Araucana thread anyone?

[Ray_n_Debi]

Extra Java could this be 'Daddy'? It would have been marked Bud on the egg.

 

[smoothmule]

Wow his color is stunning! His color looks like Platinum to me.

Poularde,
I try to look at the color like "what is possible within the color genes we know are present in Araucana's today". This doesn't mean there could never have been a dun gene but to my knowledge, that hasn't been done "yet" (and I've been considering it) but then it's called platinum on the color calculator when I put in the I^s/I^d so that's something that is possible??

Lavender is certainly out there so Lanae may be on to something. Hopefully, Extra Java will have some information about his background or who his breeder was (if not his owner) so it could be traced back. There still are not a lot of Lavender out there being bred that I've seen. If it can make this color/pattern, then I hope there will be more

I love dilutes, that's kind of funny since my primary "color" is black but then makes sense because the best blacks will make better dilutes as most dilutes are on black.


ETA - I posted this on the-coop and Henk stated it is probably Lavender, that he re-used the lavender "picture" for the I^s/I^d...... so we're getting closer. That would mean that some good brown/red pullets would be a good cross to him, then pullets back to the rooster for half gold birchen and half like this rooster, Lavender patterned Isabel - necked Birchen!

 

[smoothmule]

Extra Java could this be 'Daddy'? It would have been marked Bud on the egg.

What are Bud's genetics? Is he Lavender?
Love him!

 

[Extra Java]

YES!
Thank You!!! We love him and he's continuing to fill out and the colors are becoming more like Bud every day.
Now I see, thank you for the photo...that is a big help.

I was just trying to figure out who to put him with since I have so many hens.

I guess it's time to experiment.

This group is very helpful...Thanks ALL!

Extra Java could this be 'Daddy'? It would have been marked Bud on the egg.

 

[Extra Java]

Thanks for the info pictures and the link...very helpful!

I actually have some blue gold birchen chicks by my rooster, Joker, and my gold birchen hens.
I have more eggs to hatch that will be by Joker then turned Joker out and put Rudy in that pen for a while. I'm expecting there will be more. I don't blame you for wanting to make more, he is a beautiful rooster!

The chick on the left is blue gold birchen. You can see the difference between this one and the typical blue chick on the right.



Here is another one too, this one is double tufted. Just hatched today so it's not quite fluffed up yet.





I don't know if they're cockerels or pullets yet. I plan to sell most of my chicks as just started chicks, straight run.

He is lighter, all over, than what a simple blue gold birchen would be. I'd love to know what other diluter is present. I thought I could play with the color calculator and thought that S+/s+ rather than s+/s+ would work but it didn't dilute the shoulders....



I played with it some more and what I got looked pretty close to this roosters color (I think)
ER/ER Bl/bl+ S/s+

Reading up on the lemon blue, you should be able to use gold birchens. Blue birchens will give you splash birchens but splash birchens to gold birchens will work too. The trick to getting the hackles so light seems to be the rooster being a gold/silver split.


https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/608357/lemon-blue-saddle-color-genetics

 

[chickenlover89]

Hi all, my araucana hen became broody today, and I was wondering if she will be a good broody hen? We don't have a rooster, or hatching eggs, so I am just wondering if she will stay like that for a while, or will she stop being broody quickly. Thanks!

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

YES!
Thank You!!! We love him and he's continuing to fill out and the colors are becoming more like Bud every day.
Now I see, thank you for the photo...that is a big help.

I was just trying to figure out who to put him with since I have so many hens.

I guess it's time to experiment.

This group is very helpful...Thanks ALL!


Quote: Extra Java,
I would put him with a black hen. Even if she has red/gold leakage. I would then breed his daughters back to him. There may be Lavender in him, but I believe it is chocolate/dun/khaki. It is inhibiting the black. He recreates his color in his offspring when bred to black or wild type BBR with only 1 generation.
I am not very good with genetics. I only learn in areas I am interested in so I could be way off. Several times I went to sell him but he is so beautiful in the sunlight he looks like gold. He is so friendly thus his name Buddy and he my husbands favorite.

 

[mstricer]

Are there bantams in this breed, I have someone asking me?

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

Yes, there are bantams. But the large fowl of these only weight 4-5 pounds.

 

[mstricer]

That's what I thought that the LF didn't get that big. Thanks