Araucana thread anyone?

[cackleberrycoop]

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Oh, OH, OH, OH, Oh, Oh, OH, Oh, OH. He's so HANDSOME. Look at him looking over his shoulder like he KNOWS that he's all that and more. You WILL post pictures of his babies.

 

[cashdl]

Illia,

Wooohooo!!! I am so happy for you. He is georgous.


Megan,

I forgot that was you. Since I grew up with less than dainty feet. I wear size 11, yes I said it. LOL!!( I hate all women who were less than a 9 ) I feel comfortable is saying it is not polite to tell a girl she has big feet is all I am saying.

My incubator is homemade out of an old kitchen cabinet. It is made of plywood so I put roll pipe insulation on the inside. I need to put it underneath, sides and back of outside too. I use a 4" desk fan. I may switch to a CPU fan cause I have them and they blow less air. The temp and humidity is changing here with the season and is messing with my incubator so I really need to call it quits for the winter and use the time to beef up the incubator, but everytime an egg is laid I wonder what it will be then I have to incubate it to see. It is a vicious cycle.

I have 3 egg turner trays but my cabinet is only 29" wide so I can only use two but I only use 1 now cause I am using the shelf it was on to hatch the eggs. UGH!!!

I may just make a bigger one this winter cause I will have quite a few laying hens next spring once the babies grow up and of course I will be wondering whats in the eggs.

The hardest thing with the incubators is air flow, and humidity. During incubation I keep the humidity at about 55%. Since my incubator is my hatcher also I try to keep the humidity constant for the incubating eggs. Usually when I have a problem is when I let the humidity drop cause I forgot to add water. Then the babies get stuck and I have to help them out. So my suggestion would be to raise the humidity for hatch to over come the air flow.

Lanae

 

[Illia]

I just now realized you're Megcpat.

 

[cashdl]

Illia,

I have been meaning to mention that my red gold cockerel similar to yours is in the process of molting and his hackle feathers are coming in buttery yellow. If his sickle feathers come in like that he is going to be georgous. I will take some pics in a couple of days to show you.

Lanae

 

[smoothmule]

You guys are killing me

I LOvE Illia's rooster, those gold guys are just so handsome. I would love to get the genetics down for the all golden duckwing roosters. I wouldn't care if I had a yard full of roosters if they looked like that

I was out at the barn tonight and the new "fella's" are settling in fine and eating like piggies. They also learned within a couple minutes of being in the pen to drink from the rabbit water bottle. Mine all Love their bottles and they're perfect for my Serama's. A typical rabbit water bottle will last 2 days per Serama with no waste and it's always beautifully clean. The new guys were a lot more calm as I took each out out and held him or her. Some of them still freak when I reach for them but if I hold them snuggly and talk quiet, they calm right down. My goal is always for them to quiet down and walk out of my arms when I let them, calmly back into the pen. Most of mine will just stand there for me to pick them up and they cuddle their heads under my chin and cluck to me softly. I won't ever have a whole bunch of chickens and don't want to if wouldn't have time to enjoy them. That is my after work serenity time.

I just wormed all mine about 3 weeks ago so I'll make another round and worm these guys too then wait till there's a hard freeze and worm one more time and we should be good till spring then.

Lanae, you need to share some pictures here

I'd love to see your red gold cockerel.

 

[cashdl]

Here is a pic I took a month or so ago. He is turning more yellow. I love it.

I would love it more if he was tufted, but I can always give him some tufted girls. I am thinking duckwings.

Lanae

 

[cashdl]

See how yellow his saddle feathers are. His hackle feathers are coming in even sunnier yellow. I can't wait untill he is done molting. It is taking him forever.

Lanae

 

[smoothmule]

Very nice looking boy Lanae! Tell me more about the color lemon yellow on poultry. I've seen it mentioned but not really seen any chickens or roos that color.

 

[cashdl]

Illia has a couple that she posted a few pages back. Actually hers are lemon blue I believe.

Lanae

 

[Illia]

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I call it that, but in all technicality, what you're seeing are males who carry one silver gene, one gold gene. My Lemon Blues are like that, but with blue genes as well as a few more things.

Here's my main "Lemon Blue" again -

Here's a yellow/blue birchen-type cockerel, fully and bilaterally tufted, that I gave away.

Here's one with the golden colors, but also some red. He was gorgeous!! But also a cull.

Here's a splash version, with the more creamy yellow color you may be looking for

Of course though, the creamiest boys I had I never got good photos of before they were culled. . . They were a solid buttery yellow/ivory color with pale blue hackles and saddle feathers.