Araucana Profile : The Blue-Green Layer from South America

 

I saw my brother in law lays the green and blue shelled egg. I though the chicken unique. In a term of time, we suspected the chicken is a Burma descent that lays green eggs. 

In western country, a famous of the blue-green egg layer is Araucana. this chicken come from chili, south American. This egg is valuable due its unique and use as the Easter egg. The chicken is also developed in United States that is called Ameraucana. 

The chicken has eat tuft that make the chicken unique look. The are available in black, white, and blue shades plumage. some chicken also "suffers" lack of tail or rumples. it makes they look short. 

The chicken has small pea comb. so not worry the chicken got frostbite. the chickens is suitable for cold region due the chicken comes from cold region too. 

The chicken medium size, Roster weighs 2,7-3,2 kilogram while hen weighs 2,2-2,7 kilogram. Bantam is much lighter, weighing 740 to 850 g for roster and 680-790 g. 

This chicken is an exhibited chicken , either rumples or tailed (the chicken with tail). it may good too for your backyard too. 

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New Hampshire Red: The brother of Rhode Island Red

New Hampshire red is a famous dual purpose chicken. It is almost similar with Rhode Island Red.  The cock is 9.5 pound in weight. The female is smaller which is 6.5 pound in weight. The cockerel weighs 7.5 pound and the pullet weighs 5.5 pound. The color of the fowl is brown to red. It often fades in the sunshine. It has blood red single comb, which the cock is bigger than the hen. There are some point at the edge of comb. The beak and the shanks are yellow in color. The skin of the chicken is red.


This chicken is developed from Rhode Island Red. Before 1935, American breeder Association did not recognize this chicken strain. People are difficult to distinguish New Hampshire to The Rhode Island. The aim of the bird development is to provide the fast meat. 

The chicken is the prolific layer. The hen can lay at six month age. The productive layer up to two years. The layer can lay up to 220  eggs in a year. Like the Rhode, They lay brown eggs, or even darker brown  ones. The female of New Hampshire is also good mother, meaning the hen can hatch its eggs. The owners do not have to provide incubator to hatch its egg. 

The male chicken has many meats. It can provide the meat fast. Some breeder company use this chicken as broiler parent. They cross New Hampshire with other best chicken.

It is characterized by the brood body then the ancestor red jungle fowl or Gallus bankiva. The tail is short relative to its body. It is black beetle in color. Once light shine the tail, the color looks green and purple. 

This chicken is aggressive so you should be careful with this chicken and the roster is also territorial. You should not raise two or more rosters in a flock.

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Ameraucana Profile

Ameraucana is a rarely chciken breed whose has blue egg. Most chicken lays brown or white eggs. The ancestor of Ameracauna is Easter Egger in Falkland Island and Argentine. They are believed that bring blue eggs from Araucana gens. The egg shield color is similar with Indian runner egg shield color.

This chicken is medium size. The cock weighs only 6.5 pounds; while, the hen weighs 5.5 pounds. The ameraucana is also available in Bantam type. The Bantam weighs 26 to 30 once. This bird is similar with Mediterrinean class. It is not fat as other American class chicken.

They have many color variation such as Black, Blue, Blue wheaten, Brown red, Buff, Silver, Wheten, and White.  The special characteristics of this chicken is feather bellow the beak. Both cock and hen has "beard". It has red blood pea comb. The head is oval in shape like egg. The head is small relative to its body.

Photo by : Linda N