Y'all gotta look at Salmon

[alan]

I just visited the club site and saw show winner "Ginger Red Pullet"

Looks Identical to Yetti
http://www.browneggblueegg.com/Yetti.html

Hello - the chick color of the SALMON color is a total GIVEAWAY. Search for the chick color - perhaps feather site. I've already done a bout with a judge who was so certain until I mentioned the chick color and sent photos. I never heard back from him ....

[MKG]

Hi Alan, this is Mike from Wisconsin. Salmon color is basically silver wheaten with autosomal red and probably Mahogany. I have some of those now, as they are the silver counterpart of the APA Black Breasted Red (Cubalaya color). I show the split males (S, s+) as golden duckwings as that is what they look like. I took a look at your Yetti. I'm seeing some stippling on her top, which seems to me indicative of a wild type (e+), dominant wheaten (e>W) cross. The dominant wheaten part means her chick down would have been off white, possibly with a few spots, not the chipmunk stripe color. I think that is what you were saying, right? Can't tell if she is silver (S) or gold (s+) from the picture. If the former, she would throw males with silver or lemon in the hackles, depending on the male she was mated with.
Where are you located now?

[alan]

Mike. You sure do know your Araucanas and colors. I think it was you first told Kate and I about shafting in Silver Duckwings.

Might be other genes in there too we did no selecting to get to Yetti. As I said, find pictures of Salmon chicks. Those are Yetti's chicks too... I think feather site and Salmon Favorolles is the spot.

On the other hand, maybe I shouldn't be sharing this key of the genetic puzzle. I should be nastily competitive. Some genes not expressed in the adult plumage color are obvious in the chick down colors. I got rid of red in my ... in 1 generation.

[alan]

Again, you know what you're doing.

We also showed Yeti's male offspring as golden duckwings. They did rather well but compare a golden duckwing male to a salmon Favorelle male and the difference is obvious.

In answer to your question. I had to leave the boringly perfect weather of San Diego and spent a penalty winter in Maryland. We got 26" of snow one weekend and 24" the middle of the next week. It was nice heavy wet snow and not the fluffy easy to shovel variety. Lucky for us snow knows how to melt in Maryland. Wisconsin is a different story with a concept of January thaw.

[MKG]

Good to hear from you Alan. We did have kind of a miserable winter here, even for Wisconsin. But this week it's mid-forties and rain, so the snowbanks are at least partially melting. Two of my four Araucana bantam females are laying, so I'm setting eggs. Actually have a few Araucanas hatched too. All are rumpless, but the one tufted one managed to wrap a string around his tongue and he was pretty wasted before I caught it as he was basically tethered to the wall with the string - which was from a piece of duct tape used to shore up the brooder wall. Wierd. Let me know when you are ready to start showing again - I'll have some stock for you.

[alan]

Great, I really appreciate the offer. I'll definitely be in touch because getting a place with Araucanas is at the top of my list.

Alan