


99chooks wrote:I have had a closed group for a few years now and this is the first dickey one so she must be a throw back or a hatching problem. I will grab her at some stage to see if she has a parsons nose but I guess she must do if she has one tail feather. As you can appreciate free ranging Arau's aren't that easy to catchsharron wrote:I think we all have dodgy araucanas,.
Isn't that just flaming typical!judith01 wrote:6but it is looking more like a pullet.
poultrytown wrote:Can somebody help me to understand the way rumpless gene work in araucana? I'm talking about these genes...
Dominant Rumplessness Rp No coccyx (tail vertebra), reduces hatchability
rp+ Wild-type gene. Recessive. Lack of dominant rumplessness. Fowls usually have tails
Recessive Rumplessness rp-2 A skeletal mutation commonly called 'roachback'
Thanks in advance
Thomas
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