Araucana thread anyone?

[cashdl]

My thoughts are to cross to Wheaten Ameraucanas.

Yes, there are issues with leg and skin color, but it is a blue egg layer, and they are available to work with.

Then again, tails, rumplessness, beards vs. tufts, it will be a good project to take on as a challenge.

I do have wheaten araucana so I am good. Black Breasted Reds for the araucana do need to be wheaten based and phenotypically like the cubalaya black breasted reds. SOP trumps all and the SOP describes a bird that is wheaten in the females.

Lanae

 

[sega]

Pictures of some tuffed little Araucanas:

 

[smoothmule]

Sega, Very nice! Love the nice tight little combs and that blue pullet is "very" nice!

 

[cashdl]

I love the black pullet in the second to last picture. She looks like she don't put up with nonsense. Nice color on your blues and Cathy is right those combs are lovely.

Lanae

 

[juliekw1]

Hi everyone! I'm new here, but have been following along. I love all of your pictures and the chicks are absolutely beautiful! I have a fabulous husband that built a cabinet incubator for me and we're trying it out. I just set my eggs that I purchased from Gary Rame[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]y. Now the hard part....waiting! Ugh! I hate to wait. [/FONT]

Wish us luck!

 

[cashdl]

Here's sending happy hatching thoughts your way.


Lanae

 

[sega]

Thanks Lanae and Cathy, the grand-parents may have come from one of you two. Not really sure. Still getting some with slight tails.

 

[MA Mama]

I am new to chickens, and by chance got eggs from Ramey from ebay. I've never had chickens, and these 5 week old Araucana chicks I have hatched have made me obsessed with the breed. I LOVE

LOVE LOVE the colors on these two chicks. I just think they are SO gorgeous, and their personalities are unbelievable, especially with my young kids. Anyway - I was hoping that someone could help me put a name to their coloring, and perhaps help me with sexing. The darker one, Broccoli, is a male I THINK. He is very calm, but the other possible roos choose him to spar with. And he has a bit (even though still small!) more comb than the other. The lighter color is Pip, who pecks at younger chicks but doesn't ever chest bump with the other suspected roos. Do you think I have my sexing right? Nobody crows yet, but the "males" voice is definitely different than the other. I want to get more to keep this coloring going, but I contacted him and he said he mixed up his experimental pens so he can't guarantee I'd get this color again. Again, I am new to this. Is this an easy color to find in Araucanas? I need MORE! THANKS!!


Female??? "Pip" She is colored like a hawk! So friendly and seeks to interact with us!




Possible male? Darker color - so gorgeous! Calm but will stick his neck up to put other suspected males in their place. "Broccoli"



His legs don't splay like that - it's just the angle.


And his eye is fine, not foggy like that, this was a super close up I did in photoshop.




My babies!






So whaddya think? Sex? color name? THANK YOU!

BYC people rock!

 

[syble]

I'm digging the lacing you have on the blues, are all your blues like that?

Pictures of some tuffed little Araucanas:

 

[mendocinosunris]

Welcome, Julie!

Hi everyone! I'm new here, but have been following along. I love all of your pictures and the chicks are absolutely beautiful! I have a fabulous husband that built a cabinet incubator for me and we're trying it out. I just set my eggs that I purchased from Gary Rame[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]y. Now the hard part....waiting! Ugh! I hate to wait. [/FONT]

Wish us luck!