Araucana thread anyone?

[cackleberrycoop]

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You do things a bit differently over there, Illia.

 

[Illia]

I don't get the joke. . .

OH I see now!!

 

[PitterPatterPalace]

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You do things a bit differently over there, Illia.

We are a very liberal state

 

[cluckcluck42]

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Oh great so this can be a project! It will be so interesting to see what your results are. We can add my results with the one tufted roo over clean faced hens. I've been trying to google and find out more about this with no luck so it's kind of a relief to hear that there really may not be a definitive answer to this yet. It will be interesting to see what my rumpless roo over tufted hens results with as well. Comparing the two breeding pens and their offspring is going to be fun. This breed is so interesting. I would love splash or blue cuckoo Araucanas. Where did you find blue cuckoo in Araucanas?

Now speaking of colours I have a question that will probably seem ignorant. How does the colouring work in Araucanas? Obviously if I breed white to white, I will get white and so on, but how do the BBR's and such pop up? What happens if I breed a white cockeral to BBR and other coloured hens? Is there any website that really explains it? I'm not familiar with duckwing or BBR and how they work exactly. :S

 

[Illia]

Genetics explains it.

Really, their colors are the same as any other breed's colors. Study up on color genetics for chickens and you'll understand it for all breeds. . .

BBR is basically duckwing with both gold alleles. White, umm, anyone know if white Araucanas are dominant or recessive? If it is recessive, your offspring of BBR x White would be black, maybe with a tiny hint of gold or red leakage. If it is dominant, you'd get birds that look like the typical Easter Egger colors.

My blue and splash Cuckoos came from another breeder, and they do need work. They have a lot of gold leakage coming through and diluting/ruining the barring so I'll be working on breeding out the splash and in with the normally colored cuckoo to really see what I'm working with. Also, I found someone in WA with a solid, non-leaky barred Araucana cock, so I can't wait til I get him into my genepool to fix things up!

As for barring itself, I'm pretty sure it started out with Hollands.

 

[hinkjc]

I think my whites may be dominant and recessive. I worked on 2 lines to build our flock and have mixed results. I have a hen who is solid white with a pale red chest (duckwing underneath) - dominant? And I get nice crisp solid white ones (no leakage) and sometimes with a single black feather - recessive? Does that sound right?

 

[coturnix2044]

I just moved my 7 oldest araucana's to their 8.5'X8.5' pen for now

, they have that and will have an enclosed 10'X30' covered run with plants to "close-range" in by the end of the year.
~I do have a question though, I have 2 splash araucanas that are clean-faced and tailed. They look like roo's and I'll post pics tomorrow to confirm, what should I do with them? if bred to rumpless hen, will I get any rumpless chicks?
~Also If these are roosters, I have only 2 hens and 5 roosters so far!.... which means I need to re-home them. I don't know, I think I just need time to figure where to start with what I have at the moment.
What do you guys think?
Tyler

 

[smoothmule]

Tyler,
If your roosters are worthy of breeding and have traits you would like to breed for, why don't you hold on to them? You can switch them out with the others and find which hens produce best to which roosters, plus the opportunity to add to the gene pool in your flock.

I am interested in seeing a study here at BYC but I think we should start a new thread for it and keep it clear of a lot of chit chat. We can do that here and discuss what we're seeing in that thread. I would like to see some photo's of the rooster, the hen and some background and information if available with good, closeups of the tufts. They should either be named or have a number for identification purpose then the chicks have that information attached so it's easy to match them up and chick photo's should be at intervals, like day old, week old, month old etc so the progression of feathering and coloring etc can be looked at. I'd like it to have the same information for each post so the chicks can be studied from day old to maturity. Colors, tufts, rumplessness, leg color, comb could all be studied.

If you all think that might be too hard to follow with all the many, many posts and threads here at BYC's, I would be happy to create a website and be responsible for maintaining it and organizing it for the purpose of learning. We can still discuss what we're finding here. Photo's can be sent to my email. I will give credit to anyone contributing photo's and information and I think I can put it together in an easy to follow format. Only good, clear photos should be used and a disclaimer for the information will be there to state it's a learning process and information will change as knowledge increases.

 

[Medicine Man]

the N.A. Araucana was mixed with other breeds to pick up certain colors?

 

[cashdl]

I have a single tufted roo whose tuft is dismal looking at best. He has produced both single tufted and bilateraly tufted chicks. Their tufts have ranged from barely there to really nice and balanced.

I had a double tufted roo with huge well balanced tufts and he produced double tufted chicks. No single tufted. The shape of their tufts ranged from barely there to huge, beautiful and well balanced.

I have a double tufted roo with barely there but balanced tufts and I have gotten both double tufted and single tufted chicks out of them.

I have a double tufted hen whose tufts are huge and even in size but not in the same position on each side of her head. All of 4 her chicks have had tufts exactly the same.

Next year I am going to take copious notes, but I have a feeling that the tufts of the parents has little to do with the tufts of the chicks.


Lanae