Arucaunas hens or roo’s???

[Mumtoadiva]

Please can someone help me solve this dilemma. I hatched them from eggs thinking they were girls but I really haven’t got a clue.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

Where to start...
How old are these guys?
You appear to have at least one cockerel, depending on how many birds are represented in these pics.
Where are you located in the big world? That will change the breed standard for Araucana... BUT... your birds appear to have a poof on their heads, which as far as I know is not breed standard anywhere.
White Araucana should have yellow legs with no green on them.
In the US at least, Araucana should be rumpless. That means no tail feathers, no tail bump...
I guess where I'm going is that these guys don't appear to follow the standard for Araucana... How many eggs did you start with? How many hatched? Were none tufted? Also a US standard...
I can be honest in saying that I'm not as familiar with the UK or Australian standards for Araucana, but I'm at least familiar with the US standards.... and these guys don't follow it.

 

[Frazzemrat1]

for your perusement.
http://www.araucana.net/white-araucan-apa-and-aba/

 

[Mumtoadiva]

Where to start...
How old are these guys?
You appear to have at least one cockerel, depending on how many birds are represented in these pics.
Where are you located in the big world? That will change the breed standard for Araucana... BUT... your birds appear to have a poof on their heads, which as far as I know is not breed standard anywhere.
White Araucana should have yellow legs with no green on them.
In the US at least, Araucana should be rumpless. That means no tail feathers, no tail bump...
I guess where I'm going is that these guys don't appear to follow the standard for Araucana... How many eggs did you start with? How many hatched? Were none tufted? Also a US standard...
I can be honest in saying that I'm not as familiar with the UK or Australian standards for Araucana, but I'm at least familiar with the US standards.... and these guys don't follow it.

I am from the Uk and I purchased the eggs as fertile Arucauna bantam eggs. They were green/blue eggs. I did two hatches and had to grey chicks and two yellow infant one grey and one yellow from each hatch. I am only left with the two yellow now one is 4 weeks old the other is 8 weeks. I searched for this bread as they are good layers... but maybe I have two roo’s after all this lol. My daughter is going to be waiting a long time for eggs

 

[Mumtoadiva]

This is supposedly what I have

 

[Frazzemrat1]

http://www.thebritisharaucanaclub.co.uk/breed-standards/4588348314

Well, knowing your in the UK... really, that changes everything. I looked them up, and this is what I found... and yours may be full blooded Araucana, by UK standards.

Over acoss the pond, Blue eggs only, yellow legs (on the whites only) Rumpless only, no crest, no beards or muffs... Clean faced not allowed; the only show quality allowable are the tufted ones. Which makes life difficult for breeding due to the fact that the genes for the tufts are a lethal gene, so we have poor hatches.

So yes then... Looks like you do in fact have what you paid for. How many birds are represented in the pics? I see 3 pics with cockerels in them, but I wasn't sure if they were the same bird or not.

Oh, and here's my clean faced araucana pullet and my tufted araucana rooster... He's with SOP with the tufts, she's not.

 

[Table4Six]

8 week I'm 90% sure is a roo. His comb is already bright red and he has huge feet and thick legs. The other one is more tricky, because it's younger. But it also has a fairly red comb, so I'm leaning towards two cockerels. They're still quite young though, so I can't be 100% on either.

I am from the Uk and I purchased the eggs as fertile Arucauna bantam eggs. They were green/blue eggs. I did two hatches and had to grey chicks and two yellow infant one grey and one yellow from each hatch. I am only left with the two yellow now one is 4 weeks old the other is 8 weeks. I searched for this bread as they are good layers... but maybe I have two roo’s after all this lol. My daughter is going to be waiting a long time for eggs

They're beautiful!

 

[Frazzemrat1]

This is supposedly what I have

Well, you have white, not lavender!

 

[Table4Six]

Are these really bantam @Mumtoadiva? They look like full size from those pics.

 

[Mumtoadiva]

Thank you so much for all your help looks like I will need a lady now for my two boys