LF Lavender Rumpless Araucana (COLLONCA) Grow outs

[becky3086]

All I see are white shafts. SkyBlueEgg what color are the feather shafts, maybe I just can't see the "blue shafts" from the picture?

 

[SkyBlueEgg]

Hi Charlie,

Here is another picture. I know you have worked with the Lavenders a lot and that is one reason I posted her picture here. So, one of the things I should be looking for is white shafting? It looks to me like she has white shafting on her hackle feathers and some of those around her abdomen - maybe it is just the flash. I will have to check her again. I haven't ever had any blues this light and I am also used to the darker hackle feathers in my blues. What other indicators should I be looking for in a self-blue besides just waiting on the progeny test? She has just started to lay and depending on fertility I guess I will know a lot more in a month or two when her chicks start hatching. If not self-blue I am wondering if she is regular blue with dominant white??

Ann

 

[wilds of pa]

Hi Ann do you have any pic's of her as a chick?? i do see dark shafts on the wings, they are light but still look dark to me against the plumage.

camera flashes can play tricks , can you get a pic of the wings spread out. I will get a pic or two of our lav araucana wings today to post for reference.

Here you can see some ticking in this young pullet

Another pullet with almost no ticking

Double tufted/tailed cockerel, some ticking

 

[SkyBlueEgg]

Thanks for the pix - really nice little pullet

I would appreciate some pix of the wing spread out on your lavenders so that I can see the shafting. It has been suggested that my pullet could be a dun. Both the dun and lavender are genes that I have no experience with so the test breedings will be enlightening. I will see if I can get her caught in the next day or two and take a good look at her wing feathers and get some pix. Right now I am just trying to keep them all warm!

I am NOT used to below zero temps! It's darn cold out there!

Ann

 

[quailbrain]

A great aray of ages! Thank you for posting your pictures!

 

[Dustin Biery]

Hi Ann, glad to see you found your way here.

 

[SkyBlueEgg]

Hi Dustin!!! How are you??? You made it home safely from the show, I see.

Hope to see you in Pine Bluff in April with those same birds (or more).

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Charlie, Here is a picture of her primaries front and back side - I caught her and plucked a couple.

They are white on the front side and the back side. I was told that " If the shaft is white on top and black on the back it is a lavender. If the shaft is black on top and white on the back it is a blue." Neither applies, but I imagine that if she carries dominant white gene which is likely she would lighten in color and her feather shafts would be white just from that gene - just guessing here. Now that I know what to look for I will keep close track of her progeny and see how they turn out. I wish I had a good black cockerel to put her with but I just haven't raised one yet that I liked well enough to keep. I will get her figured out eventually.

Ann

 

[wilds of pa]

Hi Ann i don't think you can rely on the primaries alone as many young birds of different colors will have white primaries. I don't believe it is lavender, it could be a dun, but I'm unsure.

You will want to test mate her with any "good clean black male" just to see what you got or at least try to..

I will get some wing photos in the next day or so when i have some help to catch an take photos of them, however i did take some more photos of some of them running around in the coops..

Mars a(young cockerel) PS see the white quills throughout the body and shoulder areas

Couple others

 

[SkyBlueEgg]

I have been sending these pictures around to a few others to look at. Just heard back form 'Blackdotte' . . . He says "She looks Lavender to me, but could have a bit of gold, reduced to cream, breaking through."

So I now have a number of opinions - most say she is Lavender - I will know more when/and if her eggs start hatching. She has an olive green eye. What is the eye color on your lavenders Charlie?

Ann

 

[wilds of pa]

Ann the best thing to do will be to breed as you plan, but if she is from a closed flock of whites i truly don't believe it would be lavender..
i had thought maybe even a splash but i just don't know?

But you will know once you cross her to a black roo as all the offspring id think would be black carrying the lavender gene..however if it is a splash or light Andalusian blue you will get your typical colors as we all know from crossing her to a black roo....

She is a pretty bird.. is she bantam or large fowl??

The eye color on these lavender araucana are a grayish/hazel color.. most have dark legs, with yellow under..