Araucana thread anyone?

[Araucana Nest]

okay one more breeding question and I'll stop. If a cockerel gets pasty butt due to a short back - of course he's trimmed and clean - are the chances good that he will be able to breed? I'll be breeding him to a tailed pullet. Anyone had success?

 

[chickengr]

okay one more breeding question and I'll stop. If a cockerel gets pasty butt due to a short back - of course he's trimmed and clean - are the chances good that he will be able to breed? I'll be breeding him to a tailed pullet. Anyone had success?

make sure your pullet has a long back. 2 short backs will produce culls only.

 

[willchickeneat]

Some of the eggs I got were gray- all of them from one particular breeder, in fact. They don't all lay a blue egg but the blue egg is prized above all the other colors. I'm pretty sure some people either put a filter on their photos or do something else to manipulate the color of the eggs. The blue coloration is the result of a retrovirus; the entire shell inside and out is blue. The blue i have seen in my Araucana and in my Cream Legbar is a light pastel blue....very pretty but nothing like a blue sky. That may exist; I just haven't seen it.

From what I have been told, be prepared to work with whatever you get. If I had known then what I know now I could have saved a lot of money just starting with what I already had instead of going to a top breeder for foundation stock.

Gray looking egg. This is from my OE rumpless hen. Normall lays bottom left:

Ink will occasionally run low, so you get gray eggs. I think it is pretty cool.

If you squint your eyes, you can see the blue pigment or the tinge.

 

[willchickeneat]

One of my cleanface duckwing hens finally laying! She is no longer a pullet. I call her Buffy. 1st eggs generally has nice blue toner ink.

Has a blue-green tinge. I remember the hatching eggs were more blue-green than blue.

Left: DT Araucana, Right: CF Duckwing, Bottom: Splash Ameraucana. This photo does a nice comparison of the different blues.

Here's a full-sun photo.

 

[Araucana Nest]

One of my cleanface duckwing hens finally laying! She is no longer a pullet. I call her Buffy. 1st eggs generally has nice blue toner ink.



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Has a blue-green tinge. I remember the hatching eggs were more blue-green than blue.

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Left: DT Araucana, Right: CF Duckwing, Bottom: Splash Ameraucana. This photo does a nice comparison of the different blues.

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Here's a full-sun photo.

Excellent photo comparisons. Thank you. The color of Buff's egg appears to be what my CL lay when they're at full cartridge ... which will be soon. I'm noticing on a low tone hen that the inside of her eggshell is bluer than the outside of her eggshell.

 

[willchickeneat]

Excellent photo comparisons. Thank you. The color of Buff's egg appears to be what my CL lay when they're at full cartridge ... which will be soon. I'm noticing on a low tone hen that the inside of her eggshell is bluer than the outside of her eggshell.

Some people forget that even blue layers can have extra bloom. Blue layer bloom is harder to tell because then the egg may just look white/whiter. The chalky feeling gives it away or when you wash them the blue pigment will be more solidified.

 

[willchickeneat]

We've had rain all week and today we finally have sunshine. Cleaned out the coop so that the chickens can dust bath rather than muck around in the mud. Araucana eggs today looks super today and surprisingly clean (yesterday was messy)

This cleanface duckwing was noisy all morning. Finally quiet down once I went outside.

I've test hatch some eggs from all my Araucanas and my OE rumpless hen. Looks like fertility and hatch rate is super low/non-existent if they are under 1 years old. I see the boys mount them, however no egg development so I'm postponing test hate for Araucana until later this Spring.

What are your breeding plans this year?

Mine, I'm hoping to get some blue Araucanas, possibly some cuckoo AR and maybe some blacks. I think I will be giving up on the duckwing color.

Also working on my blue copper Marans. My boys have a slight halo, so planning on hatching and keeping a few boys with no or minimal halo. My two, 2 gen girls are laying a decent chocolate color so the genes for dark chocolate eggs is still there .

Ameraucanas are on hold. I didn't get a boy that I liked, so am only keeping a few blue/splash hens. Hoping to order some chicks to see if I can get a decent boy.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

We've had rain all week and today we finally have sunshine. Cleaned out the coop so that the chickens can dust bath rather than muck around in the mud. Araucana eggs today looks super today and surprisingly clean (yesterday was messy)

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This cleanface duckwing was noisy all morning. Finally quiet down once I went outside.

I've test hatch some eggs from all my Araucanas and my OE rumpless hen. Looks like fertility and hatch rate is super low/non-existent if they are under 1 years old. I see the boys mount them, however no egg development so I'm postponing test hate for Araucana until later this Spring.

What are your breeding plans this year?

Mine, I'm hoping to get some blue Araucanas, possibly some cuckoo AR and maybe some blacks. I think I will be giving up on the duckwing color.

Also working on my blue copper Marans. My boys have a slight halo, so planning on hatching and keeping a few boys with no or minimal halo. My two, 2 gen girls are laying a decent chocolate color so the genes for dark chocolate eggs is still there .

Ameraucanas are on hold. I didn't get a boy that I liked, so am only keeping a few blue/splash hens. Hoping to order some chicks to see if I can get a decent boy.

Still planning on getting some pullets and a cockerel if I can find ones that seem like good bets. Whoever I get them from though will benout if state so that means shipped birds. But worrying since I've never received anything older than a day old in the mail apart from teen quail and those can survive off of a cucumber and some water if they need to for a few days

 

[maceleneo]

hi people, I'm not sure this is the right place to post my question but I would like to have an opinion: are these araucanas?
shouldn't their eggs be less greenish and more blueish? shouldn't they have tufts? I know standard varies from country to country, but their sisters do have tufts, so maybe they're some mix (in this case are they EE)? thanks for your answers!

 

[Brahma Chicken5000]

hi people, I'm not sure this is the right place to post my question but I would like to have an opinion: are these araucanas?
shouldn't their eggs be less greenish and more blueish? shouldn't they have tufts? I know standard varies from country to country, but their sisters do have tufts, so maybe they're some mix (in this case are they EE)? thanks for your answers!
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American Araucanas can be clean faced-lacking tufts. There is an Araucana color card that has the allowed colors of Araucana egg colors.