Araucana thread anyone?

[chickydoos]

Also what colors would i get from him and a black hen?

 

[smoothmule]

Araucana roo?



Cant seem to get a good pick of her but this is the hen. Semi rumpless. Taking a dust bath.

she lays a pretty blue egg.maybe a slight green tint. Is she araucana?

Pretty sure the roo is a blue version of the BBR. I don't see lavender at all there. The hen well, not sure she's Araucana, there aren't a lot of mottled Araucana and definitely not as good a mottled as she is. She doesn't quite look Araucana in some ways. If she is Araucana, then the mottling is awesome

 

[chickydoos]

Im not exactly sure of the difference between blue and lavender.

 

[Stacykins]

Don't worry, I understand. My first batch of shipped araucana eggs, I had 10 out of 20 hatch and 4 died shortly after. With the eggs I got from you it looks like I have 8 developing so far. Yours were packaged just like my first batch. It's a gamble.

How are your eggs doing? Have you candled to see how many are developing? Hopefully they are doing well!

 

[pebcrb]

Hi everyone, I am wondering at what age I should be able to tell the sex of my araucanas

 

[Rumbull]

The more experienced you are the quicker you can tell. Especially with your own flock. I thought I was getting pretty good at telling with my own birds, then I bought a chick form some one else. I was convinced it was a cockerel up until she was about 4 months old. I was wrong.
You look for clues and use the clues to make your decision.
1)Look at the head. The comb will be thicker on the roo chicks, and they have a more masculine look as well.
2)Look at the legs. The legs will be thicker on the roo chicks and the pullets will be thinner and dainty.
3)Watch their posturing. The young cockerels will be more upright. They hold their heads tall ever watchful. The pullets will sink their heads lower into their shoulders.
4)Look at their hackle and saddle feathers (this is much later and an experienced breeder can tell long before). The cockerels will have narrow pointed feathers and the pullets will be wider and rounded.

Any one else have observations to add.

 

[pebcrb]

The more experienced you are the quicker you can tell. Especially with your own flock. I thought I was getting pretty good at telling with my own birds, then I bought a chick form some one else. I was convinced it was a cockerel up until she was about 4 months old. I was wrong.
You look for clues and use the clues to make your decision.
1)Look at the head. The comb will be thicker on the roo chicks, and they have a more masculine look as well.
2)Look at the legs. The legs will be thicker on the roo chicks and the pullets will be thinner and dainty.
3)Watch their posturing. The young cockerels will be more upright. They hold their heads tall ever watchful. The pullets will sink their heads lower into their shoulders.
4)Look at their hackle and saddle feathers (this is much later and an experienced breeder can tell long before). The cockerels will have narrow pointed feathers and the pullets will be wider and rounded.

Any one else have observations to add.

They are 15wks and I have had other chicks that I could tell but these two are perplexing me, maybe both are pullets and that is why I am stumped physically I don't notice any differences but personality wise they are very different,the one I think is a cockerel is very pushy and will peck if threatened follows me closely and invades my space and the other suspected pullet is very mellow and keeps with the other pullet I have.

 

[Rumbull]

They are 15wks and I have had other chicks that I could tell but these two are perplexing me, maybe both are pullets and that is why I am stumped

physically I don't notice any differences but personality wise they are very different,the one I think is a cockerel is very pushy and will peck if threatened follows me closely and invades my space and the other suspected pullet is very mellow and keeps with the other pullet I have.

Got any pictures?? We may be able to help.

 

[pebcrb]

Got any pictures?? We may be able to help.

I will get some when I tuck them in

 

[smoothmule]

Im not exactly sure of the difference between blue and lavender.

They are just two totally different genes, both dilute black to a lighter color. Blue is often laced but not always. They're just different colors.

Here is a lavender, you can see how light and how there is no lacing. The neck is the same as the rest of the body. This gene is recessive, you breed to a black that doesn't have the gene and all the chicks will be black. Lavender to lavender will produce all lavender chicks
http://youngspatch.webs.com/chicken breeds/aracauna rooster.jpg

This is a blue color. You breed blue to plain black and you'll get 50/50 blues and blacks. And, if you breed blue to blue, you'll get blue, black and splash colors.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/53940_new_blue_rooster.jpg