Araucana thread anyone?

[cashdl]

Sorry no can do. She is going in with my BBR roo and I will see what happens. I have another one with a tail she is going in too.
Sorry about your hen.

Oh well, never hurts to try. LOL!

I have 4 wheaten based BBR roos, two double tufted and 2 cleanfaced, and I have 10 wheaten based hens and 4 of them are tufted, so I am set for the BBRs but wouldn't have minded another one. BBR in the large fowl has been the hardest struggle to get correct over the years. Either the hens are too light or too dark almost Rhode Island Red colored. This year I have 1 that is perfectly colored, two that are almost there and the rest are too dark but moving in the right direction because they are better than their mothers. It takes alot of chicks to pick the best and I don't have that luxury because the Wheaten based bbrs are the poorest layers in my experience.

Oh well onward and upward.

Lanae

 

[imtrying]

hi all:

can someone show me the proper bbr color? for both a roo and a hen. i'm so confused.

thanks, and i hope all are having a great weekend.

 

[MA Mama]

So... I had an Araucana girl lay eggs daily for maybe 1 month when she first laid at about 20 weeks, then go broody for a month and a half. That was about 3 weeks ago. She hasn't laid since. When can I expect her to lay again?

 

[Stacykins]

So... I had an Araucana girl lay eggs daily for maybe 1 month when she first laid at about 20 weeks, then go broody for a month and a half. That was about 3 weeks ago. She hasn't laid since. When can I expect her to lay again?

When she decides to start brooding...and some girls can go for months and months. You can either give her fertile eggs and let her complete her passage to motherhood (the upcoming cold weather will be fine, broodies can raise chicks in below freezing temperatures). Or you can break her. I have used a wire bottomed dog cage elevated on blocks for my broody buster. I keep them in there three days, let them go. If they go back to brooding, another three, and so on. They start laying within a week or two of being 'busted' and have gone back to roosting/normal free ranging.

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

Well new BBR coop is done. Now the waiting and hatching game to see the results

 

[KirstenJL]

When she decides to stop brooding...and some girls can go for months and months. You can either give her fertile eggs and let her complete her passage to motherhood (the upcoming cold weather will be fine, broodies can raise chicks in below freezing temperatures). Or you can break her. I have used a wire bottomed dog cage elevated on blocks for my broody buster. I keep them in there three days, let them go. If they go back to brooding, another three, and so on. They start laying within a week or two of being 'busted' and have gone back to roosting/normal free ranging.

Hi all. Back in this thread there was some discussion of Araucanas being good broodies but poor mothers. Is this a breed trait? I intend to let my broodies raise chicks, so they need to have all their instincts intact. I have a good system for separating them from the flock while they brood, so I won't have problems with other hens laying in the nests, etc., but a couple of weeks after hatching, they get turned out with the rest of the flock and the moms need to be able to keep the chicks safe. Right now I have several Orps and a Giant who are spectacular moms--they've never lost a chick, but over time I am planning to move to all Araucanas.

 

[featherz]

Hi all. Back in this thread there was some discussion of Araucanas being good broodies but poor mothers. Is this a breed trait? I intend to let my broodies raise chicks, so they need to have all their instincts intact. I have a good system for separating them from the flock while they brood, so I won't have problems with other hens laying in the nests, etc., but a couple of weeks after hatching, they get turned out with the rest of the flock and the moms need to be able to keep the chicks safe. Right now I have several Orps and a Giant who are spectacular moms--they've never lost a chick, but over time I am planning to move to all Araucanas.

Can only speak for the one I have, but she is TOO good of a broody.. I gave her large fowl eggs (only two) and she sat on top of those huge babies until she could not do it anymore... And now she is broody again! (oh, and she was in the flock the whole time).

(this is princess - her tufts are kinda misplaced with one on the top of her head lol)..

 

[poularde]

i have three Araucana hens that go broody. They have raised their babies with the flock free range. They have been great mothers. Not a single chick has been lost. I do have predators that try and they have all been very protective of their babies.

 

[KirstenJL]

Thanks for the replies! That's good news. I'm just as happy letting them raise chicks rather than doing it myself!

 

[MA Mama]

When she decides to start brooding...and some girls can go for months and months. You can either give her fertile eggs and let her complete her passage to motherhood (the upcoming cold weather will be fine, broodies can raise chicks in below freezing temperatures). Or you can break her. I have used a wire bottomed dog cage elevated on blocks for my broody buster. I keep them in there three days, let them go. If they go back to brooding, another three, and so on. They start laying within a week or two of being 'busted' and have gone back to roosting/normal free ranging.

She didn't have any eggs that she was sitting on, she was just pretending! Had I had the foresight, I would have realized I should have left them in her nest, but I collected them to eat. I did break her of being broody about 3 weeks ago after she sat for a VERY very VERY long time. But she is broken of it... and still no laying.