Araucana thread anyone?

[shanshan51]

Shannon, its a little harder than just breeding to a bird with a darker blue egg. You have to first find a bird that lays a darker blue egg. I have 1a hen that lays a nice medium teal blue egg. 1 bird. She is the mother of your roo. The rest of my hens either lay pale blue or blue green eggs. I have had nice blue egg layers and have sold them because the plumage color is not the direction I want to go in. Win some lose some.
Lanae

Gotcha well it will be exciting to see what he passes on. The others that I want to add in to his pen this month came from greener eggs than blue which is why I was asking. Oh yeah and
by the way two chicks hatched today! One with double tufts that is black with white tufts. The other is solid white with no tufts. I am SOOOO excited with what we purchased from you. Thanks again!

 

[shanshan51]

Hi Megan,

The trays are covered with a metal mesh screen which is nice. You can see through them. The only downside is that the trays also came with dividers so that in each tray you can hatch chicks seperately depending on the pen they came out of but once you slid the tray back into the hatcher you can't see the eggs beyond the first divider because they are blocked by the shelf above. I will see what has hatched once I get home.

There were a couple of used incubators here at the Stockton show. Not great and made me love the ones I have even more, although one lady bought a 2010 model GQF 1502 with acrylic door for $400.00 and it looked to be in really godd condition.

I am telling you all right now. I will be doing a breed table at stockton next winter and I want and need egg entrys from you all. They can be old eggs. I want to have lots of eggs to show people and I want to have an egg judging table. It will be a $3.00 per entry fee. For right now I would like to have just an overall egg judging. But in the future I am thinking that maybe we could do entrys based on breed color varieties. I know my blues and splash's have the best egg color. I am wondering if other people find that certain color varieties have better color than others.

I would also like to have a hatching egg raffle. This would all be to benefit the club so please help out. I plan on doing at two other shows this year and would like some help at least with people sending eggs for display.

The marans table was set up next to me, and they have their act together. The had egg judging based on the breed color varieties. They had about 20 entries, and this is for a club whose breed was just admitted to the APA last year. There was alot of people gathered around their table asking questions about the birds.

I had a good turnout. Sold a mug and a few egg color charts. I had taken a dozen of my eggs for display. Sadly I was not thrilled with the egg color under the lights although Terry Reader said they looked fine. He may have been being nice, but I felt better.LOL!


Lanae

You can count on us participating just give us a heads up when its all happening!

 

[Ashburnham]

Lol- well I hope it's not feminine - it's supposed to be a rooster.

 

[eggdd]

 

[shanshan51]

Came home to fluffy tufted butts! What a great day...Stockton show and cute little chicks.

 

[Illia]

Congrats, what a cutie!

My colored-tufted hen "Josephine" started laying again so I got a few eggs of hers in the bator just in time for my Valentine's hatch and so far one of the eggs is fertile. Only set 3 total in time but here's

for a double-tufted chick!! And even more locked fingers for one from my blue cuckoo male.

I'm thinking another week or two and I'll begin loading up the second incubator with plenty of Araucana eggs. My splash cuckoo has been laying for at least a month now and I've got some eggs of hers in the bator, but, they're EE eggs. I've yet to keep her in a new pen I built for her. It's a huge pen and she's the best flier I've ever had, so, I'm working on it.

In the mean time she'll give me blue cuckoo sex-linked crested tufted rumpless EE's in less than three weeks.

It's nothing serious, just, hatching them out for the fun of it, see if I get something really awesome looking.

 

[smoothmule]

Lanae,
You'll have to notify us here and give me a week or two to have some eggs for you......and hope the hens are cooperative. I'd be happy to send some for the raffle and the judging table. My white pen lays the nicest blue eggs, the black pen has generally had more green tint with the blue but I got one today from Cracker Jacks pen (my split chocolate project roo) and it was a gorgeous shiny blue, almost an enamel blue. Some of my white hens lay more of a light baby blue color but a flatter sheen.

If you blow a couple out to save, will they fade? Anyone try it?

 

[Illia]

Keep it under minimal light as possible and yes, the color and/or gloss stays for at least a year. It eventually fades over time but the least heat and light keeps it in good shape.

 

[cashdl]

Wow Shannon,

I am happy for you and jealous. Is that baby out of the cuckoo splash hens from me?


Lanae

 

[Stacykins]

Came home to fluffy tufted butts! What a great day...Stockton show and cute little chicks.

Holy tufting, batman! That is an impressive chick! Congrats!