Araucana thread anyone?

[beausonge]

I only wanted blues and blacks, so thats why I asked them if they keep the colors separated. They would be good for anyone just wanting the breed for eggs. I felt that I would be buying a araucana easter egger rather then the typical ameraucana easter egger. I understand what you mean about the advertising, they only say some will be tufted, and they don't clearly state the colors will all be mixed. Post more pictures as they get older I would be curious how they turn out. I ordered hatching eggs from someone else. I have blacks and my rooster has a small amount of leakage, 1 hen has 1 tiny tuft, and the rest are clean faced. It's a start, I do poultry shows with my silkies so I eventually want to take Araucanas. I have b.b.s eggs in the inky now thanks to Stacy. I can't wait for some more.

I should have asked for blues and blacks and I probably would have gotten reds - LOL! One of them did lay an itsy bitsy teeny weeny egg the other day. It looks like it is going to be more green than blue, possibly leaning toward an olive shade.

 

[smoothmule]

First chick hatched from my chocolate project pen at a day old. Totally rumpless/clean faced, pea comb. I have the white skin to correct, add tufts and not sure what else, will know more when it's mature and I can see the type. Nice big chick. Hoping this one is a cockerel. Mothers are chocolate, cockerels all carry chocolate, no read leakage in any of the parents. The Araucana traits seem to be very dominant, this chocolate chick is only one quarter Araucana. I have one other chocolate that is an F1 cross hen that is chocolate with double tufts and rumpless. She's a little on the small side but her sire was a large bantam bred chocolate carrier and her sire a large fowl Araucana roo.

A chocolate cockerel will mean a lot for the project and move it along quickly to perfect it but at least 5 more generations before I feel they are perfected even if I get great looking individuals. I want them to breed true to type as well as color.

Development of a new variety is very time consuming and expensive.

Up to 3 of the chocolate chicks, so far 100% of the chicks from this crossing are chocolate but several yet to be hatched

 

[beausonge]

Up to 3 of the chocolate chicks, so far 100% of the chicks from this crossing are chocolate but several yet to be hatched

 

[imtrying]

i can't tell if this bird is has a couple of feathers for a tail or if they're just wild feathers that sticks out. Can anyone tell me?






i sat down a little plastic bowl with water in it and it got turned over so there's spilled water in the pics - - and they were taken with my iphone. not the best, but you can get an idea.

thanks.

 

[smoothmule]

i can't tell if this bird is has a couple of feathers for a tail or if they're just wild feathers that sticks out. Can anyone tell me?






i sat down a little plastic bowl with water in it and it got turned over so there's spilled water in the pics - - and they were taken with my iphone. not the best, but you can get an idea.

thanks.

They look like stray tail feathers to me. Feel his rump, is there a tail bump? or an indention? If no tail bump, he's rumpless with a few tail feathers. Sometimes, those stray feathers will get longer and then they molt and they're gone a while, then short again till they grow out. Definitely no reason not to breed him

 

[smoothmule]

Thanks, I have several more to hatch. I can't wait for each one.

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

Tufts

n more tufts

n more tufts


n tiny tufts





n sleepy tufts

n another tuft

 

[smoothmule]

Tufts

n more tufts

n more tufts


n tiny tufts





n sleepy tufts

n another tuft

Beautiful

 

[Stacykins]

Awesome. I'm probably going to get my first negative feedback from selling Araucana eggs on eBay. I only offered them for sale when I was certain my eggs had excellent fertility. In fact, today I just hatched a batch of my Araucana's eggs. I had a 90% hatch, with zero that didn't develop. The 10% that didn't hatch were dead in shell, tufted chicks that I assume suffered from the lethal gene.

The person has four eggs developing. I'm not going to lie, when I first started with Araucanas and shipped eggs, I thought it was GREAT to have four developing! I am guessing they don't feel the same way, or know how delicate/difficult it is to hatch shipped Araucana eggs.

 

[smoothmule]

All breeds have the same issues with shipped eggs, not just Araucana's. I can attest to that! You can tell them and tell them (buyers) that shipping eggs is a great risk but there are always some that are going to complain