Araucanas
We currently breed eight colours of Araucana across full and bantam varieties. We have Black, Blue, Cuckoo, Lavender, Lavender Cuckoo and Splash in the full size and Duckwing and Partridge in the bantams.
Black
Our Black Araucanas are our best quality colour out of the Araucanas. They will lay a range of egg colours, from pastel blue to green. They are the same line as our Blue and Splash
Blue
Our blue araucanas are part of Black group/line and carry the same quality and egg colour. They tend to be a dark laced blue but get quite brown/chocolate coloured throughout the season.
Splash
Splash
Our splash are also part of the black line so carry the same characteristics. They are a white base with blue flecks throughout.
Cuckoo
Our Cuckoo araucanas are nearly as good as our black line but lay a either a blue egg or a light olive green egg. They are slightly better layers than the black line and tend to have higher fertility. This season we are breeding a single barred rooster over the hens so you will get 50% double barred and 50% single barred boys (hens can only be single barred).
Lavender
Our lavender line are once again similar in quality to our black line however they tend to all lay a pastel to light blue egg. They lay larger eggs than the black line and more of them as well as laying longer and usually while they are moulting.
Lavender Cuckoo
Lavender Cuckoo
Our lavender cuckoo are a cross between the lavender and cuckoo lines. They are quite spectacular and are one of opur favourite colours of poultry. Their laying and quality is the same as the lavenders. They are one of the first project breed we ever worked on and took 3 years to complete.
Partridge (B/B)
Our Black/Blue Partridge are a new colour for the 2025 season. They are a good line from show breeders and lay large blue-green eggs. We have a black partridge rooster over blue partridge hens. They are probbaly the largest of our Araucanas. The blue base with the gold is definitely quite stunning!
Also known as black/blue breasted red.
Partridge Bantam
Our partridge bantam Araucanas are still a work in progress but have been worked on for many years by one of the best Araucana breeders in NZ. They sometimes pop out with a few things that are not to standard but the majority are pretty good! they do tend to also get double lacing like a partridge Wyandotte which does look quite stunning
Our partridge bantam Araucanas are still a work in progress but have been worked on for many years by one of the best Araucana breeders in NZ. They sometimes pop out with a few things that are not to standard but the majority are pretty good! they do tend to also get double lacing like a partridge Wyandotte which does look quite stunning on them. They lay a green egg and they are about 1/2 the size of a large araucana egg.
Duckwing Araucana Bantam
Duckwing Araucana Bantam
Our Duckwing Araucana Bantams are a couple generations behind the partridge bantams but still are pretty much to standard. They are more flighty though so suit a free range lifestyle! They lay little blue eggs and a lot of them! They are gentically gold duckwing.
Birchen (Blue & Black)
This season we will be having another go at making blue and black birchen Araucanas. We will be using our pure blue birchen rooster over one of our old silver birchen and one of our gold birchen first generation olive eggers. These guys still hold the shape and blue egg gene of the Araucanas but will add some size and extremely good layin
This season we will be having another go at making blue and black birchen Araucanas. We will be using our pure blue birchen rooster over one of our old silver birchen and one of our gold birchen first generation olive eggers. These guys still hold the shape and blue egg gene of the Araucanas but will add some size and extremely good laying ability into the line. It should only take a few generations to get them to standard however there will always be a single comb and brown egg laying gene sitting in the line.