Araucana thread anyone?

[BackyardCoop]

Lost our little bbr girl to a preditor yesterday

Think it was a feral cat.

I'm so sorry!

I lost my boy Ricky today to the heat.

I only had one hen and one roo. I found him with his feet up and my hen sitting by his body. When I got him out she began to call for him and has been off and on since then. I feel awful for her and he is all she has known for two years. She's lost without him. =(

 

[smoothmule]

I'm so sorry for your losses. I've had my share this year, all three were roosters.

 

[smoothmule]

White is bad. The araucana is a yellow skinned bird, so yellow legs with other colors over it. They should never have white skin which gives you white legs.

White plumage araucana, blue, and cuckoo should have yellow legs. All other colors except black should have willow (green) legs. Black should have slate legs which is black over yellow skin.


Lanae

The blue's leg color should be swarthy horn, not yellow. http://www.araucana.net/Varieties/ABA_Araucana_Varieties.htm according to the bantam standard. Whites are the only ones with yellow legs. I'm not sure what swarthy horn color is on the shanks though. It may be what they call swarthy on Serama's and that's yellow with black over the yellow but it's not a solid black so varying amounts of yellow will show through the black. They're all yellow underneath so the soles of the feet all have to be yellow.

 

[laura877]

Stacy,
I put 3 eggs in lockdown. The are due Friday or Sat.

 

[KirstenJL]

This part here is confusing to me. Both these 2 pullets are out of the roo in question who has yellow legs. Is this color not willow? What color is it then?
Not arguing just trying to understand

(If you open the picture in a new tab it'll show up full size)

Quote:
Originally Posted by MA Mama

Not all traits are simple follow Mendelian genetics with complete dominance/recessiveness so maybe the legs are inherited by some other genetic process, ie incomplete dominance, codominance, or multiple alleles, etc?
And sex linked genetics, can't forget those sometimes tricky buggers! A punnet square is only useful when a trait is simple dominant/recessive. Any more complicated, and well, it isn't a good option.

I'm not being argumentative either (plus I'm new here!), but it actually seems pretty straightforward. The pullets above could be produced if the yellow-legged roo was heterozygous (Idid+) and was crossed with a willow-legged hen (id+). That cross would produce willow and yellow-legged birds of both sexes. But only if willow is recessive to yellow.

Kirsten

 

[Stacykins]

Stacy,
I put 3 eggs in lockdown. The are due Friday or Sat.

Awesome! Hoping they all hatch for you

 

[laura877]

when should I start hearing peeping in the shell?

 

[Stacykins]

I usually only hear it when they have externally pipped. If I see a pip, I will give the incubator a few taps. Usually that stimulates the chick to give a few cheeps. And once the first one is out, it really helps the others to hatch, kind of like a chain reaction!

 

[laura877]

Stacy,
I think the mottled one is going to be a rooster. Its comb is getting bright pink. Its tufts are mottled too. One side is much thicker but they are bother about the same length. I wish that I could get good pics.

 

[CarolJ]

What "color" is this Araucana cockerel? I hatched him from eggs I got from an eBay auction. I love Araucanas but I don't know much about their recognized or official colors. I figure this guy is probably a mix. Right now he's the only rooster in a pen with about 15 hens. Since he's so much smaller than most of the hens, I'm not sure his mating efforts are successful - but that doesn't stop him - he is relentless in his attempts.