I have a few projects started and most are in different phases of development.  What is posted here are those projects, when they really take off, I'll start a page for each of them but for now, this is where the projects will begin.

The Araucana is a unique breed and I do keep a pure black flock but I have some project colors for the breed that I feel will catch on once I have them breeding true.  The first project is one that I've been thinking about for nearly as long as I've had Araucana's but it wasn't until I had the opportunity given to me to buy the chocolates I needed that I was able to start my project pen for LF Chocolate Araucana's.   As of 2014, I have the original 2 mother hens (Orpington/Ameraucana crosses) plus a small double tufted/rumpless chocolate hen, 3 chocolate juveniles (a tufted rumpless, clean faced/rumpless and a clean faced/tailed) .  The Recessive/Sex Linked Chocolate will breed true so once the type is set in, chocolate to chocolate will produce 100% Chocolate!

In addition to those Recessive/Sex Linked Chocolates, I also have another "chocolate" gene to work with, "Dun".    In the heterozygous form, the dun color is a cooler toned chocolate that breeds as blue does in poultry.  Breeding a dun to my blacks produces 50% Dun and 50% Black chicks.  The side to this is that breeding Dun to Dun will produce a more dilute chocolate color called Khaki.     

Crossing Dun with Chocolate, using the right "recipe" can produce a color not seen in the US before, called Beige in the UK but may be renamed here if I develop a line of them and I believe they can be made to breed true.

In the end, producing the best possible Black LF Araucana is the basis for all of the Araucana projects I have started.  Breeding toward the Standard of Perfection will bring along any project I am working on and that quality will show as each breeding season passes.

Projects started in 2014 include  Mute Swans, Tomaru's (longcrowers), Grey Jungle Fowl and O Shamo/Brazilian games. 

More Araucana projects include  Barred Araucana's and Silver Spangled Araucana's.  I will have Barred Araucana project chicks available as they hatch.  

The chocolates will not be available until I have them perfected. 

The Spangled Araucana is a longer project and there may be chicks available that don't make the cut here.

There will be no Tomaru's or Grey Jungle Fowl available for some time.  I would consider swapping chicks with other breeders but for now, I am just trying to build a healthy line of these birds.