Araucana thread anyone?

[chickengr]

Do you cross your Araucanas with Marans? (I'm assuming you have Marans from the egg in your avatar).

I like anything unusual and different so araucanas, marans and now even legbars are my favourite. my next step is olive eggers. if I don't find another british araucana hen, my ba roo will be put with marans hens.

 

[Trish1974]

So I went out to try and get some pics of the flock. They didn't turn out too good because 1.) the camera on my phone sucks and 2.) the morning sun didn't help. But I did get a video of BB feather picking Buck . She has him eaten away to just a shell of his former self. He has NO saddle or hackle feathers left, he's bald under his chin, and the feathers on his back are partially chewed off and look horrible! And he stands there and lets her do it! That's Bonita sporting her head injury scar in the foreground.

 

[chickengr]

So I went out to try and get some pics of the flock. They didn't turn out too good because 1.) the camera on my phone sucks and 2.) the morning sun didn't help. But I did get a video of BB feather picking Buck . She has him eaten away to just a shell of his former self. He has NO saddle or hackle feathers left, he's bald under his chin, and the feathers on his back are partially chewed off and look horrible! And he stands there and lets her do it! That's Bonita sporting her head injury scar in the foreground.

my marans do the same and I have just discovered they have tapeworms.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

So I went out to try and get some pics of the flock. They didn't turn out too good because 1.) the camera on my phone sucks and 2.) the morning sun didn't help. But I did get a video of BB feather picking Buck . She has him eaten away to just a shell of his former self. He has NO saddle or hackle feathers left, he's bald under his chin, and the feathers on his back are partially chewed off and look horrible! And he stands there and lets her do it! That's Bonita sporting her head injury scar in the foreground.

That’s awful that Bluebell won’t quit eating his feathers! I’d be really pissed if I paid good money for 2 Araucanas and 1 ended up being a cull bird that died and the other has a bad feather eating habit.
I’d email the breeder and tell him how disappointed you are in him and his birds and inform him that you will never source birds from him ever again.

 

[Trish1974]

my marans do the same and I have just discovered they have tapeworms.

I'm always looking at poop and have seen any tapeworm segments. I just hate that she is doing that. I'm worried he won't have enough feathers left to get him through next winter.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

@Trish1974 did you already pay for the Cuckoo Araucana hatching eggs?
If not I’d cancel the order and buy some Araucana pullets from a breeder.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

I'm always looking at poop and have seen any tapeworm segments. I just hate that she is doing that. I'm worried he won't have enough feathers left to get him through next winter.

I’d separate Bluebell from him and just incubate the eggs she’s laid so far.

 

[Trish1974]

@Trish1974 did you already pay for the Cuckoo Araucana hatching eggs?
If not I’d cancel the order and buy some Araucana pullets from a breeder.

Yep, sure did. I even told her at the beginning of last week to substitute half the cuckoo eggs for BBS &/or SDW (even though I don't care for her silver duckwings) if that would get them shipped out sooner. She said she "would work on that" but here I am 2 weeks later STILL without eggs!

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Yep, sure did. I even told her at the beginning of last week to substitute half the cuckoo eggs for BBS &/or SDW (even though I don't care for her silver duckwings) if that would get them shipped out sooner. She said she "would work on that" but here I am 2 weeks later STILL without eggs!

Tell her you want your money back or to send you 2 good pullets instead. That’s ridiculous that you’ve been waiting so long.

 

[Trish1974]

I’d separate Bluebell from him and just incubate the eggs she’s laid so far.

I was going to do that later in the summer after I got a couple hatches out of them. As archaic as this sounds, I plan to put her in with the layer flock to teach her a lesson. They are big, mean old hatchery birds that will beat the feather picking habit right out of her! Sounds mean, but that is what us old fashioned horse people did with an unruly horse. Find someone with a mean old broodmare and put the problem horse in with her and let her kick the $h!t out of them for a couple weeks. Trust me, the horse you get back is not the one that left! If it works with herding animals, it should work with flock animals.