barred/cuckoo araucana? PIC ADDED PG 6

[pips&peeps]

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What about this comment you made?

I will never attend a meeting or a show and embarrass you with some off colored bird. I will never pay dues or sponsor club activities, or sponsor a kid.

ETA: On one hand you are saying how rude and snooty the club is and the next minute you want to help qualify a color?????​

 

[klf73]

Yes, this one was from Anne Charles. It looks like it is maybe a blue cuckoo? I will definitely post a pic when dh gets me the cord in the morning (he works some nights, so I can't find it

) I do have a pic when it was hatched and it has a white head spot, not sure if this pic shows it well, but I will try.

Oh, and about the lavenders, I have a REAL nice pair that I hatched from Harry. I have only 1 black ameraucana pullet so she will go with them. I am so looking forward to spring

Off topic, Jean, the silvers I hatched all ended up being pullets (3), go figure, and I only got 1 pullet out of the 4 wheaten/blue wheaten. I will probably just put them(silvers) with my layers since I have so many other projects going on. At what age do your birds usually lay? Mine are 18 weeks and just was curious about when I might see a blue egg?(ballpark is fine

)

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

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.

 

[onthespot]

yes, i want to qualify a color, because it is a color i like. I don't like the other colors except black and white.

 

[onthespot]

ok. thanks

 

[shelleyb1969]

I wish that hatching araucanas wasn't so "genetically challenging". I'd love to have a few hens.

 

[klf73]

oh, don't get me started on hatching these

. I went through 6 batches from 5 breeders and only have 2 rumpless/tufted and 3 tufted tailed, the rest that hatched were all clean faced/tailed. Oh, and the chick mortality(in shell) is hard to not feel bad about. These have been a BIG challenge

edited to say I probably have all cockerals

 

[shelleyb1969]

That's what I've heard Krista. So big congrats on your babies...they're lucky to be here, huh!

 

[pips&peeps]

Off topic, Jean, the silvers I hatched all ended up being pullets (3), go figure, and I only got 1 pullet out of the 4 wheaten/blue wheaten. I will probably just put them(silvers) with my layers since I have so many other projects going on. At what age do your birds usually lay? Mine are 18 weeks and just was curious about when I might see a blue egg?(ballpark is fine )

If I remember correctly around 22-24 weeks. It was right after the Nationals show last year.​

 

[herechickchick]

If you keep you breeding pens with a tufted roo and clean faced hens or the reverse then you can cut down significantly on the mortality rate. I am hoping to start hatching late winter early spring from my BBS bantam Araucana so I will see for myself how challenging it really is.