Araucana thread anyone?

[smoothmule]

Welcome new guys!

Hoping you all get a great start this year, I am so happy to see so many people interested in raising Araucana's. I hope to have even better chicks next year and will be looking for other breeders to do trading with.

 

[kec5105]

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Thanks for the well wishes everybody but no luck, there were two that made it to day 18 that were beautifully tufted and rumpless but no one hatched

I have pics I'll post later...they would have been cute, one with chipmonky stripes and the other was black with huge whit tufts

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

I am so sorry to hear that. So sad.

 

[ndoles]

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Thanks for the well wishes everybody but no luck, there were two that made it to day 18 that were beautifully tufted and rumpless but no one hatched

I have pics I'll post later...they would have been cute, one with chipmonky stripes and the other was black with huge whit tufts

I know how it feels to get so close, and yet none make it..

That happened to me recently...Heres hoping for a better hatch next time.

 

[cashdl]

I am so sorry to hear that. It is a huge let down for you I know. Please keep trying . I love hatching Araucana, and each one is a miracle. They are so hard to hatch.

Lanae

 

[smoothmule]

Lanae,
Hope your chick is a dark barred roo

cool. How many of the barred do you have now? enough for a breeding pen of their own color? That would be really cool. Do you get barred hens from black roos over barred hens? I hatched out a couple of chicks from my golden laced cochin rooster and maran hens. I got a pullet and a cockerel, they're sex linked too.

All my hens have pretty much halted on laying in this heat. That's okay though, I'll worm them all while they wait for cooler weather and maybe treat to prevent lice and all then boost them with some probiotics and after a nice rest they should start laying again. Three of my black hens are still setting and one in the BBR pen, one other black hen was the only one in with Joker that wasn't setting and there were 4 young roosters so I thought I'd move her in with Blanco, the new tufted white rooster. He just has 2 hens, Snowy and Fawn. Those 2 hens were terribly rough on her and I ended up taking her out again so I may have to try another tactic. I'll move Blanco and his hens to another pen for a week or so after this black hen recovers from the pecking on the back of her head (poor thing). Then the black hen will get the big pen that week and settle in and I'll add Blanco and the girls back into her territory this time. This usually works for me. I'd really like a tufted black cockerel from this hen and Blanco for the black pen. Her eggs are nice blue with that really shiny, semigloss finish. The nicest eggs of the black hens. I need to work on bettering the black hens size.

 

[cashdl]

My dominant white roo carries the barring gene. I thought it was my splash hens but, the chicks comming out of him and my bbr hen are blue white and red barred, so it has to be him.

I did have a tufted barred roo chick but he died. Of course. Right now I have 4 barred pullets, and several cleanfaced tri- colored barred roo chicks. I have the barred hens in with the white roo and am hoping for a tufted barred roo chick. Then I will have a barred breeding pen.

I hope you get a black tufted roo chick Cathy.

Lanae

 

[kec5105]

WARNING GRAPHIC PHOTOS OF DEAD CHICKS OUT OF EGGS






















This is the black chick with the very visible white tufts.

And the cool chipmonk chick. He had some not so developed but definetly there tufts that you may or may not be able to see from the pictures, it was hard to photograph.

 

[Stacykins]

Definitely unfortunate. Sorry for your losses.

My chicks are growing up quite nicely! It is amazing how quickly they learn how to fly, so brooder cleanings aren't so easy when you put a chick in a box, and the chick flies out! I guess I need a taller box! And the eggs that are on day 14 were candled last night. I may have started with 24 and am down to 16, but these are all showing signs of life with active embryos! Not that I am expecting that many to hatch, with the lethal gene at work and late quitters. But it is hopeful, shining the night into a gorgeous, sky blue egg and seeing the embryo bounce around!

 

[kec5105]

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Good luck Stacykins! I hope your hatches are successful