Araucana thread anyone?

[Illia]

Nope, that boy there is split wheaten or duckwing. He'll make 50% of what a BBR or Duckwing would in this case, the rest will be BBS birds with leakage like him. A male with little to no blue, splash, white, or black on the breast is preferred, but otherwise a true duckwing or wheaten/BBR is the other choice. (must have color in the secondary feathers)

 

[Illia]

Candled my eggs from Coberdor today, day 3, and so far I've got 5 of 14 fertile and doing good.

I hope oh I hope all 5 hatch, one of these eggs is crazy tiny!! And still fertile. I'm honestly curious if the chick will be smaller or just more stuffed in that little shell. Either way I'm happy so far; I marked a few of the bluest eggs as "B" before setting, and some of the fertile ones are indeed marked with a B.

 

[Farmerboy16]

Sounds great for you! I will candle tonight to see if any had survived the heat spike.

 

[coberdor]

The smaller eggs are actually the test eggs. They are the pullets that are in with my young Roos.

 

[Illia]

Scratch that, 7 eggs fertile and alive.

Also have just one Araucana egg in lockdown right now, expected to hatch anytime today, tomorrow, or possibly the next day.

 

[shanshan51]

Ok so two weeks ago I showed you all Einstein who hatched with great tufts. Then there was Darwin with equally impressive tufts a few days later. Here is an updated pic. They are both about two weeks old now. I am guessing both are birchens but I am still learning the colors. Both have white stomachs and darker feathering. Both have HUGE white tufts. In the pic below most of the chicks are Araucanas, a few BLRWs, and some mutts that I delivered to the neighbor. You can see on the left is the more grey one with tufts, and on the right is the black one with tufts, and peering over all the chicks in the back is a solid white with nice double tufts.

What colors do you think Einstein and Darwin will turn into? Birchen?

 

[Illia]

Pics of parents?

If both parents appeared Birchen in color, and ALL the offspring are solid black and white, no red or yellow or striping that is prominent, then they too will end up Birchen or Brown-Red.

Otherwise, they'll either be solid black and blue or black and blue with leakage, mimicking Birchen but not true.

 

[shanshan51]

Pics of parents?

If both parents appeared Birchen in color, and ALL the offspring are solid black and white, no red or yellow or striping that is prominent, then they too will end up Birchen or Brown-Red.

Otherwise, they'll either be solid black and blue or black and blue with leakage, mimicking Birchen but not true.

The Roo was a Birchen and the hens were white or cuckoo. See pics below.

 

[Illia]

They'll turn out mostly blue and black then, although the males will look much like Birchens.

 

[cashdl]

I have been reading up on the genetics of chickens. UGH! Talk about complicated. Fairly interesting though. Mostly I am trying to learn about wheaten identifiers and what modifiers affect wheaten. Fun Fun Fun.

On a similar note, last week I hatched my first wheaten chick from my pens that actually looks wheaten. The others that I have that are wheaten looked bbred at hatch. It is a golden wheaten since chick down was reddish colored as opposed to the silver wheaten when chick down is cream. It came out of an unexpected pairing of this tufted roo and the tailed bbr hen you can just see next to it


and it is a tufted and rumpless chick too. It is feathering out beautifully and I am going to guess and saw it is a pullet. Hopefully I am right.

Lanae