Araucana thread anyone?

[gootziecat]

There are lavender Araucana hatching eggs on eBay, if anyone is interested.

 

[smoothmule]

I picked up a new cockerel yesterday. He was needing a new home because the guy bought a bunch of "pullets" and this one must have tricked them all cause he started crowing

and that isn't allowed where they live. They're in the city limits and can keep hens but no roosters. I asked if he had any hens but the only Araucana hen he had gotten was tufted and she died when she was still a chick.

I couldn't resist getting him and then thought what the heck was I going to do with another rooster,

I like him though and he has the darkest yellow legs, wow. They're deep yellow. He's really a big boy for a youngster too so he may add some size and weight here. Then, of course, he's just plain ole pretty! His down sides are that he doesn't have tufts, he does have 2 or 3 tail feathers and he's not a standard color but all those things I think I can work on, considering non of my flock are perfect anyway.

I named him Joker, for the way he fooled the people who thought he was a pullet. He's getting along great with Degas so he will get to live in that coop for now. When some of my younger Araucana's are more mature and I have hatched a few chicks to see what I'm getting, I'll separate all 4 roosters and give them a couple hens each and later on, set up pairs with the best potential to pass on to work on getting some up to the standard and leave a flock of the rest for surprise chicks.

 

[cackleberrycoop]

Well now, I have trouble determining sex on Araucanas, but I don't think that I would have mistaken this guy for a pullet - he's all boy! Very nice coloring indeed. I see lots of fun hatches in your future...

 

[smoothmule]

I don't think these people had a clue and they bought them rather young so it makes sense there might be a mistake.

 

[zekii]

Nice looking Roo ... !!!

 

[Illia]

Pretty cockerel, but I hope you realized he's partially tailed.

 

[jeremy]

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She mentioned that Illia,

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[Illia]

Golly

and I thought I skimmed through the post like 3 times just to make sure. . . . ah, well.

 

[jeremy]

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Were you wearing your reading glasses?

 

[cashdl]

Nice boy Cathy,

I like his comb. I have a splash that looks like very similar to him. I think it can be half the fun seeing what you come up with.

Yesterday a friend of mine came over to play with my chickens and was looking at what I have been sure is an araucana X EE pullet. I havn't been paying much attention to her and I made some comment about how I love her color and wish she was a purebred with tufts - I know who her daddy is and he is clean faced -, he looked at me funny and said Lanae those are tufts. So apparently she is out of the only araucana hen that was in that pen, cause when I picked this little pullet up, sure enough there are tufts and she doesn't have a beard. In that pen I had 4 hens - 3 EE's and 1 tufted araucana who I thought wasn't laying eggs.

It was soo nice seeing my birds thru someone else's eyes. I love my birds but I fell in love with them even more, knowing he has nice birds and really liked mine.

Lanae