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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Tips on how to select egg-laying chicken breed

To produce more eggs in your backyard, you have to select the right chicken. There are so many chicken breeds that you can choose. You can consider some factors before buying the hen. Here are the things that you should consider:

1. Dual purpose or layer
Some dual purpose can lay many eggs, such as, Plymouth Rock, New Hampshire Red, and Rhode Island Red The rooster has good meat and you can sell the meat. After retired from laying, you can sell the old hen.

2. The egg shield
Most chicken lay brown shielded eggs. If you want other color shield, you should raise certain chicken breed. To produce white eggs, you can raise chicken breed, such as, Catalana, Leghorn, and more. If you want produce blue eggs or Easter eggs, you can raise Araucana and Ameraucana. Some hen lay green egg too.
Egg shield color does not represent the nutrition content.

3. Winter layer
In winter, most chicken does not lay. They rest during the winter. However, some breed can lay in winter, such as, Plymouth Rock, New Hampshire red, and Rhode Island Red. The chicken breed give you benefit even in winter.

4. The potential egg
Some chicken breed can lay up to 300 eggs such as, white leghorn. The dual purpose also lay over 250 eggs in a year.

5. The weigh eggs
Some chicken breeds lay big eggs but some other lay small eggs.

6. The conversion rate
The conversion rate is the ability of the hen to convert the chicken feed to the eggs. The efficient chicken which can produce more eggs with fewer chicken feed is very good.

Aracauna : Chicken breed form Chile, South American

Aracauna is native South American Chicken or Chile. As guest its name, Aracauna Indian tribe is the first man who breed this chicken breed. The breed is descendant of two breed chicken i.e: Quetrro and Collonca. The origin of this bird is debatable. Did Colombus bring the chicken? or, The chicken is Polynesian native chicken.

This chicken is medium size. It is not fat like American breed chicken. This chicken is slim. It has pea comb, double wattled, and read earlobes. The unique characterized of the bird is ear-tuft and rump-less ( no feather tail). Aracauna is the blue egg shield layer or egg easter like indian runner egg. You should know that blue shield eggs is not more nutrious than brown eggs or white eggs. They have many color variation like black, white, cucko, red, silver, lavender, and else.

British has developed this bird too. American has been success to make a new breed from this chicken. It is called Ameraucana or American and Auracana.

Photo by: jackberry