WOOHOO!!! They are mine, mine, MINE!!!!

[Moonwalker]

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He doesn't have a tail, that's MY hair behind him! When we got him (at an auction!) I thought he had been in a fight and had his tail feathers plucked. Is there such a thing as a Banty Araucana? He's tiny, but beats the heck out of the big roos and we have a couple of roos from the last batch of eggs we hatched about 4-5 months ago that have enough of his coloring to think they are his. They all have tails, tho.

This one has his coloring, but he's bigger, and has a tail, and no ear puffs.

 

[flyingmonkeypoop]

Yes, there are bantam are large fowl araucanas. If you look at feathersite, there are several pictures. The no tail is supposed to be semi-dominant, when we crossed ours to other birds we got some with tails and some without. His chicks should lay blue eggs, the roosters carry the blue egg gene.

 

[Moonwalker]

Cool! We have some pullets that are about 2 months old. Not sure if any are his yet. We lost most of the batch that one I put the pic of to rats. We have since gone on a MAJOR rat vendetta! We had almost no rat sightings for months, then this past week we lost a blue silkie hen and a banty buff cochin hen to them. I have set out traps and bait for them. I hate rats! Except for pet ones!