Arucaunas hens or roo’s???

[Mumtoadiva]

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

I thought it was because I was being generous with the meal worms that will explain it xx

 

[Table4Six]

 

[deepbluesea]

Beautiful! You'll need a bunch of ladies if you're going to keep both boys.

 

[Sneebsey]

I'm from the UK, and our Araucana do look similar to what you have, @Mumtoadiva . Unfortunately, however, whilst your birds have yellow legs, the breed standard for all Araucana colours here requires slate legs (other than cuckoo, which cannot possess slate legs). I don't understand quite how they have yellow legs, as slate results from a white-skinned bird, dominant over yellow-skinned, without a dermal melanin inhibitor. Yellow results from a yellow-skinned bird with a dermal melanin inhibitor. Whilst they are handsome boys, if you are looking to breed Araucanas to the standard, you would be wise not to use these; consider breeding them for an olive-egger or easter-egger project instead, or just start fresh with a new batch of eggs.

Here are three of my British Araucana hens; a Lavender, a Black, and an off-coloured Blue.

 

[Mumtoadiva]

It seems the younger one has darker legs and I’m still wondering if it’s a hen or roo lol