Araucana thread anyone?

[hdowden]

looking for bantam hatching eggs if anyone has any please pm me with pics of eggs and your flock please also i know some come tailed and that some breeders use the tailed birds but i forget why yall use the tailed birds since this breed is tailless

 

[smoothmule]

Im looking to buy some hatching araucana eggs. if anyone has any to sell plz let me know ty

Shouldn't be long, my girls have just started up again. I have some in the incubator to check fertility and I'll hatch as many as I can for myself but I will have some to sell in the spring. You might check showbirdauction.com it's one of the few online sites where you can find true Araucana hatching eggs, started chicks, day olds and adults. The ad's are few and sometimes far between but more ads for them there than anywhere else I know of

 

[smoothmule]

looking for bantam hatching eggs if anyone has any please pm me with pics of eggs and your flock please also i know some come tailed and that some breeders use the tailed birds but i forget why yall use the tailed birds since this breed is tailless

I don't have bantams, I have LF but I thought I'd respond to the question about rumpless and tailed breeding. It has more to do with the breeder's preference and goals than anything. The Araucana is a breed that can have a couple of tail feathers but no tail bump (parson's nose), a partial tail, a full tail or fully rumpless. For "show" and to meet the standard of "perfection" they should be rumpless. Many breeders breed only rumpless to rumpless. Some will breed only the ones with a few tail feathers to rumpless and some have no issues breeding rumpless to fully tailed. You can breed out the tails. Takes a little time but with such a small gene pool to work with, using every available Araucana can keep diversity and the tailed ones can have a lot to offer in other areas. Even breeding rumpless to rumpless can produce some with tails, partial or stray feathers.

I started with a lot of culls and built my flock from the ground up. I have no issues using tailed but, of course, rumpless is the goal. At this time, I have only one tailed hen. She's big and she's beautiful, a single large tuft but such nice coloring, type and leg color that I will use her this year, keep her best rumpless chicks and sell her later in the year. Those chicks will carry a single tailed gene if they are rumpless. Breeding back to rumpless, I'll have rumpless chicks and some will be homozygous for rumpless and some will still carry a tail gene. There is "nothing" easy about this breed but it's so unique that it's sooo worth the extra effort to bring the breed up from being very rare to having enough breeders and a large enough gene pool that the standard of perfection will be a much easier goal.

The same goes for breeding clean faced and tufted. There's a lot to learn about the breed, if you had the time, I'd recommend reading past posts but wow, hundreds and hundreds of posts so just ask away, I'm sure there will be other readers interested too.

 

[shanshan51]

looking for bantam hatching eggs if anyone has any please pm me with pics of eggs and your flock please also i know some come tailed and that some breeders use the tailed birds but i forget why yall use the tailed birds since this breed is tailless

I just listed some on ebay this morning. They are true araucana LF

 

[Stacykins]

The chickens who hatched this year have finally decided snow is not molten lava, and are finally venturing out of the coop during the day! I adore this laddie so much. He only has a little bit of bleed in his neck feathers. Everywhere else is clean and blue!

 

[KirstenJL]

The chickens who hatched this year have finally decided snow is not molten lava, and are finally venturing out of the coop during the day! I adore this laddie so much. He only has a little bit of bleed in his neck feathers. Everywhere else is clean and blue!

He's beautiful! I finally had to spread some hay out to get mine out of the coop. They still won't put a foot in the snow however!

 

[MA Mama]

Hello all! Could this girl be entered into a show? My kids desperately want to put a chicken in a show, but we don't have show-quality birds. This Araucana is beautifully tufted, even more so than the pic shows, but is not 100% white and has yellow legs. Not tail, obviously! I don't need to WIN, I just need to not be laughed out of the show, for my kids' sake. Could she reasonably enter?

 

[Puddin Fluff]

Hello all! Could this girl be entered into a show? My kids desperately want to put a chicken in a show, but we don't have show-quality birds. This Araucana is beautifully tufted, even more so than the pic shows, but is not 100% white and has yellow legs. Not tail, obviously! I don't need to WIN, I just need to not be laughed out of the show, for my kids' sake. Could she reasonably enter?

I am not a showing expert, but I think she is beautiful! Hopefully some of the experts will chime in for you. I am not sure if the slate legs are correct for all feather colors or not. I believe it was discussed somewhere on this thread but no idea where. Her tufts are fabulous!!

 

[MA Mama]

Thanks! She was from an egg from Corderdor (sp?) from this thread - couldn't have been happier with her eggs!!!!!!! Highly recommended!

 

[beausonge]

We actually had some sunshine today so I got out our Nikon and experimented with the 55-300 lens. Took some pictures of the Araucanas

This is my red pyle pullet, Opal: She is clean faced and rumpless.





Here she is with the two wheaten bbr roosters I have (Ruben and Rudy). Both males are tufted but my Australorp pullets have picked them off of their faces. One is rumpless and one has a tail of about 4 long feathers.





Here is the rumpless male, Ruben







Here are Ruben (left) and Rudy (right) together.






Here's Opal helping out Rudy...







The sun didn't last a long time but boy did it feel good in usually soggy SW Washington state.

Vickie