Since I've been talking smack about him in other posts (mainly his insane morning aggression towards the hens) I thought I'd properly introduce my new roo and show some pictures. I was wanting to get a blue egg gene rooster this summer, but really didn't want an ameracauna because I've heard the roosters tend to be aggressive, and read cream legbars were even worse so I hadn't fully commited to the idea. I was flogged quite a bit as a farm kid by my mom's RIR and WL roosters, so that's why I was so leary. One evening my sister sent me a link off a facebook poultry site of a TRUE araucana cockerel for sale an hour and a half away from me. I would have never thought I'd find an araucana around here so I instantly emailed the seller and I was pleased with what she had to say about him and told her SOLD! The seller had purchased hatching eggs last year and she was selling off the extra cockerels.
Honestly, I was NOT prepared to bring a new chicken to the property with it being the dead of winter and my integration coop frozen to the ground in the chicken run. But you know how that goes!
Five days later I made the 3 hour round trip drive in a gas guzzling SUV for a $10 rooster. Also managed to pick up a screw in my tire somewhere along the journey and woke up to a flat tire the next morning. My $10 rooster turned into a $60 rooster, factoring in gas and tire repair!
So here is Cholo, my black araucana roo with a lot of leakage. I don't care he is off color since I am only after his blue egg gene. Aside from his insane morning horniness when he tries to rape all the girls for the first 10 minutes every morning he is a good roo so far. He is always looking around for predators (he thinks everything is a predator) and calls the girls over when he finds something good to eat. He's not shown any aggression towards me yet, he actually seems scared of me. But he is small (I had no idea araucanas were smaller than standard breeds) so I have no fear of him whatsoever. I would like to hatch out eggs from him and my 2 EEs that lay blue eggs (they are 1/2 ameraucana 1/2 brown leghorn) if my australorp Peck goes broody again this summer. Oh, and he had the most perfect, beautiful crow!
Honestly, I was NOT prepared to bring a new chicken to the property with it being the dead of winter and my integration coop frozen to the ground in the chicken run. But you know how that goes!
Five days later I made the 3 hour round trip drive in a gas guzzling SUV for a $10 rooster. Also managed to pick up a screw in my tire somewhere along the journey and woke up to a flat tire the next morning. My $10 rooster turned into a $60 rooster, factoring in gas and tire repair!
So here is Cholo, my black araucana roo with a lot of leakage. I don't care he is off color since I am only after his blue egg gene. Aside from his insane morning horniness when he tries to rape all the girls for the first 10 minutes every morning he is a good roo so far. He is always looking around for predators (he thinks everything is a predator) and calls the girls over when he finds something good to eat. He's not shown any aggression towards me yet, he actually seems scared of me. But he is small (I had no idea araucanas were smaller than standard breeds) so I have no fear of him whatsoever. I would like to hatch out eggs from him and my 2 EEs that lay blue eggs (they are 1/2 ameraucana 1/2 brown leghorn) if my australorp Peck goes broody again this summer. Oh, and he had the most perfect, beautiful crow!
I absolutely love Araucanas and I plan to breed them when I have my own property. I will God willing be getting 2 Araucana pullets this spring to restart my flock. The morning mating fest is totally normal, he will eventually grow out of it. My Light Brahma cockerel starting doing it when he was 6 months old and stopped a month later. I’m really curious to see what his chicks will look like
