Araucana thread anyone?

[Trish1974]

Blue's girls:

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Trish why don’t you just keep the clean faced Araucana hens in your layer flock? More eating eggs for you.

 

[Trish1974]

Some jailhouse pictures of the kids:

This is Uno. I originally thought cockerel because he/she is so big, but so far its comb has not started to pink-up like the others. So fingers crossed its a pullet, especially since I'm 95% sure the rest are cockerels. I love her/his silvery blue and deep contrasting head and neck color. Even if male I'm keeping him:

This is why I can't get any decent pictures:

 

[Trish1974]

Trish why don’t you just keep the clean faced Araucana hens in your layer flock? More eating eggs for you.

I'd rather have the room for tufted to tufted breeding to help weed out some of those clean faces. I am so burned out on eggs I haven't eaten any in a couple months!

 

[Trish1974]

When the layers die out they will be replaced with Araucanas only!!!

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Some jailhouse pictures of the kids:
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This is Uno. I originally thought cockerel because he/she is so big, but so far its comb has not started to pink-up like the others. So fingers crossed its a pullet, especially since I'm 95% sure the rest are cockerels. I love her/his silvery blue and deep contrasting head and neck color. Even if male I'm keeping him:
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This is why I can't get any decent pictures:
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They’re so big and beautiful!
Also which is the chick that you helped hatch?

 

[Trish1974]

They’re so big and beautiful!
Also which is the chick that you helped hatch?

Its one of the 3 cockerels. They are looking so much alike I can only tell that one apart when I see their feet... that chick has 2 crooked toes on its left foot! I hope it wasn't anything I did!

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Its one of the 3 cockerels. They are looking so much alike I can only tell that one apart when I see their feet... that chick has 2 crooked toes on its left foot! I hope it wasn't anything I did!

Well I guess once he gets his adult feathers you will see if he’s a keeper or not.

 

[Trish1974]

Trish why don’t you just keep the clean faced Araucana hens in your layer flock? More eating eggs for you.

Sorry, I misunderstood/misread your post. I'm going to hatch from the clean faced blue (well both of them) until I get another Blue Boy. I'm paranoid I'm going to lose him and not have a replacement like him.

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

Sorry, I misunderstood/misread your post. I'm going to hatch from the clean faced blue (well both of them) until I get another Blue Boy. I'm paranoid I'm going to lose him and not have a replacement like him.

Well it’s always a good plan to have a back up cock...or a whole flock of them.