Araucana thread anyone?

[syble]

unfortunately chick tuft size doesn't quite indicate adult tuft size, or at least it hasn't for me so far?

 

[laura877]

A few full body shots. .




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My avatar is actually the black one on the right in the lower pic
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[KirstenJL]

This is Oriole who is three weeks old. He/she started out with brick red and black down and now has this cool patterning on his breast with a matching tuft! Unfortunately, he has only one. Debi said he was a BBR x black. Does anyone know what color he'll be as an adult? Thanks!
Kirsten

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

I am assuming that came from my pen that I have BBR's , and BBR X Black crosses. Hoping to dilute the wild gene. But now it looks blue, I don't have any blue in that coop and so far none of the chicks I hatched had any blue in them. But very pretty anyway.

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

Maybe it is not blue. On the laptop it matters what angle I have the screen

. I think I am still seeing the wild type pattern in it. Was that the only tufted one?

 

[cashdl]

This is Oriole who is three weeks old. He/she started out with brick red and black down and now has this cool patterning on his breast with a matching tuft! Unfortunately, he has only one. Debi said he was a BBR x black. Does anyone know what color he'll be as an adult? Thanks!
Kirsten

This is a wild type with lots of melanizers. It is looking like a birchen, because of the chest lacing. But I see the wild type pattern bleeding thru on the back. If Debi hadn't said it came out of a bbr and black pen, I would suspect it was a birchen and bbr split.

Lanae

 

[KirstenJL]

Maybe it is not blue. On the laptop it matters what angle I have the screen

. I think I am still seeing the wild type pattern in it. Was that the only tufted one?

Thanks all for your replies! He's definitely not blue, but his back patterning is hard to see in real life. It took me enlarging the photo to really see it. The chest and tuft patterning is what grabbed me! His down was so solid looking, I was surprised to see patterning. I'm still not up to speed on colors/genetics, but I'm getting there. One question I have is what is wild type? I was thinking it was BBR. Also, if e+ is duckwing, and E- is black, and E/e+ is birchen-esque, what is BBR? Or is BBR considered duckwing? Thanks!

Debi, there is one other tufted chick for sure. I thought he started out with two tufts, but maybe it was just down. He's got one now. One of the other chicks might have two very tiny ones, but I don't know for sure.

All eleven that hatched are still doing well. I'm letting the hens raise them until they're tired of it! They were moved from my broody pen to the main pen last weekend and now they run the place! So much fun.

 

[cashdl]

Thanks all for your replies! He's definitely not blue, but his back patterning is hard to see in real life. It took me enlarging the photo to really see it. The chest and tuft patterning is what grabbed me! His down was so solid looking, I was surprised to see patterning. I'm still not up to speed on colors/genetics, but I'm getting there. One question I have is what is wild type? I was thinking it was BBR. Also, if e+ is duckwing, and E- is black, and E/e+ is birchen-esque, what is BBR? Or is BBR considered duckwing? Thanks!

Debi, there is one other tufted chick for sure. I thought he started out with two tufts, but maybe it was just down. He's got one now. One of the other chicks might have two very tiny ones, but I don't know for sure.

All eleven that hatched are still doing well. I'm letting the hens raise them until they're tired of it! They were moved from my broody pen to the main pen last weekend and now they run the place! So much fun.

(e+) is wild type. It can be silver duckwing, golden duckwing and Black Breasted Red. Black Breasted Red can also be based on Wheaten (ewh) and Partridge (eb) The only way to tell the difference in the 3 base colors - wild type, wheaten, and partridge in the BBR color is to look at chick down color or the adult hen colors. The roo colors are all almost identical, the typical BBR color.

Lanae

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

Quote: Males look pretty much the same; females look different. So technically a wheaten base is not BBR, nor is a partridge base.

Also E/e+ is not birchen. E^R is birchen.

 

[Stacykins]

Whooo! The Escanaba State Fair just made my day!

You know how at most fairs, there are Easter Eggers galore mislabeled as Araucanas and Ameraucanas? NOT a single one was falsely labeled! There was a single true Ameraucanas (black), and that was the only one with that on the info card. All the EEs were labeled as "non standard clean legged" fowl.