2024 Recap – and News for 2025 – Awesome Araucana

2024 was a year of success and flock advances. I did only one large hatch with several hundred eggs from all flocks that emerged in early March 2024. Usually for the last 10 years or so I hatched eggs from all the hens for the first hatch and just blue eggs for all the rest of the year’s hatches. That …

AWESOME ARAUCANA CHICKEN HATCHERY UPDATES FOR 2021

Hatchery Update for 2021 First, I want to say the year 2020 was an incredible year here for the Araucana Chickens and their future with increased interest and requests for these birds reaching new levels. My new book published in 2020 called “Araucana Experience” has been very well received. Please help these birds by learning why they are so awesome …

Awesome Araucana Chicken Hatchery Updates for the year 2020

Getting ready for the 2020 Hatching season while putting the finishing touches on a book about the essentials of Araucana chicken flock management made 2019 a very busy year. Back in late July I was in Dallas, Texas with my laptop computer and plans for a great book. I thought that it would be a few days of intense work …

Awesome Araucana 2018 Recap Added Notation

My birds with the tailed trait are called Ketros. My modern Ketros are necessary to keep them balanced so they do not get “Short Back Syndrome” from missing anatomy of tail-less inbreeding. They are pure and maintained here the way they are still maintained in South America with Ketros and Kollonkas producing Araucana types for 45 years here. Your tailed …

2018 Update

This 2018 hatching season has been a great one with increased fertility and hatch rates. Many have reported 30% plus hatches with our shipped hatching eggs this year and that is what we get here. That is much improved as their fertility and reproduction is known to be reduced from inherent factors. Having many small flocks seems to be a …

2017 Hatching Season Recap

ANOTHER AWESOME YEAR AROUND HERE WITH THE EMERGENCE OF THE NEXT GENERATION! The chicks hatched out in February at our Awesome Araucana Chicken Hatchery are looking like they should with a few new feather color occurrences that puzzled me for a while. It wasn’t until these birds matured to their adult feather colorations that the differences were noticed. Since I …

Awesome Araucana 2016 Recap

“Awesome Araucana Chicken Hatchery” is closed for the season preparing for Spring 2017. Thank you all for your interest and participation keeping this fine old strain of Araucana type Chickens going on into the future. Please know, I will be available for Hatchery business communications from March through July beginning March first, 2017. Our 2016 season was active. Feedback on …

Awesome Araucana Chicken Hatchery FOR SALE OR TRADE

I am offering my NPIP Certified Araucana Chicken Hatchery for Sale or Trade and will consider many options. My 45 year effort of maintaining and improving Mapuche Race Chickens obtained in 1973 has been successful. It began after 40 years of raising them in isolation without vaccinations or antibiotics and keeping them pure. I started seeking a hatchery that would …