Araucana thread anyone?

[Wolfpug]

Thank you for helping me understand.

 

[Ravynscroft]

Thank you for helping me understand. :cd

You are very welcome!
I have all 3 of those, Ameraucanas, Easter Eggers, and Araucanas. I love them all!

Here's a couple pics of my Araucanas...

Clean faced tailed pullet

Clean faced tailed cockerel

Clean faced rumpless pullet

 

[Wolfpug]

Thanks I miss my chickens regardless of what breed they were! Glad I joined this group, too!!

 

[Ravynscroft]

Thanks I miss my chickens regardless of what breed they were! Glad I joined this group, too!!

This is a great thread and lots of awesome people here... very glad you joined...

 

[Wolfpug]

AWESOME! They are kool looking.

 

[Ravynscroft]

AWESOME! They are kool looking.

Thank you... they are very far from correct, but I adore their unique personalities... and they have completely different voices than any other chicken I have or have heard...

 

[Sevie]

Hi. I'm an author, not a chicken owner, but one of the characters I'm writing about raises Araucana (and two other breeds, that I haven't decided on, but one has to lay brown eggs and the other white eggs.) and so I would appreciate your input to make sure the way I represent the breed and their owner is makes sense.

The story I'm writing is science fiction, so I have some license to vary from what may be typical, but I don't want to write anything and have someone who raises chickens read it and think, "No way would that happen."

Thank you!

1. Araucana sisters & - if they were both "show quality" and hatched at around the same time, would they have the same color plumage? (I want APA standard colors, i.e. White, Black Breasted Red, Golden Duckwing or Silver Duckwing. ) Would their parents have been the same color as well?

2. Mixed Color Breeding - If, for example, a White hen breeds with a Black Breasted Red Rooster, would that produce non-standard colored chicks, or is it like cats/dogs where with some breeds their litter can be a mixture of colors, some ideal and some not.

3. Sitting on eggs if the chicken embryo inside is dead - I understand approximatedly 25% of Araucana embryos die in the egg. When her other chicks hatch, might the brooding hen continue to sit on her nest eggs, and peck at those who try to coax her off? In my story a young girl (aged 5 - 8) is tasked by the villain to retrieve the bird's eggs. The villain doesn't know that the eggs have dead embryonic chicks in them. She just wants the blue eggs.

4. **Question not for the squeamish** In my story, the ruling race is made up of artificial lifeforms. They can eat eggs, but eating chickens (or any animal with a spinal cord) is lethal. An Araucana egg with a dead embryo inside is what ultimately kills the villain, but to be respectful, I don't want to publicly post anymore details than that. If you'd be willing to answer some of my questions, in this area, please let me know here, or send me a message.

Really appreciate your help!

 

[ronott1]

Hi. I'm an author, not a chicken owner, but one of the characters I'm writing about raises Araucana (and two other breeds, that I haven't decided on, but one has to lay brown eggs and the other white eggs.) and so I would appreciate your input to make sure the way I represent the breed and their owner is makes sense.

The story I'm writing is science fiction, so I have some license to vary from what may be typical, but I don't want to write anything and have someone who raises chickens read it and think, "No way would that happen."

Thank you!

1. Araucana sisters & - if they were both "show quality" and hatched at around the same time, would they have the same color plumage? (I want APA standard colors, i.e. White, Black Breasted Red, Golden Duckwing or Silver Duckwing. ) Would their parents have been the same color as well?

2. Mixed Color Breeding - If, for example, a White hen breeds with a Black Breasted Red Rooster, would that produce non-standard colored chicks, or is it like cats/dogs where with some breeds their litter can be a mixture of colors, some ideal and some not.

3. Sitting on eggs if the chicken embryo inside is dead - I understand approximatedly 25% of Araucana embryos die in the egg. When her other chicks hatch, might the brooding hen continue to sit on her nest eggs, and peck at those who try to coax her off? In my story a young girl (aged 5 - 8) is tasked by the villain to retrieve the bird's eggs. The villain doesn't know that the eggs have dead embryonic chicks in them. She just wants the blue eggs.

