Araucana thread anyone?

[suzannaski]

ps- has anyone else noticed that the new BYC is painfully slow to load? The thread comes up, but then I can't scroll until the multitude of ads finish loading. Grrr.

 

[coberdor]

You're welcome! I'm glad you got some tufted chicks too. It's funny that in my recent hatch I also have a black tufted chick. Can you get a black from a blue and a splash? I don't have any black hens or roos.

Wow! All these posts since I've been here last!
Cobredor's eggs have all hatched, and I now have 7 rumpless babies, and 3 have little tufts! I hope they all grow up to become healthy, happy PULLETS!
Thanks Carmel!

 

[shanshan51]

I couldn't resist a quick candle. At least 6 of my araucana eggs are growing !

Very cool! Are those the ones you got from me? I have had the best luck with my Araucana eggs!

 

[SherrieT]

Yes. They are yours. More may be growing, my eyesight isn't incredible and with the blue eggs I'm just not sure on a few.

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[Illia]

Haha, said just as I would - On the reply about Barred Rock x Araucana, agreed - No Araucanas there, and those won't make Olive Egg layers.


Well, I've got 9 chicks out now. Some splash, some yellow/white, one blue, two black, and a chipmunk. Still got 5 eggs left and it's day 22 as well as 4 EE eggs of my own who surprisingly haven't made a peep or pip.

 

[Illia]

Alright, hatch is done. Got 11 chicks out of 14 eggs that went into lockdown. It appears to be, for the moment, that only one is tufted and with a tiny little tuft. I've got a couple blacks, a couple blues, a couple/few splash or whites, two chipmunk/duckwings, and one fascinating "champagne" chipmunk. It's like a very washed out, dun-striped sort of color. I'm thinking maybe it is either a silver columbian carrier or wheaten split or red pyle or something. Very excited with all these chickies.


And, in other news - A while ago I sold a pair of clean-faced Araucana based Olive Eggers to someone, and just recently they started hatching out eggs from the pair. Well, one night she called and I overheard the talk of a "double tufted" chick. I was at first thinking, "there's a difference between tufts and muffs, you cannot possibly have a tufted chick! I sold you a clean-faced pair, the "tufts" are from someone else." And lo and behold! I came by to visit and see her chicks and what did I see? A bilaterally tufted Olive Egger with PERFECT tufts. Very large, upright, both the same size and both carried symmetrically, I've honestly never had an Araucana with tufts like these, I was quite shocked and envious, which means, the "clean faced" OE pullet I sold the lady was actually internally tufted.

I've got 10 eggs in the bator from that pair (100% fertility too) and am SUPER excited, as I've got a 25% chance of a rumpless, tufted OE with great egg color and good meaty size.

 

[exoticduckluvr]

wow amazing. Hope you have a perfect hatch too. Can't wait to see pics

 

[exoticduckluvr]

need to get that guys ad for Araucana booted off Craigs List. He replied back that he wasn't using my pic and to mind my own business. He is in violation of copywrite laws by stealing the pic and is most likely false advertising in his listing since he is not posting pics of his own Araucana chicks. If you go to the link and look at the right top side of the page and click prohibited it will flag his ad. if he gets enough it will get removed.
http://gulfport.craigslist.org/grd/2903716660.html

 

[poularde]

Flagged him. Sorry he is using your pic. Do not know what is wrong with people.

 

[cashdl]

Alright, hatch is done. Got 11 chicks out of 14 eggs that went into lockdown. It appears to be, for the moment, that only one is tufted and with a tiny little tuft. I've got a couple blacks, a couple blues, a couple/few splash or whites, two chipmunk/duckwings, and one fascinating "champagne" chipmunk. It's like a very washed out, dun-striped sort of color. I'm thinking maybe it is either a silver columbian carrier or wheaten split or red pyle or something. Very excited with all these chickies.


And, in other news - A while ago I sold a pair of clean-faced Araucana based Olive Eggers to someone, and just recently they started hatching out eggs from the pair. Well, one night she called and I overheard the talk of a "double tufted" chick. I was at first thinking, "there's a difference between tufts and muffs, you cannot possibly have a tufted chick! I sold you a clean-faced pair, the "tufts" are from someone else." And lo and behold! I came by to visit and see her chicks and what did I see? A bilaterally tufted Olive Egger with PERFECT tufts. Very large, upright, both the same size and both carried symmetrically, I've honestly never had an Araucana with tufts like these, I was quite shocked and envious, which means, the "clean faced" OE pullet I sold the lady was actually internally tufted.

I've got 10 eggs in the bator from that pair (100% fertility too) and am SUPER excited, as I've got a 25% chance of a rumpless, tufted OE with great egg color and good meaty size.

Congrats Illia,

I too have had a similar experience with my blue eggers. I have 3 pens set up. 1 has a tufted and rumpless roo over tailed muffed crested and bearded hens. I am getting lots of tufts out of that pen, so no surprises there. But I have two other pens and in one pen there is a cleanfaced rumpless birchen roo over same type of hens as pen 1. Then pen 3 has a cleanfaced and rumpless blue breasted red roo over same type of hens as pen 1 and two. I mark the eggs from pen 1 as TXEE, but pen two and three I just mark the eggs EE and then when I hatch them I seperate the EEs into their own hatching tray and the TXEEs go in another hatching tray. Well image my complete surprise when I recently started hatching blue double tufted chicks from the EE pens eggs. I am assuming it is from the blue breasted red roo, but he has no visible tufts. I know its not from any of the hens because non of them come from a tufted background. The blue color is a weird silvery blue also.

In similar news, wouldn't you know that I am hatching wheaten chicks from my tuftedX EE pen. The roo is a RIR colored Tufted rumpless boy with large white patches where his black should be. They are all tailed and muffed so far, but they are definately wheaten and feathering in with typical wheaten feathers.

Lanae