Araucana thread anyone?

[Stacykins]

I don't think they'll lay until at least twenty weeks. I can't remember when mine started, 22 or 23 weeks?

I have a pair of Araucana hens who are coparenting right now. They are sharing six chicks. It is kinda funny, the chicks see both of the hens as their 'mother' and the little group is always together. They went on their first outing since they hatched, poking about the tall grass. Thankfully, with two hens keeping an eye on them, nobody got separated!

 

[syble]

Sorry to hear about your mother, Syble. I pray that God give you and her the strength to get thru this. Have they said she is terminal? Remember to ask her all kinds of questions about herself and her childhood. There is so much that I wish that I had ask of both my mom and dad before they died.

thanks, they never really seam to say terminal. shes barely a stage 4, they're confident that chemo will easily get rid of the metastasis, that would just leave the primary mass, which has just recently began to give her some pain. it's not impacting her breathing or anything. We got the biopsy result today, I was very surprised to find out that its actually an adenocarcinoma... how that ended up manifesting in her lung I'm a bit confused about...

 

[Puddin Fluff]

syble, sorry to hear about your mother. I am afraid I jumped in earlier without reading the last few posts as I was excited about our week.

We'll keep you in our prayers.

 

[Puddin Fluff]

I don't think they'll lay until at least twenty weeks. I can't remember when mine started, 22 or 23 weeks?

I have a pair of Araucana hens who are coparenting right now. They are sharing six chicks. It is kinda funny, the chicks see both of the hens as their 'mother' and the little group is always together. They went on their first outing since they hatched, poking about the tall grass. Thankfully, with two hens keeping an eye on them, nobody got separated!

Thanks Stacykins. Our only experience has been with our 4-H pullet chain girls last year and they started laying at an amazing 15 weeks. I knew the average was 20-24 weeks. Will her comb grow when she gets closer to laying?

I was hopeing to maybe hatch some down the road but if our boy doesn't get an attitude adjustment she may be solo. He is being very rough on our young Favorelle girls and stalks them and our Houdan and grabs them by the neck feathers and just holds on while they are screaming. He is too chicken ( no pun intended) to go after the hens because they will beat him down. I really don't have a place to seperate him. I hope he reigns in his hormones or directs them to someone more receptive or he will be looking for a new home.

 

[syble]

no worries, i took no offense.

I feel for you and your overly hormonal roos, i find the best cure for that is a mature roo to teach them some manners!

 

[laura877]

I lost one of my little blue chicks tonight. It was the one that had a dirty bum. I took it to the house the other day, cleaned its bum up and examined it. It looked fine and I thought it was over the pasty butt. tonight I went down to close everyone up and it was almost dead. I took it to the house to hopefully nurse it back. I found that its little butt was totally impacted. I cleaned it out and tried to put some mineral oil up there but it was too late. I think it was a hen so this is even more devasting to me as I prefer to breed blues or lavenders.

 

[Stacykins]

My gosh Laura, the breed has not been good to you! They aren't usually so, delicate. It almost seems that if they can hatch, they usually do OKI lost a single chick earlier this year that was chronically pasty, but it happens occasionally it seems to people who raise chicks. I wish my egg fertility wasn't so bad again (six out of thirty hatched just recently), or else I'd send you some, if you wanted them.


These are chicks that I hatched and divided between a pair of broodies. The broodies are now raising them all as a pair, a great system so far! Any idea what the 'brownish' chipmunk colored chicks might grow into?

#1 Tuuufts



#1 Side/back



#2 Tufted blue



#3






#4 cleanfaced, same brown/chipmunk color




#5 same color


One blue not pictured, I guess I forgot!

 

[laura877]

I don't normally lose chicks either. In the horse society there was always a saying we had. It goes " its never the $300 horse that get hurt, just the $3,000 ones. For me its been about the same. The mutt chicks have been doing great. Stacy Iwould take again you got if you had them. I am so happy with these guys. So much so I hope there is something here that is of show quality. I checked out the show results from the Oct shows in Frankenmuth, Mi and didn't see any results for Araucanas for at least the last 3 years. I'm not sure if that means no one showed any or what. I really want to show something this year.

Your new set of chicks look just as great as the ones I got from you. Look at all those tufts. I think I had one chipmunk from you and I think that one grew up to be either one of the brown diamond patterned ones or the light gray that I think will be a silver laced one.

 

[hennesseyt]

Cute chicks. can you tell by looking at the chicks tufts the placement? Also can one assume a chick with large tufts will have good size tufts as an adult?

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

I have some free ranging hens that showed up with these. Too bad I don't know who the daddy is . Look at that beautiful brown one, tufts and all.