Araucana thread anyone?
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Is anyone interested in some bantam chicks? I have 8 chicks hatched yesterday. 2 clean-faced blues, 1 clean faced funny dark red, and 5 whites with leg color that is too dark. 3 of the whites are tufted. I usually sell extras as blue egg layers to the public but usually only have 2 or 3. This is a bad hatch from my point of view. I am working on whites with yellow legs. I have only one of those. Rats.
I'm really, really liking the Buff Araucanas. The pictures of said birds that have been posted lately are gorgeous!
OK, folks. I think I need some help. I have a trio of Araucana on the way next week, and since I'm pretty new to this, I didn't think it through that I'll have only two Araucana pullets for the little cockerel who's coming. I have 8 other pullets (Buckeye and Norwegian Jaerhon). I hadn't planned to mix the Araucana with the other breeds. But oh, my poor pullets having to deal with one randy rooster! What was I thinking
? I can't really afford to lay out for a bunch more Araucana pullets at the moment (even if I could find them). Any thoughts?
? I can't really afford to lay out for a bunch more Araucana pullets at the moment (even if I could find them). Any thoughts?
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They should be fine as a trio
By the time they are old enough for the roo to be randy, you will have so fallen in love with araucana that you will move heaven and earth to find more. LOL!!
They will be fine. I have 3 trios and 2 quads for breeding and it all depends on the roo. My roo that has 3 girls is an absolute pest to his favorite. The other roos that have two girls, seem to be able to share the love as they say, and everyone gets along just fine.
Lanae
They will be fine. I have 3 trios and 2 quads for breeding and it all depends on the roo. My roo that has 3 girls is an absolute pest to his favorite. The other roos that have two girls, seem to be able to share the love as they say, and everyone gets along just fine.
Lanae
Hi all
I've been MIA for the past week. Spring storms have been hard hitting here and I've gone through 3 dial up modems and yes I'm still on slow dial up
They aren't making the internal dial up modems any more so it's a real challenge to track down any, much less 3. Great photo's!
Coberdor, love the lil Buff! Have you started using Spot yet? I can't wait to see what you get by him
I'm betting the spottedy one ends up a lot different in adult feathering, that's been my experience so far.
In the meantime, my Araucana's are doing great. I have my first color pen: My clean faced/rumpless/yellow legged white rooster (Casper), my best young hen (Snow White) who is sparkling white/light willow legged/rumpless/cleanfaced, My partial tailed/white(possibly dominant white as she's a dirty white)/tufted, light willow legged hen (Fawn) and my black/rumpless with a stray feather/double tufted (dangly tufts) black hen (Violet). I will continue to collect eggs but won't plan them to be all Caspers for a while yet. When I have a good black rooster, I'll take Violet out. The next breeding pen will be BBR and wheaten hens with Rudy.
The youngsters in the big wire pen are growing like weeds and more coming in behind them. I have 10 out in the barn in a pen with a light for supplemental warmth, these are partially feathered and when they have most of the juvenile feathering, they can go out with the others. I have a dozen in the house in the brooder, a couple still in down, the three hatched out a week ago and 7 day old chicks that absolutely attacked the water bottle and the chick feed the minute I put them in the brooder. Talk about robust chicks, but then I'm not seeing any tufts in this batch and 2 or 3 look like they have tail bumps
We'll see how they develop but I'm not planning to keep any with tails unless they are partial tails. I have a few that have such short backs that I think I'm going to need some partial tailed to get better balanced, healthier birds. I've found I can tell the "chopped off" rumps now at a week or less old. I'll keep them all till I can better evaluate them but the ones with full tails will be culled so if anyone is interested in them, they will go together and will be free except shipping. For someone desperate to get a start, they would need a tufted rumpless and a couple years of culling to get their start.
Some of the young ones in the barn are getting some deep red feathers coming in here and there, I can't wait to see some of these guys in full, mature feathers. I love the subtle differences in the chick down I'm getting and it makes me appreciate the color experts who can look at a chick and tell what they will look like. Pale silver blue with cream markings, several blacks, a light chipmunk (sort of like Lucy was but more striping) and a couple of golden yellows that I expect will be dominant whites so they may have red bleeding through like the little Pyle colored chick. NEAT! I just put 14 eggs in the hatcher, set on 4/19 so my fingers are crossed for a few more this year with tufts. The little BBR with the great tufts is looking great now. Like Lanae, my favorite was a sickly chick but I gave antibiotics (amoxil plus tylan in water and gave drops by syringe) and water with ACD and vitamins in the water bottle. I had to make it drink sometimes and it would throw it's little head back and stagger backwards when it drank. I added a shallow dish of water with ACD and vitamins in case it preferred the dish and that seemed to work better for this chick even though I'd seen it drink from the water bottle. Wow, it was a close call and I wouldn't have bet on it surviving but knock on wood!
