Araucana thread anyone?

[farmerChef]

Take your rumpless rooster to your tailed hen.  You will get as much as 50% rumpless with that breeding.  You may get less, but you probably wont get a higher percentage.


Lanae

Im going to put the part tailed rooster with a few EEs, he has a beard anyways. He is Araucana/EE, the other is an Araucana.

 

[beausonge]

Ok All, There are 321 members of the facebook group. I have no clue how many people are actively members of this group.

 Do you know how many members of the Araucana Club there are. Only 143. Really people! And I would say that 1/2 of the Club members are not members of either of our forums. I think all of us are a member of the facebook forum and this BYC forum because we love the Araucana and wish to promote it and make it better. This truly can only be done with cooperation and working together. Even if you are not living in the US, you can benefit from being a member.

1 way is the quarterly newsletter that the Araucana Club puts out. The newest newsletter had an article regarding the Blue Egshell gene being identified. That has bearing for all of us. There are show reports in each one along with pictures of the show birds, so we can keep track of what is winning and how we can better improve our birds. There was a wonderful article regarding Araucanas in Europe in theis newsletter. How exciting is that to be able to see and meet thru the written word, our compatriots in other countries. There is a truly funny article from Cindy Smith that I believe whether we want to admit it or not accurately describes all of us right down to the "unsightly and flimsy looking structures cluttering up what used to be a professionally landscaped backyard with mud, chicken poop, and ugly plastic pools (for the ducks) replacing flowers and shrubbery." I am still chuckling over her descriptions, but you will need to sign up for the club to get a full copy of the article yourself, cause that's how it works. Its a benefit. Come on people we need you. Lets make our club great!

Here is the link to the Araucana Club Membership Application.  Copy and paste it into a Microsoft word document fill it out highlighting your answers in a color and then send it as an attachment in an email [email protected]   Don't forget to pay for it thru paypal by clicking the link at the top of the application before you copy and paste it.  It is only $20 for two years and with that you will get 6 copies of the newsletters as they are written. 


Lanae

 

[beausonge]

Ok All, There are 321 members of the facebook group. I have no clue how many people are actively members of this group.

 Do you know how many members of the Araucana Club there are. Only 143. Really people! And I would say that 1/2 of the Club members are not members of either of our forums. I think all of us are a member of the facebook forum and this BYC forum because we love the Araucana and wish to promote it and make it better. This truly can only be done with cooperation and working together. Even if you are not living in the US, you can benefit from being a member.

1 way is the quarterly newsletter that the Araucana Club puts out. The newest newsletter had an article regarding the Blue Egshell gene being identified. That has bearing for all of us. There are show reports in each one along with pictures of the show birds, so we can keep track of what is winning and how we can better improve our birds. There was a wonderful article regarding Araucanas in Europe in theis newsletter. How exciting is that to be able to see and meet thru the written word, our compatriots in other countries. There is a truly funny article from Cindy Smith that I believe whether we want to admit it or not accurately describes all of us right down to the "unsightly and flimsy looking structures cluttering up what used to be a professionally landscaped backyard with mud, chicken poop, and ugly plastic pools (for the ducks) replacing flowers and shrubbery." I am still chuckling over her descriptions, but you will need to sign up for the club to get a full copy of the article yourself, cause that's how it works. Its a benefit. Come on people we need you. Lets make our club great!

Here is the link to the Araucana Club Membership Application.  Copy and paste it into a Microsoft word document fill it out highlighting your answers in a color and then send it as an attachment in an email [email protected]   Don't forget to pay for it thru paypal by clicking the link at the top of the application before you copy and paste it.  It is only $20 for two years and with that you will get 6 copies of the newsletters as they are written. 


Lanae

Gotta love the iPad - I have no idea how what I did.

Anyway, I have to agree with you Lanae so I joined. I was able to pay using Paypal and I am mailing the application on Monday.



Vickie et al
Kelso, WA

 

[cashdl]

Thank you Vickie,

The other thing I forgot to mention that is a major benefit to everyone, is that each member gets a copy of the membership list when you join, and it has the contact info, the color of birds, how many birds a person is working with ( roughly) and whether they sell egg, chicks, or birds. That is a benefit to all of us. I know I use it to see who is working on the same colors I am. I am always up for a bird swap to improve my lines.


Lanae

 

[Extra Java]

Hi Lanae,

I know you have a Dickeys incubator (so do I)...Do you know if I can set eggs once a week in it? I think you have a separate hatcher though...I don't...I have to use the combo incubator/hatcher. Do you think it would work by incubating/hatching once a week? You're probably going to talk me into a hatcher.

 

[simonerol]

These are my 2 tufted chicks, daddies colors coming through, the yellow boy just like his dad a splash tufted, I thought the other one is a hen, from my red tufted hen and red roo

 

[cashdl]

Hi Lanae,

I know you have a Dickeys incubator (so do I)...Do you know if I can set eggs once a week in it? I think you have a separate hatcher though...I don't...I have to use the combo incubator/hatcher. Do you think it would work by incubating/hatching once a week? You're probably going to talk me into a hatcher.

You know you want a hatcher don't you. LOL! Just kidding. Yes you can hatch in bottom once a week just fine. What you will do is incubate at relatively no humidity and then the day before hatch raise the humidity up to around 55% for the time during hatch. Once hatch is over let the humidity drop back down.

I am always opening my incubator to candle eggs and move eggs around or add eggs and it doesn't affect my hatch rates.


Lanae

 

[cashdl]

Simonerol,

Very lovely chicks. My first instinct says you have the gender backwards, but that is a tough age to tell and I am wrong on my own birds about 50% of the time.


Lanae

 

[Extra Java]

You know you want a hatcher don't you. LOL! Just kidding. Yes you can hatch in bottom once a week just fine. What you will do is incubate at relatively no humidity and then the day before hatch raise the humidity up to around 55% for the time during hatch. Once hatch is over let the humidity drop back down.

I am always opening my incubator to candle eggs and move eggs around or add eggs and it doesn't affect my hatch rates.


Lanae

YES, I do. LOL!

Ok, thank you. The lowest I can get my humidity with both vents open is 49%. How do I lower humidity...cover the water reservoir? I don't think the pan is removable.

 

[cashdl]

YES, I do. LOL!

Ok, thank you. The lowest I can get my humidity with both vents open is 49%. How do I lower humidity...cover the water reservoir? I don't think the pan is removable.

Empty the pan. its not really removable but scoop out the water and then towel dry it. I leave mine completely dry in the incubator and then completely full in the hatcher. So I go from a natural dry state of 18% to 55% in the hatcher.

Lanae