Araucana thread anyone?

[enola]

Hatching Araucanas and then raising them is no different than any other breed. Just be careful when buying your hatching eggs. If two tufted chickens are used when breeding, up to 50% of the chicks will die before hatching as a result of the tufting gene. Ask the breeder if there are tufted and clean faced birds in the breeding flock.

 

[oolyboolu]

Thanks Enola! I will look into that

 

[Shaffer]

My advice is buy chicks or started or grown stock. These are a very difficult breed.

 

[enola]

My advice is buy chicks or started or grown stock.  These are a very difficult breed.  

Exactly why I breed clean faced Araucana. I don't have any intentions of showing, so my chickens don't need tufts. I don't have to contend with the horrible hatch rates caused by breeding tuft to tuft matings. And best of all, I don't have to try to figure out what to do with the chicks that do hatch but have all of the different ugly tufts that happen.

 

[kristin07035]

Yey 1st egg since October

 

[ochochicas]

I'd love to find someone in my area that sells non-tufted hatching eggs.

One of my pullets just started laying and her eggs are green. I was really hoping for more of a blue. Yesterday was her 5th egg and it was a Jumbo at 76 grams! I candled it and it only has one yolk. The pullet is very nice and has adopted the younger 3-month-old pullets. She brings them in the coop at night and stays with them until they roost. Very cute!

 

[oolyboolu]

My advice is buy chicks or started or grown stock.  These are a very difficult breed.  

Exactly why I breed clean faced Araucana. I don't have any intentions of showing, so my chickens don't need tufts. I don't have to contend with the horrible hatch rates caused by breeding tuft to tuft matings. And best of all, I don't have to try to figure out what to do with the chicks that do hatch but have all of the different ugly tufts that happen.

Thanks guys in any case it looks like I'll have more time to do my homework, as our province seems to be on lockdown cuz of avian flu

. From what I understand no buying or selling of small farm eggs/chicks/chickens :/ lame-o

 

[draye]

Is there someone in Arkansas preferably central area of Arkansas that raises Araucsna's?

I am looking for a cull from someone ( cull meaning a tailed Araucana), rooster but would consider a pullet or two. Reasonably priced, they are for my EE project.

 

[Brada Puhi]

I like tufts a lot

 

[enola]

Thanks guys in any case it looks like I'll have more time to do my homework, as our province seems to be on lockdown cuz of avian flu

. From what I understand no buying or selling of small farm eggs/chicks/chickens :/ lame-o

Please do not consider the quarantine area lockdowns as being lame. Avian flu is not a disease to be nonchalant about. If the disease spread is not contained it could be disasterous to the entire poultry industry in the USA.