Comment reconnaître un coq araucana ?

Comment reconnaître un coq araucana ?

Le coq et la poule araucana peuvent tous deux avoir les motifs de couleur décrits ci-dessus. Les différences entre eux résident dans la taille, les mâles étant plus grands, et dans la crête. Comme pour la plupart des races de poules, le coq a une crête plus prononcée que la poule.

Comment reconnaître une poule araucana ?

C'est une volaille légère, sans queue, avec un léger caractère de combattant. De chaque côté de la tête se trouvent des plumes remontantes, se détachant nettement de la tête. Les araucanas n'ont pas de barbillons, ce qui permet de les différencier d'autres races (par ex.

Comment reconnaître poule ou coq poussin ?

Les plumes du camail (du cou) sont plus longues et plus pointues chez le coq ; plus rondes et plus courtes chez la poule. Les lancettes apparaissent seulement chez le coq. Quand on les voit pousser : aucun doute, il s'agit bien d'un poussin mâle !

What is the Araucana chicken?

• The ability to lay blue eggs was the main reason for breeding Araucana chicken. It is often considered as a dual purpose chicken breed which is suitable for both eggs production and for meat. There are many color varieties of this breed.

What are the Breeds Standards for the Araucana?

• Breed standards for the Araucana vary from country to country. It may have unusual tufts of feathers on the ears, and may be rumpless, without a tail and tail-bone; in the United States it may for this reason be known as the South American Rumpless. Both ear-tufts and rumplessness are caused by lethal genes,...

What is the difference between a collonca and an Araucana?

• The Collonca is a rumpless bird that lays blue eggs while the Quetros chicken lays brown eggs but has ear tufts. Apparently Professor Castello thought that the Araucana was a breed rather than a strain of bird and so the Araucana was described as a breed when they were introduced to the world in 1918.

What color are Araucana eggs?

• Araucana eggs are blue, a very pretty blue, but not as blue as robin eggs. Different hens lay different hues of blue but older hens lay lighter blue eggs than when they were pullets. The first eggs in a laying season are bluer than the eggs late in the season. Show quality Araucanas are a challenge to breed.