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    Free range breed advice

    One of the hens with bare backs on a 40C summer mid day. It was worse than it looks in the photo. As you can see, there is barely any redness on her back
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    Free range breed advice

    I see. Even more impressive that they manage to survive so well at such a young age! Hopefully they brood soon
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    Free range breed advice

    That’s a fair concern. I know that any of the hens here that had somewhat bare backs last summer due to overbreeding didn’t seem to show any discomfort. Their skin was slightly more red than usual, but I didn’t observe any issues beyond that. I imagine it works similarly for the Turkens, if not...
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    Free range breed advice

    You guys are making a pretty convincing case for the Turkens :D . The birds we have here would definitely not be able to do that, so that’s quite admirable. Do you know if the hens brood naturally and manage to raise broods successfully?
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    Free range breed advice

    Wow! That sounds pretty great. A few cockerels like that would would almost be able to stand up to a fox! Certainly up to any older bully hens (which helps when raising chicks as well)
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    Free range breed advice

    Thanks. Very interesting read. So they definitely seem like they can handle a lot. The original chickens certainly did. Now it’s a matter of whether or not the slightly inbred versions we have today can do the same. Seems like I need to rethink of the Araucana, whatever the strain, as a breed...
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    Free range breed advice

    Thanks for that. It does go against my “not interfering” rule. I wouldn’t be completely opposed to removing any pure Araucana males from the gene pool and only keeping the females, but that’s as far as I’m willing to go. Perris is probably right, as per usual (thanks for keeping me in check...
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    Free range breed advice

    That’s good to hear; I hope they can still stand their ground though Yeah, I’m not there yet:lol:. But if I can’t find any reasons as to why they wouldn’t be good additions, we might get there at some point
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    Free range breed advice

    That’s encouraging to hear. As previously stated, I much prefer the look of the UK Araucana. Do you think they would do OK over here? I worry a lot about the summer temps. I give no extra help to the birds during the summer, and I would prefer that to stay the same. Yeah, I’ve read that too...
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    Free range breed advice

    Yeah, I’ve read that as well, and I’m equally sceptical. Would be a very interesting behaviour if it were true. I wonder if this delayed brooding leads to more success when raising the chicks. We had quite a few of RSLs here, and none ever went broody. Over half of them got to the 4 and 5 year...
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    Free range breed advice

    The promising stuff continues! Awesome little guy. I’ll have to get used to the no neck feathers thing, but them having less feathers on their body would make them excellent for the summer temps here
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    Falling Down Heights, my daily life

    Well let’s hope it’ll be one!
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    Free range breed advice

    I have, and I think there’s some great info on there. I went the route of posting a thread of my own, as I sometimes feel like a nuisance on other people’s threads, derailing and asking too many questions :p . I admit I have not checked the thread in some time though. I did have what I can only...
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    Free range breed advice

    We have the rumpless variety here, some tufted and some completely clean faced. Though I have found the UK Araucanas available here as well. I must say I prefer them since they look more ‘natural’, but I fear that they are not as heat tolerant or flighty. Leaning towards the rumpless variety...
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    New Member

    Welcome! Your photos are amazing! Beautiful birds too. Yes, definitely check out some of the contests, I think you’ll have a lot of success there. If you’re interested, do visit us in the Europe thread! https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/peeps-in-europe.1288348/ Hope you enjoy being an...
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