Quechua Thread

[fuzzybutt love]

Lol.

Anxious for spring. I am able to finally get a nice coop this year. Depending on what happens i * might * join the conservation effort? My prototype / companion hen was lost at the vets a month ago during a routine surgery. Of the ones i have left there are 3 hens and a roo i am still attached to and her sister is still with me. Devastated id an understatement. None of her final eggs hatched. I'll try some of her sisters eggs as soon as the bator is free, depending on what omes of that? Also i need to find an avian vet that is versed in outdoor bird illnesses. I would be breeding away from the wildness though, too many predators for even the best to survive. (Neighbor lost her feral flock mid summer).
What i could promise is a human friendly burd tbat will charm their way into popularity? But it depends of i can focus on it or not; i will not undertake it until i can do the conservation justice.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

(My original mission was to continue and expand a particular line of my favorite ees) This has been going 3-4 years. Mine being bred for companion purposes losing one is terrible and hard. Originally i was out breeding to carefully selected roos of mixed friendly parentage to accomplish this; if regressing back to the quecha will give me thd type of bird i want i might breed them instead. I can't explain the personality except perhaps a long haired cat??? Always wants held and don't pick on each other in confinement even if one is sick.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

You've all gone quiet.....is that a nooooo to any possible quecha eggs?
This what i mean about the blr blending so well:

 

[poularde]

You have some pretty birds there. I have some birds that blend well with my environment too.


I am not sure if you will find hat you are looking for with the Quechua. I have not found them to be friendly well not friendly like a rag-doll cat. I find my Colloncas/Araucanas to be ones that like to be held. Actually I have a Quechua/Ameraucana that likes to be held.

I look forward to hearing other people's experience.

 

[MA Mama]

I find my Quechua curious and friendly, but not affectionate or looking to be held. They are very smart.

Eggs are on ebay...

http://www.ebay.com/itm/271436110552?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649

 

[austintxchick]

Thanks to Penny Hen, I just found out what I thought was an Ameracuana, is actually looking like it's a Quechua. First I had this chick who turned out to be a cockerel so I had to trade him for a pullet. He was so pretty and I bet he's going to be gorgeous! His legs are slate blueish color but look more yellow in this picture.





We had to trade him for his sister yesterday. She's very sweet and loves to be held.

 

[Penny Hen]

Thanks to Penny Hen, I just found out what I thought was an Ameracuana, is actually looking like it's a Quechua. First I had this chick who turned out to be a cockerel so I had to trade him for a pullet. He was so pretty and I bet he's going to be gorgeous! His legs are slate blueish color but look more yellow in this picture.





We had to trade him for his sister yesterday. She's very sweet and loves to be held.

Well Quechua is sort of a family name. All of the following breeds are in the Quechua family: Auracana (tailless, ear-tufts and blue eggs), Ameraucana (tailed, bearded, blue eggs), Easter Eggers (tailed, bearded and clean faced, blue, pink, green, olive and brown eggs), Olive Eggers a variant of Easter Egger, Black Olmec Quechua (tailed, colored eggs [sorry the exact shades are slipping my memory]), Collanca (tailless, bearded or cleanfaced, blue eggs), Huastec (tailed, crested, stone colored eggs), Quechua de Aretes "Quechua with earrings" (tailed, eartufts, blue eggs), British and Australian Auracana (tailed, crested, blue eggs), Catona (tailed, crested with colored eggs).

I have probably missed at least two breeds that are in the family so any of the rest of you want to complete or correct my memory chime in. I know that one of the breeds listed can lay a tea colored egg but I forgot which one.

I love the alternate name that Resolution gave to Easter Eggers. He calls them North American Improved Quechua.

The Cream Legbars are distantly related but other than the blue egg gene and the crest have lost the trademark look of the Quechua.
Toni-Marie has bought the descendants of the first Sumatra import from University of GA. They lay a robin blue egg. This points to them being related to the Quechua.
Hopefully I haven't inundated you with too much info too fast. I find them facinating and the fact that you can place all the breeds together and it is like looking at a family reunion picture. You can see the family resemblance running through all the cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Penny Henny, where does the quetro fit into that family, if at all?

 

[austintxchick]

Well Quechua is sort of a family name. All of the following breeds are in the Quechua family: Auracana (tailless, ear-tufts and blue eggs), Ameraucana (tailed, bearded, blue eggs), Easter Eggers (tailed, bearded and clean faced, blue, pink, green, olive and brown eggs), Olive Eggers a variant of Easter Egger, Black Olmec Quechua (tailed, colored eggs [sorry the exact shades are slipping my memory]), Collanca (tailless, bearded or cleanfaced, blue eggs), Huastec (tailed, crested, stone colored eggs), Quechua de Aretes "Quechua with earrings" (tailed, eartufts, blue eggs), British and Australian Auracana (tailed, crested, blue eggs), Catona (tailed, crested with colored eggs).

I have probably missed at least two breeds that are in the family so any of the rest of you want to complete or correct my memory chime in. I know that one of the breeds listed can lay a tea colored egg but I forgot which one.

I love the alternate name that Resolution gave to Easter Eggers. He calls them North American Improved Quechua.

The Cream Legbars are distantly related but other than the blue egg gene and the crest have lost the trademark look of the Quechua.
Toni-Marie has bought the descendants of the first Sumatra import from University of GA. They lay a robin blue egg. This points to them being related to the Quechua.
Hopefully I haven't inundated you with too much info too fast. I find them facinating and the fact that you can place all the breeds together and it is like looking at a family reunion picture. You can see the family resemblance running through all the cousins, aunts, uncles, grandparents, etc.

I agree, so interesting! You can definitely see resemblances. I'm looking forward to seeing the egg color on this one. So I'll just call her an EE with Quechua coloring. I may contact the breeder and see if she can tell me where these came from.

This girl definitely has a beard though.

 

[Penny Hen]

Penny Henny, where does the quetro fit into that family, if at all?

That is one of the ones I haven't read much about. I know the name but that is about it.