Araucana thread anyone?

[KirstenJL]

No problem Stacykins. Thanks Debi!

Kirsten

 

[LC Fancy]

I bought 10 auracana hatching eggs from debi! THEY ARE HATCHING!!! soo far i have two out. Iam pretty sure one is cleanfaced and the other is double tuffed! yayyyyyyy hopefuly the rest hatch as well i have 5 more picking!

 

[smoothmule]

Yay! Post what you hatch out

 

[Ray_n_Debi]

I bought 10 auracana hatching eggs from debi! THEY ARE HATCHING!!! soo far i have two out. Iam pretty sure one is cleanfaced and the other is double tuffed! yayyyyyyy hopefuly the rest hatch as well i have 5 more picking!

Go chickies GO!!!

 

[Ksane]

I bought 10 auracana hatching eggs from debi! THEY ARE HATCHING!!! soo far i have two out. Iam pretty sure one is cleanfaced and the other is double tuffed! yayyyyyyy hopefuly the rest hatch as well i have 5 more picking!

Congrats! I've got 7 babies from Debi, you're going to love their gentle sweet personalities!

 

[Volkova]

Hi guys! I'm hoping this is the Araucana thread. I have 2 Araucanas in my flock, whom I have yet to name.

I bought them along with some Buff Orpingtons when they were pullets. They are nearly coming of age, hopefully just a week or two till the first blueish egg.



As you can tell, she is not the most 'typical' of Araucanas. I believe she is a Black-Tailed Araucana, and are extremely rare where I come from. I thought she looked incredibly unusual and I read they had an amazing history, so that got my attention. After keeping these for a while, I can definitely say they aren't the friendliest of birds but are quite intelligent. For example, when I hold a small piece of bread between my fingers, the Buffs take ages trying to peck at it, meanwhile the Araucana pecks my fingers lightly so that I will let go and then runs away with it to eat at its own pace. Despite being a bit pecky and flighty, they are always alert and active, they come running straight to their fence when I appear. They will also protect the buffs from our rogue bluebell hen, who always finds a way to get into the Araucana's and Orpington's coop to lay, the Araucanas, although smaller, quickly scare her off if she gets nasty with the young Orps.

Here is a picture of the gang!

 

[Ksane]

Volkova, not sure if she's Araucana, she may be an Easter Egger which would explain her awesome colors. Beautiful bird.

Alright, here's the pics I've been trying to get sized down to post of my Ray-n-Debi hatch, I hatched 7. The weirdest thing-when they were around 4 wks old I swear they had partial tails because it looked like feathers were sticking out. But now? Only 2 are tailed. The others are rumpless. That's so weird, it's like their tails melted. I think I only have 2 girls out of 7, which is a bummer but these boys are so pretty and so sweet.
I'm not sure what the Rumpless Black one is-male or female, can anyone tell? That one has blonde streaks on his/her neck, I like that.
And the one? The Buff Splash? Such a cool color. I'm hoping it's a girl but don't know. Anyone else tell?
They're 10 wks old now. The 1st picture is the 2 that I'm sure are girls.
Debi, you should be proud of these guys. Initially I was bummed because 5 out of 7 were boys. But they're so beautiful and so sweet and gentle. I'm debating on trying to place some but there's only 1 I *might* be able to part with....and what's one more anwyay?

 

[draye]

Volkova, not sure if she's Araucana, she may be an Easter Egger which would explain her awesome colors. Beautiful bird.

Alright, here's the pics I've been trying to get sized down to post of my Ray-n-Debi hatch, I hatched 7. The weirdest thing-when they were around 4 wks old I swear they had partial tails because it looked like feathers were sticking out. But now? Only 2 are tailed. The others are rumpless. That's so weird, it's like their tails melted. I think I only have 2 girls out of 7, which is a bummer but these boys are so pretty and so sweet.
I'm not sure what the Rumpless Black one is-male or female, can anyone tell? That one has blonde streaks on his/her neck, I like that.
And the one? The Buff Splash? Such a cool color. I'm hoping it's a girl but don't know. Anyone else tell?
They're 10 wks old now. The 1st picture is the 2 that I'm sure are girls.
Debi, you should be proud of these guys. Initially I was bummed because 5 out of 7 were boys. But they're so beautiful and so sweet and gentle. I'm debating on trying to place some but there's only 1 I *might* be able to part with....and what's one more anwyay?

Note where this person is from.
In the UK that could very well be an Araucana.

I'm trying to create my on Crested green egg layers ( i say green some of my EE's lay blue eggs).

 

[mendocinosunris]

Hi guys! I'm hoping this is the Araucana thread. I have 2 Araucanas in my flock, whom I have yet to name.

I bought them along with some Buff Orpingtons when they were pullets. They are nearly coming of age, hopefully just a week or two till the first blueish egg.



As you can tell, she is not the most 'typical' of Araucanas. I believe she is a Black-Tailed Araucana, and are extremely rare where I come from. I thought she looked incredibly unusual and I read they had an amazing history, so that got my attention. After keeping these for a while, I can definitely say they aren't the friendliest of birds but are quite intelligent. For example, when I hold a small piece of bread between my fingers, the Buffs take ages trying to peck at it, meanwhile the Araucana pecks my fingers lightly so that I will let go and then runs away with it to eat at its own pace. Despite being a bit pecky and flighty, they are always alert and active, they come running straight to their fence when I appear. They will also protect the buffs from our rogue bluebell hen, who always finds a way to get into the Araucana's and Orpington's coop to lay, the Araucanas, although smaller, quickly scare her off if she gets nasty with the young Orps.

Here is a picture of the gang!

Pretty bird - I love the crest!
Here's the UK Araucana standard. From that, she looks kinda like the description of the Black Red. Just a guess on my part.

 

[Kassaundra]

Very interesting I knew the UK version of araucana were tailed and muffed insteat of tufted but didn't know they had a small crest too.