Araucana thread anyone?

[cackleberrycoop]

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So, these two splash together? Nice

Very nice indeed.

 

[owler]

Do all araucana have tinted eggs? I have one that is 24 weeks old and I do not think she is laying yet. All my other hens (all brown egg layers) are laying. She is definitely at the bottom of the pecking order but I don't think that makes a difference.

 

[Illia]

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Since your signature says "Araucana/Americana" - You don't have real Araucanas, you have "Easter Egger" mutts, whom are commonly falsely sold as Araucanas or even Ameraucanas (no i in the name) by hatcheries like Murray McMurray and their supplied feedstores.

Your Easter Eggers may possibly lay brown eggs too. True Araucanas ALWAYS lay blue or turquoisey blue-green eggs.

 

[cackleberrycoop]

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Well, Araucanas in general are hard to come by - especially tufted. In my experience, the bantams are far easier to find than the Large Fowl. Exciting that he let you bring home eggs! Did you see the Araucana rooster that may have fertilized these eggs? I'm have the funniest mental images as I try to figure out what a Turken/Araucana cross would look like. You have to post pics if you get any rumples naked necked chicks running around. We have one Turken hen out with our main egg laying flock, no Turken roosters, and nearly each time someone goes broody and hatches a clutch out there there it least one delightfully butt ugly chick with a little bald neck - which I find amazing because there are about 40 other hens out there with her, everyone a better egg layer than she is. I'm pretty sure, having watched this happen again and again, that the naked neck must be a genetically dominant trait.
Good luck with your little blue eggs!

 

[cashdl]

Congrats Illia, who is your silver duckwing hen bred to?

I finally have my first chick from one of my silver duckwing hens that I got from Ann Horsman. I was looking at the incubator yesterday morning and a couple of eggs were zipping but not my silvers egg, it wasn't even pipped, then about 1 hr later I hear cheeping and go to check, can you believe it the silvers egg had hatched and the chick was dry, fluffy and looking at me through the window like, " Tah Dah!" It was the first to hatch by about an hr. It of course is my favorite.

This little hen laid her first egg Saturday and another one yesterday. She comes from LF parents but is actually smaller than a banty. Her eggs looks like sparrow eggs in size. They are so cute. Her sister is 3 times her size. They run around together and look like mutt and Jeff.

I havn't posted pics in so long. I need to take more and keep forgetting. I have a truly awesome double tufted roo chick that I am excited about. He has the wrong leg color (yellow) but is soo pretty otherwise. I also have a new chick that hatched a different color than I have seen before. Its overall color is beigey creme but its head and wings are chocolate brown. It will be interesting to see what it feathers out like.

Lanae

 

[Illia]

Pretty cuckoo girl, cashdl

She sure is tiny!


My Silver Duckwing is bred to Marango, my Golden-Blue Duckwing (with columbian) - Either all the offspring will look like dad, or half like mom, half like dad.

 

[Illia]

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[cackleberrycoop]

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What color is your dbl tufted roo chick with the yellow legs, Lanae?

 

[cackleberrycoop]

At long, long last, I have successfully hatched out an Araucana chick. Not bad for a first, huh?

 

[cashdl]

Megan, It is beautiful. Don't look directly at it or show any interest untill it is 5 months old. If you get attached or think it is special it will die.

My roo chick is looking to be a BBR like his grandaddy. I will run around and get pics today.

I will get new pics of my little hen so you all can appreciate how truly tiny she is. I absolutely love her shape though. She looks like she is wearing a skirt.

Lanae