Araucana thread anyone?

[cashdl]

Check out two of this years babies. The mottled roo is stunning. He is a mottled silver birchen. The other bird is a roo also I think and has alot going on color wise, but look at those tufts. I have been getting alot of babies with tufts like this. I would love it if they were less pendulous and more upright but really I am not going to complain.

Lanae

 

[coberdor]

Gorgeous, Lanae. Love the mottled. How'd you work on creating these?

 

[cashdl]

They have purely been an accident. I bought a hen from Ann Horsman that must be mottled but only carries one copy because its not visible that I can see. I bred her to one of my roos who is not mottled because none of their babies are visibly mottled. I sold him and kept one of their roo chicks who doesn't appear mottled so only has 1 copy from Mama and am now breeding him back to the hen and 50% of their chicks are visibly mottled. Voila! mottled birds. I was going for more duckwings and ended up with mottled along with duckwings.

They are really cool looking. I have 1 tufted mottled rooster but his mottling is not as extreme, a tufted barely mottled hen, and two cleanfaced extremely mottled roosters.

I had another mottled pair but sold them to the Philipines.

Lanae

 

[Stacykins]

Sad news and good news, all in one post. Good news first, my very first, purebred Araucana chick from my own birds just kicked its eggshell off! Not dry enough to see if the little one has tufts,but exciting nonetheless!

Sad news is that one of my hens is very sick. Drooling, lethargic, sitting all fluffed up. She has been inside since last night, getting pedialyte for fluids, but I don't have much hope for her. I have no idea what she is ill with and that would make any treatment just a shot from the hip. She doesn't even react when I pick her up. At least no other birds have any signs of anything.

 

[cashdl]

Congratulations on the new baby stacykins. I am sorry to hear about your hen. Off the top of my head I can't think of anything to help except maybe check to see if she is egg bound.

Lanae

 

[cashdl]

Here is my white araucana roo chick that is for sale.

He is super pretty and so far no red bleed thru.

Lanae

 

[gootziecat]

Look at those tufts! Beautiful little roo, Lanae.

 

[syble]

here's an update on the odd ball i hatched from coberdor eggs, care to narrow it down for me? it does have the nicest green legs lol. Comparing it to the others i think its a pullet, the splash a roo, and the white a pullet... still not sure if the splash is cuckoo or not. if i breed him to a black hen later will he produce clear black hens and barred roos, or is that another gene?

 

[cmsdvm]

I'm hatching lots of bantam araucanas in black, white, blue, and, for some reason, out of the blues, barred. Is anyone interested in bantam chicks|?

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

cmsdvm, if by chance you happen to go to the Stevenson show this weekend, I might be interested...