4. **Question not for the squeamish** In my story, the ruling race is made up of artificial lifeforms. They can eat eggs, but eating chickens (or any animal with a spinal cord) is lethal. An Araucana egg with a dead embryo inside is what ultimately kills the villain, but to be respectful, I don't want to publicly post anymore details than that. If you'd be willing to answer some of my questions, in this area, please let me know here, or send me a message.

Really appreciate your help!

Number 4 is intriguing. I think the fatal gene is expressed late in incubation, so the egg would be like balut. Embros are very noticeable by day 7 or 8 of incubation so the alien life form would likely see it--unless it was hidden by scrambling. I do not know if the spinal column is present before day 8 though. If any form of nerves can kill them, then a 2 or three day old fertile egg may work in your story.

Maybe an interesting twist would be that early developed embryos are like a drug and they die by overdosing.

Let me know if my ideas help enough to get a thanks in your acknowledgments...

 

[Sevie]

Number 4 is intriguing. I think the fatal gene is expressed late in incubation, so the egg would be like balut. Embros are very noticeable by day 7 or 8 of incubation so the alien life form would likely see it--unless it was hidden by scrambling. I do not know if the spinal column is present before day 8 though. If any form of nerves can kill them, then a 2 or three day old fertile egg may work in your story.

Maybe an interesting twist would be that early developed embryos are like a drug and they die by overdosing.

Let me know if my ideas help enough to get a thanks in your acknowledgments...

Thank you, for responding.

I'm planning on going the route of balut & scrambling.

Any input on the first 3?

 

[Ravynscroft]

Hi. I'm an author, not a chicken owner, but one of the characters I'm writing about raises Araucana (and two other breeds, that I haven't decided on, but one has to lay brown eggs and the other white eggs.) and so I would appreciate your input to make sure the way I represent the breed and their owner is makes sense. The story I'm writing is science fiction, so I have some license to vary from what may be typical, but I don't want to write anything and have someone who raises chickens read it and think, "No way would that happen." Thank you!
1. Araucana sisters & - if they were both "show quality" and hatched at around the same time, would they have the same color plumage? (I want APA standard colors, i.e. White, Black Breasted Red, Golden Duckwing or Silver Duckwing. ) Would their parents have been the same color as well?

2. Mixed Color Breeding - If, for example, a White hen breeds with a Black Breasted Red Rooster, would that produce non-standard colored chicks, or is it like cats/dogs where with some breeds their litter can be a mixture of colors, some ideal and some not.

3. Sitting on eggs if the chicken embryo inside is dead - I understand approximatedly 25% of Araucana embryos die in the egg. When her other chicks hatch, might the brooding hen continue to sit on her nest eggs, and peck at those who try to coax her off? In my story a young girl (aged 5 - 8) is tasked by the villain to retrieve the bird's eggs. The villain doesn't know that the eggs have dead embryonic chicks in them. She just wants the blue eggs.

4. **Question not for the squeamish** In my story, the ruling race is made up of artificial lifeforms. They can eat eggs, but eating chickens (or any animal with a spinal cord) is lethal. An Araucana egg with a dead embryo inside is what ultimately kills the villain, but to be respectful, I don't want to publicly post anymore details than that. If you'd be willing to answer some of my questions, in this area, please let me know here, or send me a message.

Really appreciate your help!

Q1: Yes, the sister pullets would look similar. Even with both parents being SQ though, both, one or neither could be SQ as well. But they would look like their parents, or mother depending on the color. Whites or blacks would produce white or black pullets or cockerels, but Silver Duckwing, Gold Duckw8ng and BBR have slightly different patterns for pullets and cockerels. All the pullets would look the same and all the cockerels would look the same, but they would look slightly different between the sexes. Same color and pattern, but pullets look different from the cockerels in those colors/patterns. Hope this makes sense, lol. Q2: Depends on the different colors bred together. Can explain more in PM if you wish. Q3: Depends on the hen. Araucanas are not known for being particularly broody, but some hens will abandon the unhatched eggs after the other chicks have hatched, and some need 'encouragement'. Q4: *Most* of the Araucana chicks that fail to hatch do make it long enough to be fully or mostly fully developed. It seems that sometimes the ear tufts grow internally instead of externally and that is one of the main reasons for the failure to hatch chicks. Hope this helps you and I am extremely intrigued by your story idea. Please feel free to PM me if you'd like to go over more details.