Araucana thread anyone?

[chickenlover89]

here is a few pics of "her" comb:

 

[Kassaundra]

I think at 4.5 weeks w/ the comb that big and defined he is a boy. Sorry.

 

[chickenlover89]

that's what i was dreading

we were thinking he was a pullet because he likes to have his head down, and he is really small (our smallest chick) and he has really small legs. but i see what you mean about the comb, thanks for sharing!

 

[Ksane]

That one is kind of hard to tell. I've got 1 male with a huge red comb already that age, yours actually looks like my 2 that I'm pretty sure are males. Sucks, huh?

 

[chickenlover89]

yeah! i hate it! i can't own a rooster so i have to give him a way and he is so sweet

 

[laura877]

yeah! i hate it! i can't own a rooster so i have to give him a way and he is so sweet

Where do ou live? I can't help but hope that you are close as I tried hatching lavender eggs and didn't get one chick.

 

[chickenlover89]

Where do ou live? I can't help but hope that you are close as I tried hatching lavender eggs and didn't get one chick.

aw that's so upsetting, but i happen to live far from you, sorry

 

[laura877]

I had a fecal done on the chick that died. There was no sign of parasites, coccidia or ghardia. I then cut it open and found not much in the intestial tract from the gizzard to the butt. I was surprised at how small the gizzard was to a 6 wk old chick. I don't know my chicken anatomy very well but just before the liver and gizzard was a ballooning in the intestins. The only thing I did different was that I fed the chicks some scratch feed the night before. I had this one in a 10 x 12 stall along with 27 other 4-6 wk chicks and 4 marans about 3 months old. I'm starting to think about separating so there isn't any overcrowding soon.

On top of all this, of all the chicks I got, there was only 3 hens and 9 roos and this was one of the hens. grrr.

 

[chickenlover89]

that is smart, was it a lavender araucana chick that died?

 

[chickenlover89]

lavender araucana chicks die in their eggs a lot because the tufted gene can kill them when they are in the egg