Araucana thread anyone?

[cashdl]

He is either a brown red, which is the gold version of birchen, or he is a melanized duckwing. Either way he appears to be split for gold and silver. Someone else may have a different idea. Do you know what color his parents were.

As far as the tail goes, he looks like he is rumpless with extended tail follicles. If bred to rumpless you will get, rumpless, tailed, and partially tailed birds.

Lanae

 

[shanshan51]

Very excited with todays small hatch. Several BLRWs and 4 Araucanas. Two solid blacks with double tufts and a cuckoo with double tufts. Thats 3/3 with double tufts. Yayyyy

 

[CarolJ]

Thanks, Lanae, for the information. No - I don't know about his parents. I had two sets of hatching eggs from two different breeders here at BYC (but I didn't mark which eggs were from which breeder - big newbie mistake) - and out of 31 eggs altogether, only 2 hatched - this little guy and a solid grey (lavender?) rumpless pullet. That hatch was bad across the board - even with eggs that weren't shipped. Don't know what happened with that hatch. I will keep the pullet, and I will probably re-home this one. I really love his feathering, though.

He is either a brown red, which is the gold version of birchen, or he is a melanized duckwing. Either way he appears to be split for gold and silver. Someone else may have a different idea. Do you know what color his parents were.

As far as the tail goes, he looks like he is rumpless with extended tail follicles. If bred to rumpless you will get, rumpless, tailed, and partially tailed birds.

Lanae

 

[Illia]

He's a duckwing split (basically a black with leakage, possibly carrying recessive duckwing or even wheaten)


True duckwings, even melanized, have color in the secondary feathers. Brown-Reds have orange hackles.

 

[CarolJ]

Thanks, Illia. That really helps.

Shanshan51 - congrats on the double-tufted babies!

 

[happyhensny]

coberdor - candling and taking out the turner this evening.

I'm a little excited...

 

[coberdor]

Great! Here's hoping for a great hatch! !

 

[happyhensny]

Great! Here's hoping for a great hatch! !

Done, turner out and eggs in. Out of 15 we have 6 moving little chicks. Awesome! Can't wait till they hatch Thursday.

 

[Rumbull]

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!

I don't think a few tail feathers is a deal killer. You wouldn't show him but he should still produce some rumpless chicks. My blue boy has a couple, they don't stick out like yours but he still has some tail feathers. He produces rumpless chicks even when breed to a fully tailed hen.

 

[poularde]

I agree with Rumbull. I have a boy with a few feathers. So far none of his offspring have those feathers...