Araucana thread anyone?

[WestKnollAmy]

How adorable! Tufted chicks are just so cute! But the clean faced ones can be just as beautiful.

I didn't even look at my Araucana chicks this morning when I took them from hatcher down to the brooder. I have no idea if any are tufted or not. I usually just check my chicks the first week for health and then the second week I will notice more on them. It is a real treat to get tufted babies and i get excited all over again when i realize I have some and get to watch them grow. However, this year i may not get to keep as many with all the pre-orders I am now trying to fill.

 

[bikergirl]

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there dad is a light duckwing and the moms are blue and black. I'm thinking that light one is a duckwing and the dark one is black. I've been hatching eggs every week

the older chicks looked like these guys and they are now looking like duckwings and blacks.

 

[cashdl]

I am hatching eggs every week to. I finally got some light duckwing looking ones. yeah

Lanae

 

[pride&joy]

Hello here are some pics of my bantam Aruacanas, I have one brown pullet that I got from skyblue egg, and two that I hatched from ebay eggs from another BYC member. I hatched three chicks one has a straight comb so he is out of breeding contention. The other two, I was looking at today and I think they have beards or muff and I read that is a DQ, so does this mean they are also out of breeding pen consideration.

I took some pics of them. They don’t at all look like the tuff’s on some of my standard Araucana chicks?

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[klf73]

those have muffs/beards, ameraucana maybe? or they could be EE's.... they definitely are not araucana

eta- if the seller sold them as araucana then they are most likely EE's since an ameraucana breeder knows what they have and wouldn't call them araucana...

 

[WestKnollAmy]

I agree, not Araucanas. They do not have beard and muffs in America.
I have not ever had one with a straight comb but I know some breeders that have had those. I stayed as far away as possible from that. Pretty little birds but not true Araucanas.

 

[pride&joy]

Ok then I only have true bantam araucana pullet, I will turn the other two out with the layer flock and my extra banty roo’s. they free range all day and love it. Boy I did not have any luck with the hatching banty eggs. Three batches from skyblue with no hatches and the only three that hatched (from Gypsychick) are not true araucanas. I will prob go back to skyblue for some company for my pullet later. Thanks for the info

 

[cashdl]

Try ebay and Tom Deans eggs I have some in the incubator right now and they are due this week. Out of the ten I bought 1 didn't develope, 2 developed and died and 7 look really good. They are large fowl.

The other place to look is eggbid. There are some bantys on their right now.

I bought some from sky blue eggs and didn't get any to hatch either. But I know people who did, so I think it is a shipping issue.

Lanae

 

[klf73]

I just hatched some araucana, they all died

. One was tufted, no idea why they all died. All the other chicks I hatched were fine. I am just going to hatch my own and see if I have the same bad luck. Haven't had much luck at all with shipped araucana eggs

 

[SunnyChic]

pride&joy :

Hello here are some pics of my bantam Aruacanas, I have one brown pullet that I got from skyblue egg, and two that I hatched from ebay eggs from another BYC member. I hatched three chicks one has a straight comb so he is out of breeding contention. The other two, I was looking at today and I think they have beards or muff and I read that is a DQ, so does this mean they are also out of breeding pen consideration.

I took some pics of them. They don’t at all look like the tuff’s on some of my standard Araucana chicks?

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I've got four 14 week old bantam Araucana cockerels I hatched from Sky Blue Eggs that you can have if you need them. I'm not sure what variety they are, and most are clean-faced with partial tails, but if you're interested just PM me. I'm in central FL (Bartow). Here's a few pics: