I had them and my problem was they were too prolific. They liked to peck silkies on the head, and hatched too many tufted, rumpless chicks. I sold them all because I didn't have room for them all. This was back before putrina killed my chickens and I had way more silkies than I do now. Mine laid vivid blue eggs, no doubt that they were sky blue. Dave's eggs are sky blue too except for the one hen. He may have culled her by now. I hope not.
Cathryn
rainbowsilkies MI
rainbowsilkies MI
From: carolyn <trulynubians2001@yahoo.com>
To: CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 7:44 AM
Subject: [CHICKENS-101] Re: araucanas
Cathryn, I only ever saw one group of araucana at a show and spent quite a bit of time talking to the breeder. (side note, these were white and the cleanest, whitest birds I have ever seen). Anyway, Auracanas are very hard to breed. Something about having to de-feather them around the vent. Just a thought to anyone who thinks they might want to try them. The standard for both the ameraucanas and the araucanas calls for a blue egg which is probably why Dave didn't like the off colored egg. I had an ameraucana
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