Araucana thread anyone?

[juliekw1]

My new babies! They are one week today.
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I didn't realize it until today, but he/she has a small wispy feather tuft on the right cheek - cute!

There's a smaller one on the other side

excuse the mess!

I'm horrible at this. Can you all help me out on the colors?

 

[cashdl]

First pic looks wheaten, second looks blue, pic 3 left is a black. Really cute chicks. Congrats on the tufts.


Lanae

 

[juliekw1]

First pic looks wheaten, second looks blue, pic 3 left is a black. Really cute chicks. Congrats on the tufts.


Lanae

Thanks! We also had a solid black one, but he/she didn't make it. :-(

 

[prairie]

Do araucauna's go broody very often?

It's been 20 years since I had any and I can't remember. I sure want one to go broody.

 

[cashdl]

Mine go broody if the wind blows. I have several broody right now and it is irritating. One went broody before she laid her first egg. She sat of the next for 4 weeks before she decided she was done. Still no egg from her either.

Lanae

 

[prairie]

ugh! I have had mine for nearly a year and they haven't gone broody yet. They are about 3 yrs old. Got me a Cornish banty in hopes she will go broody and hatch some guinea eggs for me!

 

[Stacykins]

Hah! I am battling with broodyness too! Two out of my four are broody right now. ONE has been broody for way over a month. You see, I tried giving her eggs that were due to hatch to raise. The chicks hatched under her (it was about the three week point for her broodyness, so not too soon). She was a great mom....for a day. Then she was like the kind of Mom who leaves her kids in a hot car while going to the nail salon. I found the chicks cold and confused in some deep grass while she was off having a dust bath. So once I take them away, she goes back to being broody, the twit!

 

[cashdl]

Yep, One of mine actually hatched a chick. Well it hatched while she was down out of the nest eating, but I left it alone and she came back. She was a good mom for two days and then she led it out of the nest box and allowed it to get pecked to death while she was stuffing her face. I took the rest of the eggs away and am hatching them in the house. She went back to sleeping on the roost that night. Stupid hen.

Lanae

 

[coberdor]

I've had two broody now for 6 weeks. They each hatched out a couple of chicks, but preferred leaving their new chicks to lay on another nest box of eggs too. Lost several chicks and took the rest away from them.

I find my mille fleurs to be my best broodies, for consistency, being good mothers and I've never had them leave chicks to go back on a nest of eggs!

 

[cashdl]

I have had a couple of really good araucana broodies, but I hate taking the chance anymore unless it is a proven broody. Each potential chick is too precious to me till it hatches no tufts and a tail. BLECH! LOL! Course those are the ones that always survive.


Lanae