Araucana thread anyone?

[Bookmole353]

I have 4 amercauna chicken, they all were laying, then we had a couple of real cool nights, we are now getting only 1 green egg a day. We have a light that goes on around 6 am and goes off around 7 pm. Plus we put in a heat lamp that goes on at 5 a.m. and goes off at 10 a.m. I usually see them on a roost in the coop. They come out to eat and then hit the roost. They are about 9 months old. Why would they quit laying. I have 30+ chickens, I am getting upwards of 30 eggs a day. Only these Americana’s are not laying.

 

[ronott1]

I have 4 amercauna chicken, they all were laying, then we had a couple of real cool nights, we are now getting only 1 green egg a day. We have a light that goes on around 6 am and goes off around 7 pm. Plus we put in a heat lamp that goes on at 5 a.m. and goes off at 10 a.m. I usually see them on a roost in the coop. They come out to eat and then hit the roost. They are about 9 months old. Why would they quit laying. I have 30+ chickens, I am getting upwards of 30 eggs a day. Only these Americana’s are not laying.

They are not the best laying breed.

They will start up again in a month or so

 

[smoothmule]

Set up my LF Duckwing breeding pen this weekend. Not laying yet but won't be long! Three hens, all double tufted, one has a tail. Rooster is clean faced and rumpless. He has a great comb, Nice type and good sized.

 

[smoothmule]

I have some extra LF Araucana males needing their own flock. Message me with what you need. They are not standard colors

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Set up my LF Duckwing breeding pen this weekend. Not laying yet but won't be long! Three hens, all double tufted, one has a tail. Rooster is clean faced and rumpless. He has a great comb, Nice type and good sized.
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What are the advantages of using tailed birds when breeding?

 

[smoothmule]

What are the advantages of using tailed birds when breeding?

Not "advantages". But, you have to understand they are still Araucana's, just a fault, or DQ etc. You weigh the benefits that Any individual carries vs any faults. I have never had an issue breeding out tails within a couple of seasons. The reason for that is that I only breed the tailed to known homozygous rumpless. Then again to homozygous rumpless....rumpless is dominant. It's pretty simple and the tailed hen has virtually No comb or wattles which is a huge helper to correct larger combs. Her color/pattern is good, she is double tufted, correct leg color....Lots more positives than the one tail gene to deal with. I started around 15 years ago with all culls...ALL sorts of faults and they are all fixable. If this breed had a larger gene pool...I might not breed her but it's small and tight.....so any corrective breeding, especially as easy as this is to fix, is not a problem....

Not an advantage to breeding tailed....but not a problem either

edited to add: Tufts can fall into that same category. Advantages to breeding clean faced? Not particularly. I look and the Whole bird. But, tufts are an easy fix too. An Entire CF flock of hens was over one season, changed by one single good tufted rooster.....They were exceptional hens other than No tufts. Suddenly, I had more tufted than CF from the chicks of those hens to a tufted roo

 

[chickengr]

my araucana boy is 100% rumpless. his mom has a tail. he is clean faced and his mom has 2 huge tufts. I will mate him with a rumpless (huge) double tufted girl. I hope to get nice chicks from them.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

My single tufted and double tufted Black Breasted Red Araucana pullets from Ann Charles just arrived!

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Are clean faced Araucanas born without peduncles or do their peduncles never grow tufts?

 

[ronott1]

My single tufted and double tufted Black Breasted Red Araucana pullets from Ann Charles just arrived! View attachment 1632868
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