Araucana thread anyone?

[pebcrb]

Got any pictures?? We may be able to help.

I can post more if needed thanks

 

[chickydoos]

They are just two totally different genes, both dilute black to a lighter color.    Blue is often laced but not always.  They're just different colors.

Here is a lavender, you can see how light and how there is no lacing.   The neck is the same as the rest of the body.  This gene is recessive, you breed to a black that doesn't have the gene and all the chicks will be black.  Lavender to lavender will produce all lavender chicks
http://youngspatch.webs.com/chicken breeds/aracauna rooster.jpg

This is a blue color.  You breed blue to plain black and you'll get 50/50 blues and blacks.  And, if you breed blue to blue, you'll get blue, black and splash colors.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/53940_new_blue_rooster.jpg

Awesome! Thanks for breaking it down for me!I think i get it now! Haha

 

[cashdl]

I can post more if needed

thanks

Girls.

 

[pebcrb]

Girls.

Thanks. I have always thought roo cause of its behavior but now I am kicking myself because it is very friendly (always has been) and I don't give it any attention cause I was worried it was a roo and dangerous if I babied it?

 

[pebcrb]

Is anyone else having issues with posting pics today?

 

[pebcrb]

This is my other "araucana" I think the lady I got them from breeds Americana and araucana together, but I am not worried about true breeding just like the rumpless look since they are just pet egg layers

 

[smoothmule]

Awesome! Thanks for breaking it down for me!I think i get it now! Haha

It's a very common mistake to call a color by how it "looks". There are some light blues that could almost pass for lavender. The issues come when you try to make more of a color you like. Knowing how a particular gene works is helpful in producing more of them. If you don't have a clue what you have, you can always just breed it and the colors it produces with the color of it's mate will tell you a lot about what you have. If you had one you thought was lavender and bred it to another lavender and didn't get all lavender chicks, that tells you pretty quickly that one or both are not lavender.

One of my project colors is chocolate. There are lots of chocolate look alike colors and in the Serama's, it's rampant the way they call any color with brown tones chocolate but it won't breed right so it's a mess. I know a lot of buyers who paid good money because of color to find out it wasn't what they thought at all. The moral is simple, don't rely on any seller to tell you what they have. Educate yourself and learn the colors or at least more about the color you want to buy so you are an educated buyer. You don't have to know everything about poultry color genetics to get really familiar with a single particular color you want. The knowledge will grow from there and before you know it, the dots will connect and you find that it's not as impossible as it seems to learn how the colors work.

 

[cashdl]

This is my other "araucana" I think the lady I got them from breeds Americana and araucana together, but I am not worried about true breeding just like the rumpless look since they are just pet egg layers

I think you are correct on what she is breeding together, but that is a really nice looking bird. I love the rumples look also. Its one of the things that drew me to this breed in the beginning, besides the blue eggs of course. At first I thought I didn't like the tufts and once I had a bird with tufts, that was what I wanted. Their tufts are just so goofy looking when they are bouncing around the yard with their rumpless behinds.

Lanae

 

[pebcrb]

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I think you are correct on what she is breeding together, but that is a really nice looking bird.  I love the rumples look also.  Its one of the things that drew me to this breed in the beginning, besides the blue eggs of course.  At first I thought I didn't like the tufts and once I had a bird with tufts, that was what I wanted.  Their tufts are just so goofy looking when they are bouncing around the yard with their rumpless behinds.

Lanae

This one is bearded but my other has a single tuft.

 

[chickydoos]

 The knowledge will grow from there and before you know it, the dots will connect and you find that it's not as impossible as it seems to learn how the colors work.

Ok i will try to find out all the info i can. I like blue and lavender. So i want to know everything about both colors.can you tell me what i might get from my roo and hen? Is there a way to figure out from my hens offspring if she is true mottled araucana? Sorry for all the questions. Im just so anxious to see! I have three more ee eggs hatching in the bator now. As soon as they hatch im cleaning it and putting the eggs im gathering from the araucanas in the bator. I cant wait!