like to click on the corner so that I can shorter and make them narrower at the same time. I own my own graphics company so I know how hard it is to really see a pic clearly when its too large for the viewing area and too wide or too long. I hope no one is offended that I brought this up.

 

[cashdl]

I would like to let people know about posting pictures that you can resize them. I have noticed that when pics are posted they show up very large and very elongated. This can be changed when posting and even thru the edit feature. If anyone is interested as to know, just click on the image and it will become highlighted. I like to click on the corner so that I can shorter and make them narrower at the same time. I own my own graphics company so I know how hard it is to really see a pic clearly when its too large for the viewing area and too wide or too long. I hope no one is offended that I brought this up.

Not offended, just throwing my two cents in. I prefer the larger pics especially with the araucana, it is easier to see the fine details such as tufts, saddle and hackle feathers and other details that can be lost with smaller pics. I know it can be harder for people with slower internet to load them and that is a valid concern. The above pics are showing up perfectly on my computer however I have seen some huge ones that even bog down my computer to load.

Lanae

 

[UmmmLetMeThink]

These pics are awesome! I love Araucanas

 

[laura877]

I'm on a laptop so maybe the pics come across differently. Most of the time, the pics are so elongated that its hard to really know what you are looking at.