Araucana thread anyone?

[LC Fancy]

YAAAY! Iam soo excited, Hopefully she PM's me back today! I absolutly am excited because of all of her feedback and everyone is happy! YAAY i can finnaly get those eggs i have been looking at for weeks!

 

[MA Mama]

WANTED: ARAUCANA MALE in NEW ENGLAND

Hello fellow rumpless lovers... My gorgeous BBR roo Broccoli died yesterday. I am heartsick. On top of that, my poor Araucana hens have no one to appreciate them.

Does anyone in the New England area have an extra true rumpless Araucana male they need to find a home for? Clean faced is fine, any age is OK. He would have a great home and I'd be happy to share his offspring. I have 2 gloriously tufted females and two clean faced females.

This was my Broccoli, taken a few months ago... he was the best and I miss him so much.

 

[poularde]

I am so sorry for your loss. He looked like he was a handsome boy. I hope you cam find someone to replace. Good luck.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

WANTED: ARAUCANA MALE in NEW ENGLAND

Hello fellow rumpless lovers... My gorgeous BBR roo Broccoli died yesterday. I am heartsick. On top of that, my poor Araucana hens have no one to appreciate them.

Does anyone in the New England area have an extra true rumpless Araucana male they need to find a home for? Clean faced is fine, any age is OK. He would have a great home and I'd be happy to share his offspring. I have 2 gloriously tufted females and two clean faced females.

This was my Broccoli, taken a few months ago... he was the best and I miss him so much.

So sorry for your loss. He was a beautiful bird.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

My girl is finally getting tufts on one side. The other side has one tiny feather.

 

[LC Fancy]

Quick question, how hard are auracanas to hatch?? Or what seems to be some of your guys hatch rate?/

 

[Puddin Fluff]

LCFancy, I am certainly not the expert as we just did our first hatch this spring but since no one else is on right now, I will tell you what I have learned and then the experts can correct me later

. Araucanas have a lower fertility rate to begin with due to the Rumless issue. Aparently it makes fertilization harder. We had 12 eggs and when I candled at 8days only 5 showed development. The double tufted gene runs with a lethel gene that causes some chicks to die in the shell and I believe that is a 25% mortality rate associated with that. Of the 5 we had left, we had 2 hatch and are healthy and happy. My male is clean faced and has a tail (the tail is not the prefered standard in the US) and my female is single tufted. I expected going in that the hatch rate would be low and I am happy to have the two I got. They have a great personality and I really enjoy watching them.

 

[MA Mama]

I get about 40-50% on shipped Araucana eggs.

 

[Kassaundra]

I went outside to get pics of my baby nn chick and couldn't pass up a chance to get pics of my little araucana roolet






I flipped both of these pics so I don't know why the one is sideways

 

[cashdl]

I went outside to get pics of my baby nn chick and couldn't pass up a chance to get pics of my little araucana roolet






I flipped both of these pics so I don't know why the one is sideways

I have a chick identical to this one down to the tufts. Love it.