Help, I don't know what this is!

[Arklady]

True Aracaunas have no tail. What I see is you have a nice looking Ameracauna, if it lays anything but blue greenish eggs... it is a nice looking EE... There is a lot of controversy over the Aracaunas. Aracaunas are tailless... and because of the many off shoots of this across the US they have finally had to adopt the True onto the name of Aracauna.

True Aracaunas aka Aracaunas have no tail.
http://www.araucanaclubofamerica.org/index.htm

Ameracaunas have SOME tufts by the ear, plus the tail.
Happy hunting the facts. I did it just for my own knowlege. You can check the Ameracauna website they tell the difference. http://www.ameraucana.org/index.html

Arklady

 

[hinkjc]

Arklady, you are correct in stating that the standard for Araucana is tufted and rumpless, however when you breed them there is always a chance of tailed and partial tailed offspring. Every bird does not hatch tufted and rumpless, that is what makes them so challenging to breed. That is a true araucana because it came from my araucana flock, even though it is not show quality (rumpless).

As I keep repeating..Ameraucana do not have tufts..they have muffs and a beard. If you have experience with these two breeds, you can clearly see the difference.

Sara - it will be pea combed and they are a small breed in comparison to other standard size breeds of chickens. Roosters only get up to 5 lbs and hens 4 lbs. This bird could be matched up with a nice clean faced rumpless rooster to produce show quality offspring. Many araucana breeders started with much less than this.

Edited to add - if you like to read, check out this site on Araucana. Lots of great info. http://www.araucanabreeder.freeservers.com/photo4.html

Jody

 

[sara]

Jody, thanks. I noticed that it was small from when it hatched so I honestly thought it was a baby from my bantam hen, until I noticed those tufts. Do you hatch any out yourself? Would you have something unrelated at some point to go with him/her. No rush, maybe in the spring.

 

[hinkjc]

Sara, once you figure out what gender she is and if you would like to have a pair, I am sure I can match up something to help you out as we keep multiple breeding groups of Araucana. Be sure to check out that site I added, it has some really good info on the development of the breed and how we came to the acceptance of the Modern Araucana in the American Poultry Association. This info is not easy to find sometimes, but it is valuable in understanding the breed.

Jody

 

[sara]

Thanks Jody! I read the website and it was very informative. I also thinking comparing pictures that I might have a little hen. She look like some of the pullet pictures on there, and has no hint of any color in her little comb that I was able to see. Being that she is 8 weeks old, would I be able to tell her gender with any certainty?

 

[chickenwoods]

I dont know what the heck an araucana is?,maybee you meen anaconda...but they look more like baby chickens to me LOL!!! excuse my humor..lol im sorry