Araucana thread anyone?

[syble]

sorry to hear that, maybe its not actually gotten, maybe just a little on the bare butted side of things? Possoms here are slobs, they leave as much of a bird as they eat.

 

[poularde]

I feel for you I lost a gorgeous boy to a opossum It was horrible He just took off the head did not eat it

What a waste

 

[Stacykins]

I hope that birds were not lost either, just some feathers! Was everybody accounted for once the sun came up?

 

[KirstenJL]

Here's something I've been working on since my first batch of Araucanas hatched on 7/22. I've been taking pictures as they mature hoping it will be useful for future hatches to predict what the mature birds will look like. I figured there might be newer people on this thread who may find it useful as well. So I hope you all like pictures! All of these birds were purchased as hatching eggs from Ray_n_Debi. This is Hawk at 3 days and 18 weeks. She's a blue, clean-faced, rumpless pullet.


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[KirstenJL]

Magpie. Black (maybe split for mottled) clean-faced rumpless pullet. She's very black visually, but looks like she might have some patterning on her feathers.

 

[KirstenJL]

Raven. Black (without melanizers apparently) clean-faced partially rumpless cockerel.

 

[KirstenJL]

Kiwi. Blue (with some gold coming in) single tufted, partially rumpless cockerel.

 

[KirstenJL]

Dove. Blue, tailed, and I thought clean-faced until today. Turns out she has a small single tuft!

 

[KirstenJL]

Sparrow. Clean-faced and rumpless. She had wild type chick down, but look how she turned out!

 

[KirstenJL]

Lark. Gold duckwing (wild type, BBR) clean-faced, partially rumpless pullet. She's the sweetest one--always underfoot!