Araucana thread anyone?

[smoothmule]

OK I knew Araucana had a tendancy for broodiness, but seriously, my girl has been on imaginary eggs for at least a month and a half. What should I do? I pull her off once or twice a day, she takes a few bites, and runs back to her post. Do I just leave it alone? She's not sick, and she was wormed with the rest of them. She's not as big as she was but she's not skin and feathers. Is this normal

If you have a wire bottom cage, put her in it a while, it will cool her chest area and help her to get over the broodiness.

 

[smoothmule]

What colors do you have to breed together to get choclate. I like them.

There isn't a combination of colors to get chocolate. I created the color by using the sex linked, recessive chocolate gene from the chocolate Orpington breed. In a couple more years, my chocolate Araucana flock should be just about right. It's a project, like the lavender project was, to produce a new variety by using a breed with that color. There is also the "dun" gene but it's just as rare, you can make a chocolate looking color with dun. Dun and Chocolate together make a color called Beige. Chocolate together with Blue makes Mauve.

 

[Kassaundra]

There isn't a combination of colors to get chocolate. I created the color by using the sex linked, recessive chocolate gene from the chocolate Orpington breed. In a couple more years, my chocolate Araucana flock should be just about right. It's a project, like the lavender project was, to produce a new variety by using a breed with that color. There is also the "dun" gene but it's just as rare, you can make a chocolate looking color with dun. Dun and Chocolate together make a color called Beige. Chocolate together with Blue makes Mauve.

Seriously a mauve chicken!!!!!!! Never heard of that does it really look mauve????

 

[Kassaundra]

Is it called mauve? Anyone have pictures of that???? I tried to google it but couldn't find anything.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Sorry I am off topic but

I finally got the computer to let me upload the pic. Here are Perch's first two eggs. She has been laying daily for a week now. I hope they get a little bigger but just love having the cute little things in my egg basket!

 

[Rumbull]

It's a beautiful day! Time for pictures.
Some updates on the barred araucana. None of pullets are laying yet but should be soon.
This pullet is tufted although they get camouflaged in the photo.


Here they are picking at some fresh cut grass. Nothing like standing in the salad bar!
I love the middle pullet. She is clean faced but her barring is great and has nice round body.


A gratuitous butt shot!

 

[nicalandia]

It's a beautiful day! Time for pictures.
Some updates on the barred araucana. None of pullets are laying yet but should be soon.
This pullet is tufted although they get camouflaged in the photo.


Here they are picking at some fresh cut grass. Nothing like standing in the salad bar!
I love the middle pullet. She is clean faced but her barring is great and has nice round body.


A gratuitous butt shot!

nice, all that is need it now is black shanks...

 

[Rumbull]

nice, all that is need it now is black shanks...

Can't happen. The barring gene suppresses the pigment.

 

[nicalandia]

Can't happen. The barring gene suppresses the pigment.

not entirely correct,

the sex linked barring gene(B) is tightly close to the sex linked dermal inhibitor gene(Id), meaning they dont segregate independently 90% of the time
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3165529

this link has been broken by some cuckoo silkie breeders(link was broken thru genetic recombination during meiosis) the black skin gene needs id+(need for dermal/shank pigments) to be expressed

now its just a matter of breeding large enough numbers to break that link(300 hatching eggs) OR... finding a genetic inhibitor to supress the effects of Id(dermal inhibitor)..

so......statistically/Genetically speaking, it's possible.......

 

[Rumbull]

That is great to know!
I did a lot of online research regarding the barring gene. I have a file saved of everything I could find on it. Glad to know that it is a possibility because I love the way the willow and dark shanks look. Now that I know it has been done, I will keep trying.