Rumpless araucana cross?

[J&Kfeatheredfowl]

hey all, I’m curious to see what would happen if a rumpless breed, like an araucana was crossed with a silkie?

Anyone have experience with rumpless araucana crosses?

Thanks in advance

 

[LilJoe]

All I know is that the offspring moght be rumpless. There is also a possibility that they wont have beards or tufts. The offspring will also most likely lay light blue or white eggs.

Hope that helped,

LilJoe

 

[LilJoe]

(I was talking about Araucana × Silkie)

 

[LilJoe]

Also, they will be smooth feathered

 

[J&Kfeatheredfowl]

Thanks, for Christmas this year I’m starting an allotment and getting our first chickens, and some time in the future I would like an araucana rooster and silkie hens so..... maybe I’ll have the answer sat in my hands one day

 

[sawilliams]

It would be interesting a rumpless silkie... I would wonder is the rumpless gene is dominate or recessive? It might take at least second generation crossing like brother to sister, or getting a silkie rooster 2 or 3 generations down the line to breed back in before you get good mixes of both birds

 

[lazy gardener]

I copied excerpts from the following article. The rumpless trait is not without problems that affect viability, both prior to and after hatch. For this reason, this is a trait that would be immediately be culled from my flock if it were to inadvertently show up. That being said, there are as many different breeds of chickens as there are types of flock keepers or management styles. What floats my boat, most certainly won't float yours!

http://www.araucana.com/Rumplessness.htm

The rumpless condition also had an influence on viability and fertility (Dunn and Landauer, 1934). The proportion of rumpless embryos dying between the 17th to 21st days of incubation was always higher than expected, and the proportion of rumpless chicks that hatched was lower than expected. This applied to both the complete and intermediate types. For the complete type this reduction in viability was about five percent, They were unable to determine if viability was better with the intermediate type. Increased mortality continued posthatch with 12.1 percent of rumpless and intermediate chicks dying during the first two months as opposed to 7.2 percent of the normal chicks.

Fertility problems resulted purely mechanical reasons. Lack of tails which act as balancers in the copulation act resulted in incomplete copulations. Also very heavy fluff about the cloaca was an additional handicap. Fertility was as low as 17 percent for rumpless x rumpless, and as high as 71.2 percent for normal female x intermediate male. Fertility was always better when the females were normal . . . "

 

[lazy gardener]

Silkie trait, as I understand it has a lethal gene attached to it, Add the negatives associated with the vaulted skull and it's something that I would not allow into my gene pool.