Whew, a weeks worth of catch up!
Coberdor, love the lil Buff! Have you started using Spot yet? I can't wait to see what you get by him
In the meantime, my Araucana's are doing great. I have my first color pen: My clean faced/rumpless/yellow legged white rooster (Casper), my best young hen (Snow White) who is sparkling white/light willow legged/rumpless/cleanfaced, My partial tailed/white(possibly dominant white as she's a dirty white)/tufted, light willow legged hen (Fawn) and my black/rumpless with a stray feather/double tufted (dangly tufts) black hen (Violet). I will continue to collect eggs but won't plan them to be all Caspers for a while yet. When I have a good black rooster, I'll take Violet out. The next breeding pen will be BBR and wheaten hens with Rudy.
The youngsters in the big wire pen are growing like weeds and more coming in behind them. I have 10 out in the barn in a pen with a light for supplemental warmth, these are partially feathered and when they have most of the juvenile feathering, they can go out with the others. I have a dozen in the house in the brooder, a couple still in down, the three hatched out a week ago and 7 day old chicks that absolutely attacked the water bottle and the chick feed the minute I put them in the brooder. Talk about robust chicks, but then I'm not seeing any tufts in this batch and 2 or 3 look like they have tail bumps
Some of the young ones in the barn are getting some deep red feathers coming in here and there, I can't wait to see some of these guys in full, mature feathers. I love the subtle differences in the chick down I'm getting and it makes me appreciate the color experts who can look at a chick and tell what they will look like. Pale silver blue with cream markings, several blacks, a light chipmunk (sort of like Lucy was but more striping) and a couple of golden yellows that I expect will be dominant whites so they may have red bleeding through like the little Pyle colored chick. NEAT! I just put 14 eggs in the hatcher, set on 4/19 so my fingers are crossed for a few more this year with tufts. The little BBR with the great tufts is looking great now. Like Lanae, my favorite was a sickly chick but I gave antibiotics (amoxil plus tylan in water and gave drops by syringe) and water with ACD and vitamins in the water bottle. I had to make it drink sometimes and it would throw it's little head back and stagger backwards when it drank. I added a shallow dish of water with ACD and vitamins in case it preferred the dish and that seemed to work better for this chick even though I'd seen it drink from the water bottle. Wow, it was a close call and I wouldn't have bet on it surviving but knock on wood!
Whew, a weeks worth of catch up!
Smoothmule, I wondered where you had disappeared to! So sorry to hear about your computer misfortunes, like most in this part of the country we have had some violent weather lately ourselve. Torrential rains and wind then a couple of mornins' with lows in the mid 30's. In spite of all this my hens have suddenly gotten into the broody mood. Mostly my hens of Utterback bloodlines and with two LG's full of EE and Araucana eggs I have just said " Go ahead then" and placed a clutch of eggs under them. Candled one 'bator of eggs at 14 days and about one-third of the eggs were not fertile(?) or had stopped development. This is at least a better percentage than shipped eggs. One more week and I may have some peeps to post pics of. Hopefully some blues as one pen has a bi-lateral tufted blue-breasted duckwing( at least that's what I call him) roo with a hen that's similarly colored, a blue hen and two BBR hens. Always a surprise tho!
Took a couple of pics today.
Cockerel or Pullet? starting to show a hint of red on the breast and maybe on the shoulder.
Some of the chicks in the barn that are beginning to feather out
The down photo
The same chick today, a lot of deep dark red coming in. Is this a BBR red pullet or another off the wall color for me? I have 2 that are just alike, one tufted one clean faced, both rumpless.
Some of them looking outside at the sunshine
Cockerel or Pullet? starting to show a hint of red on the breast and maybe on the shoulder.
Some of the chicks in the barn that are beginning to feather out
The down photo
The same chick today, a lot of deep dark red coming in. Is this a BBR red pullet or another off the wall color for me? I have 2 that are just alike, one tufted one clean faced, both rumpless.
Some of them looking outside at the sunshine
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