Araucana thread anyone?

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Ksane said:
Hey Kass! That would suck for you, you don't want boys, right? If it, in fact, is there'll be lots of people who would want a tufted & rumpless BBR boy! That's the rooster I got from Joe I love so much.
I'm anxious to see pics. How old is he?
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Around 5-6 weeks I think. I got him one month ago and he was really young then. If my waterboarding of Oreo doesn't continue to work, I may have a need for a blue egg laying genes in a male. Yes I figured if I don't keep him he wouldn't be hard to find a home for, Joes birds are nice and should be easy to rehome, even a boy. lol
 
laura877 said:
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.
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Sometimes it's the settings on your computer, they're fine on mine too but then my monitor (desktop) is the widescreen and that may have something to do with it too. I know when I switched to this new monitor, my old photo's were all screwy looking. They're fine now but it was settings that determined how I viewed the photo's

Hope that helps, I'm sorry that I can't remember how I fixed it to help you but it's been a few years since I got this monitor.
 
I had such a nice evening last night. I spent probably an hour out in the grow out coop just watching. There seems to be a lot more chicks in there now but it's just that they're all getting so big, most are doubled in sized since I put them out there. I have a couple of pullets that could lay soon but nothing yet. This is the first year I've had a grow out pen and didn't let the young ones grow up in the pen with the layers and roosters. I'm wondering if they won't take longer to mature? and if the pullets won't be larger and healthier for not having to go through being chased by roosters long before they're mature enough to breed?

Either way, I'm loving having this extra pen for the young ones, even though I do still miss the white flock I worked so hard on. They're with the sweetest older couple who had never even had chickens before and decided the Araucana was the only breed they wanted. They have been hatching and loving having them.

My chocolate pen went from CJ and 2 hens to CJ and 6 hens so I'm hoping to hatch more chocolate pullets soon. Many of the chicks will still be by the black and the birchen roosters in the pen and there are more yet to hatch of those. A very nice, fully rumpless black chick hatched this morning, another pipped and more to follow. My hatches are so staggered now. It has been so hot that they were nearly as hot as in the incubator when I picked them up every evening after work and I was afraid to let them cool down and keep till I had a dozen at a time to set. So, they're hatching a few at a time but it's working okay.

Another hot day in the Ozarks today and still no rain but hanging in there.

Cathy
 
Cathy,
I'm in Mich. here and we were supposed to get thunderstorms yesterday. then we were told today. Still nothing. I'm going to have to start giving horses awayas there is no pasture.
 
Rain, what is rain? Same thing was supposed to happen up here too, Laura. But we got nothing. Everything is so dry. All the rain just seems to miss the area. There can be a huge mass on the weather doppler making a beeline for us, then it'll part and go around. I am surprised we got one hay crop, and there is no way there will be a second. There will be more fires here in the UP. It is inevitable, considering there is no moisture in the soil or air.

So, on the subject of Araucanas. That mottled chick I have is turning out to be a boy. But I think I will keep him even though I only want two roosters at a time, max. Either I will make a breeding pen (been meaning to do that anyway) soon, or sell my splash rooster. I really am interesting in finding out which hen is a carrier for the mottled gene. So I'd have to make sure he is the only rooster with access to the hens. It'll be a bit of line breeding, but I will be sure to introduce new blood once I figure out who it is.
 
This gal of mine, she is always angry while she is broody. Anything makes her start screeching. So when I put a camera near her, of course she was unhappy. But I did not touch her, just talked to her.
 
Ksane said:
THAT is hilarious! I wouldn't cross that girl in a dark coop for any amount of money lol!
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Oh heck no! ME EITHER! Lmao, great video!
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Here is the pic of the darker one, on the right, the lighter one is on the left. So what do you think is it a boy (the darker one on the rt)???

 

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