Araucana thread anyone?

[adorable]

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Oh what a gorgeous little chick!!

Thanks. I dont know much about colors yet. AS i am learning about this breed. This is my first year.

 

[wilds of pa]

He can pass one, two or multiple tufts or even none.. the gene doesn't work to quantity or quality of tufts or tuft.

 

[cashdl]

I realize that, I forgot to add the LOL after my statement. It was more a comentary on his third tuft than anything else.

Lanae

 

[wilds of pa]

i hope you get one with super large quad tufts..that would be cool..

 

[exoticduckluvr]

be sure to post pics when they hatch. Crossing fingers that you get a great healthy hatch of tufted chicks

 

[megcpat]

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Such a funny picture. If he flaps those things he just might take off.

 

[megcpat]

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Wow, that's kind of bizarre. Maybe you could start a line of Araucanas with tufts encircling the whole head. They'd look like lions. That would be cool.

 

[cashdl]

No quad tufts or tufts encircling the head people. Although I should have triple the chance for tufts right? With my luck it would triple the tufts not triple the chance.LOL!!

Lanae

 

[wilds of pa]

Could you imagine if you could get the head featherless and with many peduncles featherless as well, it would look like a chicken Pin head from the movie called hell raisers. O for those who didn't know peduncles (finger like appendages) are what the feathers/tufts grow out from on the araucana

 

[smoothmule]

I just have 2 roosters and one pullet who hasn't started laying yet. One rooster has tufts and he's so cool but I haven't gotten any fertile eggs from him yet. I've tried trimming vents but he may be too old, I can't tell. My clean faced rooster is very fertile and since I don't have Araucana hens for him yet, he's been practicing on a couple of Ameraucana hens and I got the cutest, rumpless babies

Here is one of the chicks, just a cute as can be. I kept 3 of the dozen I hatched, most were rumpless. There is also a black chick and a red chick that has blue fluff under the red, talk about a cool looking color. I haven't gotten a good enough picture of the red one to share yet.