Since this is about araucanas I will talk about them. About 5 years ago when we had both bantam and largefowl araucanas we had a rooster hop the fence kinda like Dipsy and her barred rock. Long story short we saw the bantam barred rock doing the deed with some black tufted rumpless hens so we fixed the fence and stopped collecting eggs from the hens for awhile.
After the eggs that were in the incubator hatched out there were about 7 or 8 chicks that hatched out barred. Out of those chicks 1 was both tufted and rumpless, the others were typical of araucanas, they had tails and tufts or were smooth faced rumpless or rumpless with uneven tufts, we decided to keep the one hen and see how she turned out, the others were culled.
The hen turned out to be great with good barring, great tufts, laid blue eggs with a slight tint of green, and red earlobes (the blacks had white in the lobes). We showed her for awhile and tried to breed her, she did good at the shows but when bred to our black rooster didnt produce fertile eggs. We sold her on eggbid (I forget to whom) they said that they were going to try her with some of their roosters and sure enough they got good eggs from her.
Since the bird in question is barred and has araucana type that makes in an araucana. No other breed has no tail and tufts so that makes it a non-recognized color araucana.
