Araucana thread anyone?

[Brahma Chicken5000]

My pullet Bonita (single tufted) laid her first egg overnight! I opened the pop door this morning and there it was, on the floor of the coop right underneath her! Luckily I had fluffed their straw last night so it was intact. I can't tell if it is more of an ix or vii on the color card.
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Bonita:
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Congratulations Trish!
To me at least the egg color looks like ix on the color chart.

 

[chickengr]

My pullet Bonita (single tufted) laid her first egg overnight! I opened the pop door this morning and there it was, on the floor of the coop right underneath her! Luckily I had fluffed their straw last night so it was intact. I can't tell if it is more of an ix or vii on the color card.
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Bonita:
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congrats!

it is hard to understand from the colour card. ix looks like pale bluish while vii looks like blue-greenish. the egg looks blue but darker than ix. at least it is how I see it.

 

[Trish1974]

I just picked up 2 new Araucana pullets! Blue birchens! I purchased them from Jason Fishbein, the president of the Araucana Club of America. It appears both are tufted, or at least one of them has a tuft on at least one side. I could have sworn Jason said one was tufted and one was clean faced, but I see tufts on both. These aren't the greatest pictures; I was trying to give them their space as I'm sure they were freaked out from being in a box for 38 hours. The one on the right appears to have a hooked beak, but she is the one with the surprise tuft/s and has good size, which I need in my breeding program.

And they came with a surprise gift :

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

I just picked up 2 new Araucana pullets! Blue birchens! I purchased them from Jason Fishbein, the president of the Araucana Club of America. It appears both are tufted, or at least one of them has a tuft on at least one side. I could have sworn Jason said one was tufted and one was clean faced, but I see tufts on both. These aren't the greatest pictures; I was trying to give them their space as I'm sure they were freaked out from being in a box for 38 hours. The one on the right appears to have a hooked beak, but she is the one with the surprise tuft/s and has good size, which I need in my breeding program.
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And they came with a surprise gift :
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I love them!

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

From a 2007 magazine

 

[Trish1974]

Have you guys noticed that Araucanas make vocalizations that other chicken breeds don’t make?
My 2 pullets make sounds I’ve never heard from any breed ever kept since I started chicken keeping.

My new pullets make odd sounds that I've not heard from other breeds. Hard to describe... just different.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

My new pullets make odd sounds that I've not heard from other breeds. Hard to describe... just different.

Are the sounds like shrills and chirps? My pullets make those sounds.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Do you guys use leg bands, wing bands, or other methods to identify your breeders?

 

[Trish1974]

Are the sounds like shrills and chirps? My pullets make those sounds.

Yes, they are!

 

[chickengr]

Do you guys use leg bands, wing bands, or other methods to identify your breeders?

I am going to use leg bands.