Araucana thread anyone?

[exoticduckluvr]

they are beautiful Smooth

I have 3 Bantam Araucana broodys now on a few eggs each and put 15 in bator yesterday. mine are laying fools now that is has cooled off. It was a long hot summer for us.
Broodys due to hatch out on 17, 22, & 25

 

[smoothmule]

Exoticduckluvr,
I'd love to see your bantams. I have a single pair of bantams. Blueboy, whom I bought on auction here from Florida and my little hen Bluesy, whom I had been breeding to my Serama roosters and getting some sweet little bantams.
I'm looking at my Luvdove as a potential mate for him too. She's so petite that she may actually mature more bantam sized anyway and she has awesome tufts but has a tail so she would be a great match to Blueboy.

Here is Blueboy and Bluesy.

I'm pretty sure Luvdove is going to mature no larger than Bluesy.

 

[exoticduckluvr]

Smooth if you look back to pg 78/79 I believe I posted the new Tufted ones I finally found in Mass. after hatching and buying chicks that all ended up non tufted. I also think 2 I my boys from my non tufted birds are posted other that I need to take new pic of can be found here http://pets.webshots.com/album/577728454DpfSXe

 

[coturnix2044]

smoothmule,
Please don't fuss at me, I know shipping is a gamble, I know the tufts and rumplessness are a gamble. I've gotten enough to know. I was just stating the fact the only 4 our of 16 formed in the shells at the second shipment, and four formed but didn't hatch on the first. I'm merely venting that the seller didn't respond even if it was I'm sorry but...., and that for $80, the most I have and will have ever spent on eggs, I ended up with 2 chicks. I don't blame the seller, I'm just upset with the outcome.
Also, I was merely asking if anybody would be selling chicks that would ship. I don't care wether tufted, rumpless or not, I'd be looking at buying the entire hatch to add some distant genes to decrease inbreeding and increase my gene pool. I'm a "new breeder" and I am just looking at what I can bring in to better my flock, what i'll end up to cross with whom and how I can use it to help what i'm working towards. I'm not picky on the chicks- if it's tufted I'm happy, if it's tailed... oh well, I'll just use it as a layer for now, if it's rumpless and cleanfaced... it'll work for me. I do this for the hobby, any money made goes directly back towards the hobby- please don't offend me or turn me away because I was venting or I asked a question that everyone asks at one point, My question was the complete opposite- I just would prefer to not deal with trying to hatch out shipped eggs anymore and to not bring in older birds, I'd like to raise them from chicks.
~I hope you don't take this as offensive or rude, I certainly don't mean to come across rude or offensive~
Tyler

 

[smoothmule]

Tyler,
I don't mean it that way either, I just feel that this breed requires breeders with eyes wide open. I do understand the venting but to be honest, if I had sold eggs to someone and they came back to me "venting" I would probably not ever sell to them again because no matter how you put it, it sounds like you are blaming someone and it's just the downside of raising them. I just take my licks and go on and try again. That's how I've gotten what I have now, a piece at a time. If all you can come up with is a single rooster, clean faced and rumpless or tufted with a tail, count your blessings and work to find a mate that has what he lacks. I started with a single clean faced, rumpless rooster and it was over a year before I got a second bird.......another single rooster, lol but this time he was tufted and rumpless

I kept thinking, Now what??? Patience is the key

I tried buying chicks numerous times with no responses at all so I hope you have better luck than I did. The fact is that there are still just not that many Araucana's out there and few breeders I know of that will hatch out an entire hatch and sell to anyone so it's really not personal, most breeders are having similar outcomes as you and I just don't see that they could come out selling that way. I will be hatching eggs as long as mine will lay this winter, even if I get just one chick at a time. I can't even imagine having enough hatched out to sell the entire hatch to anyone before I sorted through them for the jewels. I just hope your expectations for buying and entire hatch are not too high but best of luck to you.

 

[smoothmule]

Exoticduckluvr,
How cute ! I love your pullet, Lacey but they're all cute as a button. You need my rooster, Blueboy......

 

[smoothmule]

Thought I'd just add that I will be selling Macho. He's clean faced, rumpless and has a nice substantial body. He's going to be a good sized rooster. He's about 6 months old now. I would sell him with or without a pullet, Blot is also clean faced and rumpless. I would like them to go together and would reserve a tufted, rumpless pullet to sell whomever buys the pair to add tufts to the trio, my choice. I'll have some hatching in the spring so there would be a bit of a wait but it's a start. I am not planning to sell any pullets at all otherwise so this is a one time offer. If not sold, I have a friend who will take in Macho and I'll just keep Blot and I'll be able to borrow Macho if I want. I'll quickly run out of room for roosters if I'm not careful.

Anyone interested in details can PM me. Just to get a pullet was a huge ordeal for me and I wouldn't mind to keep Blot at all but I know how hard it is to find a single pullet so I would part with her but only with Macho and a breeding home preferred.

 

[cashdl]

Hi all,

Nice pics Cathy. I am so happy they are looking better. I love your new babies, but you knew I would say that. Just remember me in the spring. The creme chick of mine has perked up considerably over the last two days, course she sleeps under a heat lamp day and night. She thinks she is royalty.

I will have chicks available in a month or so and definately in the spring. I don't ship untill they are fully feathered out so they could be between 6 to 10 weeks. In a month I will have blues and splash's.

Keep posting pics everyone it will help us get thru the winter months with almost no eggs and no hatching.

Lanae

 

[smoothmule]

Lanae,
Thanks, and you know you're on the top of my list for trading

The little pullet of Slinky's doesn't have tufts but hopefully we'll get one next time. The little cockerel does though, he's got it all, I can't wait to see how he matures. I've been told they are silver duckwing but then someone else reminded me that depending on the melanizers they could look very different. I'm pretty sure the little recessive white chick is duckwing under the white so that one will be bred to Slinky's baby roo someday.......if they all survive that is.......ack!
I have no idea about Fawn's color under the white so I am really excited about seeing her start laying.

Well, off to bed. I'm still puny and exhausted. We didn't have many surgeries today so I got an extra day off to recover and tomorrow is deer season so I have a house full of 24 yr old boys to feed at 5 am...............

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

Just an update of the 2 bantam pullets of ours. Hubby ended up naming them (as I got to choose the breed), Pebbles and BamBam. They are clear from their quarantine and we are slowly introducing them into our flock of 5 LF hatchery birds. Going pretty smoothly.

Look how close they are to the flock (don't mind my dead garden & almost ALL the birds are in various stages of molt)