Oh i didnt know only 50% would have tufts, thats good to know....i was more so wondering how many would come out rumpless, i would imagine they are only have one rumpless each since the parents of the eggs are already F1 crosses. i believe they are Aracuana because this particular gentleman knows a lot about birds and has pretty much some of everything right down to pigeons, i did also see an extra rooster he had at another place that was half araucana and he did have tufts..and a tail lol. i guess in 20 days i will know what comes out of the shells.
This might be the most interesting hatch i've done so far with all the variables. Naked neck or not, tufted or not, rumpless or not lol. i will definately have to post some pics of the chicks. The tufted reminds me a lot of the Frizzle gene, i wonder what about those two mutations exactly makes them lethal.
Frazzles are the same, there is very rarely a frazzle that will survive and any smooth bird you breed with them will come out frizzle but they have other issues like frazzles feathers being very brittle and they will end up bald usually from the feathers breaking off so not really a very healthy looking bird. I've had several frazzle chicks die in shell, because the person i get local frizzle cochins from has all of their frizzles in on coop and the frizzle rooster gets the frizzle hens alot it seems...so far i have it narrowed down to the cochins that lay non-white eggs being the frazzle culprit so i dont incubate those anymore.
Nothing wrong. Just need the freeze at night and over 40 during the day. When it's about 20-30 at night (car windows frosted in the morning) and, temps start rising (sun helps too), the gallon milk jugs overflow by late afternoon on most trees. Some trees do, some don't. One year a tree that flows might not the next year. It's a crap shoot with tree selection but the need for the tree to freeze at night is a must.
