barred/cuckoo araucana? PIC ADDED PG 6

[klf73]

Ok, finally figured it out a different way

see the barring on the tail area?

 

[Solsken Farm]

Wow. Adorable. Love the tufts. Sure looks like barring to me.

 

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi Krista! That's a great-looking youngster!
If it were here, I'd call it a 'Tufted rumpless cuckoo blue-egger' and tell the 'Club' to go pee-up-a-rope.

Lisa

 

[geareduplyn]

Krista, I must have about 15 or 20 colored almost exactly the same. For some reason all the cockerels are tufted and the pullets clean faced almost like a sex linked trait. I'm setting up a breeding pen of them in the next few days, so we will find out for sure if they will breed true. It's possible that your Ameraucanas could be cockerels, because my line of Ameraucanas have very tight pea combs.

 

[amazondoc]

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None of my splash araucanas have spotted legs. I'll have to go look at them in the morning to really remember, but I think two have yellow legs and one maybe slate.

 

[ksacres]

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Why didn't I think of that?

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

I say show it as a blue cuckoo, the barring isnt that distinct. You could easily make one cross and get better barring and still have no tail and tufts.

 

[geareduplyn]

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Really?

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Yes really, lol. Since she is tufted/rumpless with a pea comb and blue cuckoo and yellow legs if you crossed her with a barred rock cock with good barring you should get 50/50 blue and black barred, the legs would be yellow, the chicks should all have pea combs, more than half would be rumpless and some would be tufted. Then you could cross the best one back to blacks/blues and get more that better match the araucanas. If you got a good barred male you could cross it to BBR/wild colored araucana hens and get creles.

 

[geareduplyn]

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I wish I lived in a perfect world also. How do I get admitted? LOL