Araucana thread anyone?

[smoothmule]

Hoping for all to hatch then

Here is the battery back up I use, it's the same one.

http://www.amazon.com/APC-600VA-Battery-Back-up-BN600R/dp/B003FZ8KPE

I'm planning to buy a fancier one that will handle more things I want to protect but for now, this one gives me a piece of mind, somewhat. There's always the issue with the light bulb going out when I'm not home. That happened once so I replace the bulb every other month in my home made incubator. I save them for replacements in the house lights.

 

[coberdor]

Well, good and bad news!

Bad news - Candled 'em all and only have 3 that didn't end up with bloodrings, etc before the power outage incident. 3 left now.

Good news - All my other eggs are alive, so I'm assuming my Araucanas are too. Here's a big cheers and even bigger

for all three to hatch!

How tragic! I've never had that happen in an incubator, but i have in a brooder, so i know how you feel. Well remember, I'm sending you more this week in trade for some OEs.

 

[Illia]

This is my first time to ever see bloodrings but no worries. As long as I get at least two chicks out of this first run.

 

[coberdor]

Hey Poularde, aren't yours due to hatch? Can't wait to see!

I just got my new GQF set up and popped in some of my own turkey eggs and EEs for testing out the new bator. I'll candle next week and see how they're doing. This is the first year for hatching my own turkey eggs. I hatched them out last year and kept 4 hens and a tom.

 

[coberdor]

This is my first time to ever see bloodrings but no worries. As long as I get at least two chicks out of this first run.

I'm getting 13 eggs a day from my two pens, so I'll send 36 or a few more on Monday.

 

[Illia]

All to me right?

I'm hoping to set some more of my own Araucana eggs soon but I'm having the toughest time pairing birds. I want my blue cuckoo in the pasture with most of the girls, and my blue-gold quail/duckwing in a pen with just a couple select girls, but instead, when I try switching the boys the blue cuckoo could care less for the girls and the pasture, and instead prefers to A) fence fight the other male or B) run loose around the yard with his favorite feral Araucana, Josephine. Who was laying nicely while I had her caged, (only place I can possibly keep her) but now that she's free and, umm, loose again, she's not laying.

Araucanas. Determined little escape artists.

My blue-gold boy Marango loves the pasture and all his hens, but, I don't want any more of his offspring with the hens that are in that pasture.

 

[coberdor]

I read several interesting articles online today from Chile. They were on the araucanas, mapuches, kollonkas and queteros. It was on the history, etc. it was interesting that they originally thought that the araucanas were a different species from other chickens! Of course the articles were in Spanish, but that's no problem for me. They had some naked necked and frizzled araucanas too.

 

[coberdor]

Yes, all the eggs are being boxed for you!.

 

[poularde]

I have lock-down on the 28th! I will candle the night before. Will let you know.

 

[CarolJ]

A couple questions for you araucana experts here! This is an araucana I hatched out back in December. It's a cockerel (looks like he has the beginnings of pointy saddle feathers) - and he has that funny looking tail with just a few feathers. What color pattern is this? And since he has a tail, that means I would not want to breed him - correct? I think he's so gorgeous - I just hate that he has that tail!