Araucana thread anyone?

[juliekw1]

A long time breeder of araucana is wanting to get rid of his flock of bantams about 45 adults and 75) 3 to 4 week old chicks. They are blacks, whites, BBR, and golden duckwings. He has more hatching this weekend. He is in NC and price depends on if someone takes them all and wether they need to be shipped or not.

Let me know if anyone is interested.

Lanae

Hi Lanae,

Where in NC? I might be interested it it's close by.

Julie

 

[cashdl]

Hi Julie, Contact the breeder directly his name is Reggie Neal. His email is [email protected]

Lanae

 

[juliekw1]

Hi Julie, Contact the breeder directly his name is Reggie Neal. His email is [email protected]

Lanae

Thanks!

 

[Illia]

I am not totally sure what they are asking for either because the difference between the two is a matter of shading. Its just one more thing that makes the araucana so much fun.

My confusion came from and I am still confused about your statement that there was no wild type accepted in araucana large fowl. The duckwings are wild type and the description is of silver duckwings based on wild type. Unless we are both saying the same thing.

Are you saying you hoped that the SOP for LF araucana duckwing was wild type, as in un-modified by silver?

I am saying that the SOP for LF duckwings is wild type modified by silver. LOL!

Some think that the BBR LF araucana should be wild type same as ABA standard of perfection. I prefer the wheaten based color but think it would be nice if they were called wheaten and then there was room for a BBR color based on wild type.

Lanae

What I meant by no wildtype, sorry, is no homozygous gold wildtype. You know, BBR in the non-Wheaten sense.

Yes, I was hoping the golden duckwing females were actually wildtype, non-silver. I honestly don't understand why we need TWO silver duckwing females accepted, one just darker than the other.

I'd like the BBR to stay Wheaten, but the golden females be actually homozygous gold wildtype. I just don't get the point of two kinds of silver, especially considering a good golden male can be based from adding more homozygous gold into a golden based from silver breeding, adding too much silver as suggested by the SOP's female lineup pales the golden males out too much.

 

[eggdd]

what does a bbr araucana look like?

 

[Illia]

Males look like any BBR of any breed - Black breast, thighs. Reddish hackle, saddle, wing bows, and secondaries with an iridescent black band on the wings and black primaries. Basically like a Wheaten, although some breeds ask to be more red than orange.

Females are basically a dark form of Wheaten.

 

[eggdd]

so maybe i need to ask what a wheaten looks like. when i think of wheaten, i think of, like, a wheaten marans or something similar - - that wheaten color, right? but when you say bbr is wheaten, it confuses me. bbr doesn't look like a wheaten.

 

[Illia]

Yeah it's confusing.

BBR is just as tern that defines a male who has a black breast and reddish hackle, saddle, wings. It often refers to either Wheaten or pure gold duckwing, it depends on the breed. In Araucanas it refers to Wheaten, at least, in LF. Either way visually, they're quite the same in males, hence the word used for either.

Although don't imagine Wheaten Marans females, imagine Cubalayas.

 

[cashdl]

Yes the cubalaya color is the correct wheaten color it is different than the standard wheaten and is a color found only in a few breeds.

Black Breasted red can be based on wild type, wheaten, and brown, with all the roos looking very similar. It is only in the hens that the color base difference is obvious.

Lanae

 

[MA Mama]

I can't get that email to work for the Araucana in NC...