Araucana thread anyone?

[cashdl]

I can fit two per box maybe 3 cause their small. The birds I am asking 25.00 each. The box is 15.00 and My guess is freight would be 40.00 but I could check. What is your zip code.

Someone is interrested in the blue and I am not totally sure the wheaten is a boy once I looked at him today. The black is all boy. I do have a two week old double tufted blue that in 3 weeks I should know what it is.

For now I am getting rid of all the tufted boy babies and keeping girls to go back in my breeding pens.

Lanae

 

[cashdl]

Ok, priority mail to Zip # 76705 ( not sure if that is yours but it is one of the Waco, Tx zips) would be about $20.00
Express mail would be $ 40.00

They both look like they would arrive same day which is a two day delivery. Overnight is not available.

Lanae

 

[adorable]

Hi there
I thought i share a picture of a tufted araucana. That i hatched out from shipped eggs

 

[coturnix2044]

Hi all,
I just am thrilled

to have had an oppurtunity to hatch out some araucana eggs.. Got me 7 lil chicks in the brooder

. 2 look like duckwings, 2 are black, 1 is black and white (kinda like a tuxedo quail), a splash-ish looking one, and a dark brownish-red colored one! Plus I would love to try to put a little more action into this thread, so please post pics of your birds so I/others can see what we have to look forward to.

Oh and Also I was wondering if it's true that the Araucanas are a hard breed to hatch, Because I ordered 24 egg, and 40 arrived, but less than 18 of the 40 even bothered forming and only 7 hatched..
The vendor told me
"Araucana egss are notoriously tough to get chicks from, thats why I always send a lot of extras. Fertility varies greatly because of the physical properties of the birds. I do all I can to ensure that a high percentage of the eggs are fertile, but with the short backs, and rumplessness it is really hard. on top of that they have a fatal gene which if expressed causes a lot of embryo deaths."
Is this true? I've heard of the double tufted gene being fatal, as well as fertility issues with vents not being trimmed and kept clear for the roo's, but I was just looking to shed some light on this.
Thanks all,
Coturnix2044

 

[cashdl]

Here is my experience, please bear in mind I am very new at this. I have 4 different color pens and I am getting just over 90% fertility. Would be 100% but 1 hen is giving me some trouble. I think I have that fixed.

So 90 % start to develop and if I set 12 eggs which I normally do every sunday and Thursday. I will get 6 to 8 to hatch. For various reasons - humidity, temp fluactions and so on if I hatch the eggs in my incubator. Now of the ones I put under broodys. I usually put them under the hens at about 2 weeks that way only good developing ones go under hens. I will usually get 8 to 10 out of 12 to hatch. Last batch under broody 11 out of 12 hatched, with the 12th one stopped developing sometime shortly after being given to mommy. I think that is pretty good.

I don't get as good results out of my incubator, but I only have so many chickens willing to go broody.

I have5 eggs in incubator right now. Actually 3 have hatched, two are tufted, 1 cleanfaced. They were due to hatch yesterday. I shrinkwrapped in shell and the other one is thinking about hatching. It was a Most of those eggs came out of a pen where my troublesome hen is and 4 that were hers didn't develop, 1 egg from another pen stopped somewhere along the way.

I am getting a nice bunch of tufted chicks out of each pen. but still low compared to cleanfaced chicks.


Now on shipped eggs I have had terrible luck. Only one batch of eggs that I bought ever hatched. I bought 10 was shipped 12 and 6 hatched. I was very happy, although none were tufted.


I shipped eggs last month to someone, she bought 6, I shipped 10, and 4 hatched. Two are tufted.


Shipping eggs seems to have a negative effect on them. They can get air bubbles, or crack, or never develop.

Lanae

 

[megcpat]

Congratulations on your chicks!!!!!!! You should be very proud to have hatched seven shipped Araucana eggs. That's no easy feat.

I bought two batches of shipped Araucana eggs and neither set ever even began to develop. I know it was not incubator troubles because both times I had the eggs in with fertile eggs of a different breed and had good or great hatch rates from the non-Araucana eggs. I bought a started foursome of Araucanas- one rooster and three girls and the rooster turned out to be 100% infertile (that was the most expensive chicken pot-pie I've ever prepared), and I have heard a lot about infertility troubles in the breed. His three sisters, however, are awesome, wild, tough ladies who lay wonderfully blue eggs. I have one gorgeous tuffted white 6 week old rooster who I bought as a day old chick and a bunch of non-tufted six week old girls running around. I am tickled to be buying a blue tufted rooster from Cashdl. So, I should have two pens with tuffted roosters completely unrelated to their hens and I have high hopes for good fertility in at least one of these pens. My goal is to breed for hearty, fertile, blue egg layers who are tufted and rumples. Perhaps someday I'll worry about breeding to the Araucana color standards, but that seems sort of secondary to me at the moment.

Cashdl, that is some really impressive fertility going on there. I am even more excited now about this rooster of yours.

 

[cashdl]

He really is a pretty little bird Megan. You will love him. I am always picking him up to make sure he is a boy. He has a nice red comb, but no pointed hackle feathers or saddle feathers. His mom is the hen I have had fertility problems with but I figured out she is just a major fuzzy but. I trimed her almost bald and within a week a fertile egg from her. This roo is the only fertile egg I got from her before I trimmed her.

Here is a couple of pics of Him. I really hope he is a boy for you.

I have only two or three hens to each roo, so that may be why my fertility is good and my roos are all fairly young.

Here is a pic of his mom.

If you think she is a he by looking at the pics let me know. I am e-mailing you in just a moment more pics also.


Lanae

 

[exoticduckluvr]

wow Cash that white & black splash in the last pic is sooooo beautiful!!!

 

[ChickensAreSweet]

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Oh what a gorgeous little chick!!

 

[cashdl]

She is georgous isn't she. She is also a little bit crazy. But I guess if your that pretty its ok.

The blue chick is hers and his tufts look like hers did till about 2 months ago. Then all the sudden she went from scraggly to wonderful.

I have her in a breeding pen with a really nice double tufted roo. Actually he is triple tufted cause he has a tuft on his chest weird looking. Anyway I am hoping for some nice double tufted blues and splashs from them.

The tufted splash is a girl I bought from Gary Ramey. He has really nice birds. I have been very fortunate in the birds I have bought. Ann of Birch Run Farm has sold me some nice blue girls too.

I hope to be able to soon produce as good as I have. I hope I have put the right girls with the right boys. Only time will tell.


Lanae