Araucana thread anyone?

[smoothmule]

Hatched my first chick from the dun hens this morning, definitely dun. Wow, I thought it was blue but not. Looks chocolate but far cooler in color and it's rumpless. Very nice big chick by the same cockerels I'm getting all these chocolates from.

Here are 5 chicks, a black (E), a black (Er) Araucana chicks then 2 chocolates, one much darker and like all the other chocolates so far but one is a paler chocolate (No idea why yet) and then the dun chick. I put them together so the colors would show the differences. The far left is the dun chick, middle dark chocolate next to the lighter chocolate, the E black on top and Er chick on bottom. I have 8 eggs under one of the dun hens, hoping for more dun. The dun hens will go to my double tufted/rumpless black roo next.

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

Very nice!

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

Here are a few of my birds that are heading to the first APA show of the season next month.

Dark Red Wheaten BBR pullet APA correct color
Dark Red Wheaten BBR Cock APA correct color
Golden Duckwing Cock APA correct color
Golden duckwing pullet - She will feather in closer to the correct color as she matures.
Wild type BBR pullet - non APA correct color for large fowl Araucana.
She will be shown in the AOV or All Other Varieties Category.
Wild Type BBR pullet - She will also be shown in the AOV category.

I have a few other birds headed to the show but they are dodging the camera at the moment.

Lanae

Beautiful!

 

[BDBean]

Trying to identify our rooster. . . anyone know what breed the Kellog's cereal rooster is? Not able to attach photo.

 

[imtrying]

he's a welsummer roo.

 

[Rumbull]

Here are a few of my birds that are heading to the first APA show of the season next month.

Dark Red Wheaten BBR pullet APA correct color
Dark Red Wheaten BBR Cock APA correct color
Golden Duckwing Cock APA correct

Lanae

Thanks for sharing these photos. I wish the araucana club website had more photos of correct examples. I really like the way the ameraucana club shows chick, cockerel and pullet photos of each color.

 

[smoothmule]

Thanks for sharing these photos. I wish the araucana club website had more photos of correct examples. I really like the way the ameraucana club shows chick, cockerel and pullet photos of each color.

I agree, a site update would be very nice and since there are more breeders out there now, maybe we can get some photo's to them to update those pages.

 

[Rumbull]

I have really focused on the facial features of my barred araucana when deciding where to cull. Here is a face shot of one of the cockerels that has made it through the culling thus far. He has made it far enough to start crowing and dancing for the girls. I love how red his head is! His barring is quite nice as well. If only there were big barred tufts on that red face, oh my!


This is my one black pullet that made it through also. I have several younger black pullets that I am waiting to evaluate.

She has the best tufts that I have hatched.


Here is a group photo of some of the early springs hatching that I have held onto. The cockerel in the middle is the second one that has made it through. His barring is not as crisp but his comb is tighter. He is a few weeks behind the first boy so I will see how his comb looks as he matures. He has small tufts.


I have several good blues as well. Tufted but small tufts.


This is my best candidate for a good black cockerel. No leakage yet but to early to say he will stay that way. Have my fingers crossed. Nice double tufted.

This was a good year. I am happy with my birds that will be going into next years breeding plan. I still have more weeding out to do which is a good thing. My "rejects" this year are so much better than the birds I started with several years ago.

 

[Rumbull]

Just went out to look at some of the youngsters and made two discoveries.
First, is it possible I hatched mottled chicks? I am replacing my main roo for next years breeding so I have rotated 3 roosters into the blue/black pen in hopes of getting an unrelated cockerel chick. These two chicks are black and white but not barred. I thought mottling was recessive so both the hen and roo would have to have a copy of the gene. Is that right? Does this look like mottled to you?





Second chick




Now the second discovery. Look again at this second chick again.

She has a third tuft on her/his neck!

 

[Xovan]

Will clipping wings keep these in a 7'-8' fence? I just got a black roo (Pics to come) and first time in the run he went up to the top of the coop which is about 15' so the fence would not even be an inconvenience.