Araucana thread anyone?

[pride&joy]

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Hello thank you for the reply. So do you pluck both roos and hens? How far back do you go. I live in South Florida so cold weather should not be an issue?

 

[cmsdvm]

I pluck feathers on my show birds, but I cut feathers back savagely with scissors on birds that I'm not showing. I certainly cannot boast anything near 100% fertility, nor would I ever expect better than 75% as I often breed tufted to tufted. Not having a tail makes it much harder for the male to stay on, and cutting back the feathers to expose the vent helps. This is controversial, however. Many breeders believe in au natural only, others only pluck, never cut, still others do AI like on cochins.

 

[cashdl]

I cut all the bottom fluff on just my hens right now. Some of them were amazingly fluffy. The roos I have left alone and my fertility is almost 100%. I cut them scissors almost to skin all around the vent, both fluff and tail feathers. The poor girls have wind whistleing around their taileless ends.

I am not showing them so it doesn't matter that they look like they backed into a plane prop.

Lanae

 

[syble]

cut or pluck, i figure it just comes with the breed. As long as i dont have to do ai, i'm completely ok with it haha.
Sib

 

[cashdl]

I always manage to do it when the wind is blowing in my face. UGH!!! fluffy everywhere.


Lanae

 

[MMPoultryFarms]

Anyone by chance have any rumpless araucana's that are SQ stock for sale please feel free to send me a PM thanks alot.

 

[cmsdvm]

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[Illia]

So I really have to ask. . .


Has anyone here noticed a difference in fertility when a male Araucana mates a female non-Araucana? I've yet to do any true business with my boys and purebred breeding, however when my boys do business with big 'ol Marans, they give me 90% fertility.

The little breeding I've done purely with Araucanas so far gives a variety, but I've yet to hatch enough eggs to say anything definite. One time I got 100%, another time I sold a dozen eggs to a lady locally and she got about 40%, and another time I just let a pair do their thing twice, got 0%.

 

[exoticduckluvr]

so far all I have incubated and let them hatch themselves have been about 75%. Mine are all 1 yr or less if that makes a difference. I have only had 2 or 3 per 18/20 eggs not be fertile and 2 or 3 tufted die full term or early death in the shell per 20. I have not lost any tufted birds after hatching. I am breeding tufted to non tufted and getting 1/3 or more tufted chicks and maybe 1/4 tailed and that may be from 1 tailed hen and 1 partial tailed hen(my favorite non tufted pets) that were in with the 2 tufted roo 1 which is tailed. I think that is pretty good for a novice. Good or bad it makes me happy after reading about all the fertility problems many of you are having

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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Seriously, way to go.

The only input that I have on the subject so far is that my infertile Araucana roosters from last year were just as infertile over my proven producer non-Araucana hens and pullets as they were over my Araucana girls.


Friday was the day that I could start gathering Araucana eggs from my pens and get them ready, at long last, for my first try at hatching eggs from my new roosters; wouldn't you know it we had a horrific storm blow in and not a single egg since out of my Araucana pullets. This after production had begun to really get going this year. Arggg! I'm so anxious to get started.