Araucana thread anyone?

[cluckcluck42]

I want to end up with a rumpless/tufted rooster over rumpless pullets so that is what I am breeding for. I'm not worrying about the colour right now at all. I have four roosters actually, two tufted and two rumpless, so I'm trying to figure out which one(s) to keep. I wish I could post pics, looks like we might need to buy a new memory card in the next couple weeks unless something magical happens to this one. How do memory cards even break!?

My original plan was rumpless over tufted and vice versa but I have lost the hens I expected to have in those groups so I am now left with only one rumpless and one tufted. It's been a pretty depressing winter for me. I've had my heart broken multiple times. I do want to keep the black tailed hen and put her with a rumpless rooster and then cull all tailed birds and sell them as EE's. My understanding is tailed x rumpless gives roughly half of each? Is this really such a bad idea? (asking honestly)

Cheers for answering

 

[cluckcluck42]

Woops I thought that you were suggesting I get rid of the black tailed female. Sorry I am having perpetual brain farts today.

I have to think long and hard about this. I know I need two breeding groups and I am only asking for trouble by having just the one. It'll take a lot longer to get what I want if I only have one group. I just feel a little lost after losing my two females recently.

 

[syble]

it dose make for a challenge to do it as one, but you have an option. You could mark specific hens eggs to collect at a certain time when exposed to a certain rooster. Then just swap roosters in and out.
Sib

 

[cashdl]

I am going to being doing a booth for the Araucana Club at poultry show this month and I want to do an hatching egg raffle. I need people to send me at least 3 eggs out of their rumpless breeding pens. I am taking 1 dzn of my own to the show. I will be raffleing them in 1/2 dzn batches.

In the past it apparantly has been difficult to get people to send eggs to be judged much less raffled and I would like that to change. The tickets will be $1.00 each ( so not expensive as an impulse buy at the show) and all monies go to the ACA. If you send eggs please send your business cards also. I will be putting the business cards of everyone who contributes in the egg cartons. That way if they have a successful hatch and want to do it again, they have all the info to contact people.

Please please help out. Otherwise I am just going to be sitting there handing out flyers. I want this to be interactive for people. Let them have fun getting to know the breed. I am hoping to take two of my rumpless tufted birds up and have them in cages at the booth so people can actually see how awesome they are upclose.

Come on people, help out!! LOL!!

Lanae

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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Oh, I long to be able to help out, but I have a waiting list for chicks at this point and the weather out here is SO cold that I'm sure the eggs would freeze before they left town. If you do this again in the future, post on this forum and I'll try my darndest to participate! GOOD LUCK.

 

[cashdl]

Thanks for the offer Megan, I appreciate it.

So far I have two breeders who have sent me pics for their book. One shows their birds. I know a couple of others who will send me pics also - Megan. LOL!!

Here is how it goes. I have a space for two pics and a paragraph about the breeder, their birds, and their contact info, if they want to be listed as a breeder. Then on the facing page I have space for 9 photos of the same breeders birds. They don't all need to be tufted but rumpless is prefered. The top of that page will name the birds as that breeders.

If you don't want to be listed as a breeder any photos are appreciated. I have pages where I can insert them along with the other non breeder birds and they will have a caption with the owners name, the bird color, and the birds name if it has one.

This is a book to show people what araucanas look like and if it turns out well I will make it available at the publishers online and anyone can order it and see their birds in print.
Mostly it is a picture book. There is some info on the history of the araucana.

I know it is short notice but I am going to say Friday is the cut off since I am hoping to send it off then. I want to try to get it back in time for the poultry show the following weekend. Who know it may turn out awful, but how bad can a book filled with georgous araucanas be.

Lanae

 

[syble]

I wont be able to help for this show but if you do another in 6 or 8 months i should. I want it to be spring so i can get my eggs and hatch some beauties already haha. I'm well versed with the digital camera, no end to the photos that will come then haha
Sib

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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Yikes! I'm on it, I'm on it!

 

[smoothmule]

Lanae,
Do you have a date when you need to have them? I know I've gotten eggs several days after they should have arrived. I'd like to send some eggs but right now, they are freezing solid before I can pick them up. We have 2 ft of snow from the blizzard here and it's supposed to be -8 tonight. We had several days before the blizzard that it was above 40 everyday and I grabbed every egg I could and set them. They're still laying but some of them froze and cracked before I got to them and I've been checking 3 times a day the past couple of days trying to catch them as they lay them. They aren't laying good in this weather either. In a week or so, the weather may get better, I hope.
I've been off work all week, the surgery center where I work actually closed for the weather. It's been a mess here.
Cathy

 

[smoothmule]

Michelle,
I only have 3 cockerels I'd sell at the moment. I'm hoping some of these chicks are pullets and I figured I'd put together some pairs to sell. the chicks are all rumpless but one has a nub so I don't know if it will be tailed or just a few feathers. If there are any rumpless pullets, they will pair up nice with the tufted cockerels. If you can find older pullets that are clean faced/rumpless, I have 2 nice tufted/rumpless cockerels and one that is tufted and partial tailed, prices different on each because of color/quality.