Araucana thread anyone?

[Ksane]

Could anyone identify these 2 colors? (Debi?) These guys are 10 days old now. The 1st one does look Wheaten pullet to me but that's only based on if comparison is the same as with a Wheaten Ameraucana pullet vs cockerel. The 2nd? There wasn't a possibility of a white in the batch, almost looks super light wheaten?
Do I just need to wait longer?

 

[coberdor]

Another topic:  Is there anyone breeding/selling Araucanas or Arauacana hatching eggs in Ohio?  I'd really prefer to work with hatching eggs (I have 4 hens that spend the summers broody), but I've been reading about the perils of sending them through the mail.  I'd be willing to drive to pick up eggs.

I live in Ohio Kristen! I live in Norton, near Akron. I have hatching eggs and i even have a young double tufted splash roo you could have!

 

[coberdor]

Just thought I'd post an update on my 3 little araucana chicks. The striped one looks almost like the color of lavender BBR, s/he is very pretty with the pastel colors. The other two that I thought were just splash almost look like they are splash cuckoo

Many of my splash Roos are a splash cuckoo.

 

[laura877]

Thanks! I always love learning new things about chicken genetics.

We have a new Araucana owner in Michigan now! I just sent of 13 chicks with their new chicken Mom earlier today!

We finally made it home and got the new adoptees all settled in last night. When I went to our barn to put the new babies in the brooder, there were 4 kits (baby coons) in a steel shelving unit that I have in the barn. I called hubby on phone and had him come down with the gun.

I had the neighbor girl taking care of the horses, cats and chickens while we were gone for a week. When we got back she had food all over the place so I'm sure that had something to do with vermin coming in as I haven't been seeing any raccoons in years.

I've never had to lock the coop up or anything and tonight when I peeked in the coop, there wasn't a bird in there. There were feathers everywhere though. The rooster and a few hens were all roosting somewhere else. I started doing a head count and realized I was missing 8 of 13 laying hens and 2x 12 wk old pullets. I am also missing 3 chicks that were hatched by their moms. I'm hoping that the hens are roosting somewhere else and that I will find them in the morning all safe and sound. So for now, Old Man rooster and his flock of young pullets are locked up in the coop. I've set a live trap and we will not give up until the momma coon is caught.

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

Oh that is horrible! I hope you get that mama coon and you find your hens and chicks hiding. I fear with all the feathers there was some kind of mayhem

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

Could anyone identify these 2 colors? (Debi?) These guys are 10 days old now. The 1st one does look Wheaten pullet to me but that's only based on if comparison is the same as with a Wheaten Ameraucana pullet vs cockerel. The 2nd? There wasn't a possibility of a white in the batch, almost looks super light wheaten?
Do I just need to wait longer?

I'd like to see them a little older. They do look very light. If they are going to look wheaten they shouldn't be as light as say a Wheaten Ameraucana, they should be darker and more red then gold. My Wheaten Marans hens look pretty light at first (I did not cross Marans and Araucanas) and darken as the grow so we can hope.

 

[smoothmule]

Cool color, I have no idea what they could be and no educated guesses without knowing the parents colors but my uneducated guess might be splash wheaten.

 

[smoothmule]

Laura877,
So sorry to hear about your raccoon problem. Hope you find her soon.

 

[laura877]

This morning I awoke to look out my bedroom window. I was hoping that there would be some loose chickens walking around doing chicken stuff but all I saw was the 2x momma hens, each with their own chicks. Other then them it was desolate out there. It it sad in a way because some of those hens I have had for quite qa few years and they were good dependable layers...some 3-4 yrs old and still giving me 4-5 eggs a wk. I had a black Java Americauna cross that one of my hens hatched this spring. I was really looking foreward to what she was going to give me as she was a really big pullet. Much bigger then all the other her age. Oh well.

So when I go to the barn there is a coon in the trap that I set. Hubby comes down takes care of it only for me to find out its a male. He tore the trap up trying to get out. My granddaughter had taken a window fan down to the barn for me as I was going to turn that on the chicks in the brooder. I didn't pay atention to where she set it until this morning I looked at it and it was torn up too. Apparently Mr. Coon reached thru the spaces of the trap and pull the cord off the fan and broke all the plastic grate off the back just trying anything he could to get out.

I had just moved some blue maran chicks I had hatched from the 4x 8 brooder (as their heads were almost touching the top) into a 10 x 12 stall. They were all ok. The new Araucana chicks I got from Stacy were all ok. So I guess I keep setting traps until I don't catch anymore. You can be sure that I will be locking my coop up at night from now on.

I am sick that my favorite chickens had to meet their demise in such a horrific battle for their lives. But in church today, we had a missionary and he talked about "when God takes away, its usually to give something better." So I a really excited to see where I am going with my new Araucanas and my blue marans. This is going to be a fun ride.

 

[Stacykins]

I am so sorry you lost so many special chickens to the predators. I am glad that your blue marans and the Araucana chicks were all safe and sound, but that doesn't replace those who are gone.