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  1. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    The problem with those speculations is the mottled look. It is recessive. A bird MUST have 2 copies for it to show (unless it bleeds through in later life). In order for them to be a hybrid of ONLY 2 breeds, BOTH parents must be mottled. Silkied feathers are also recessive, so again BOTH parents...
  2. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    @RoyalChick Meyers flat out states that the CC is a hybrid of 2 breeds. The mention NOT having silkied feathers (maybe to throw off the right path?). They have mottled cochin bantams. Put a roo in with the female houdans and you get the feathered feet, partial crest, beard, 5 toes and mottled...
  3. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    According to Meyers, they have yellow skin.....of the mottled birds they have, Ancona and Exchequer Leghorn both have yellow skin. The egg color is supposed to be light cream, which fits the houdan, with the Ancona and EL producing white eggs. I don't think we'll get closer than that on the mix...
  4. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I'm thinking Mottled Houdan for keeping the 5 toes, the beard, and the mottling, but they appear to be partial crested, there has to be something else there. Houdans have white skin, and the CC doesn't have the silkie black skin, so...I'm betting only 1/4 silkie at most. What color skin and type...
  5. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Golden Cuckoo....wow! Every chipmunk striped chick is dubbed "chippy" as a temporary name. Sometimes it sticks, sometimes it doesn't. As I've never seen the GCM or the CC grow, I'm really curious about them. Speckled sussex (in my experience) are really sweet (and broody prone, I'm surprised...
  6. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    I've paid attention to the black and white birds. The cookies and cream is the only one I'm aware of with the crest, 5 toes, and FEATHERED feet.
  7. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Leg color says sussex or orpington (yes, pink is the white skin). You have a spotted lady. Which one.....you'll have to tell us or we have to wait to see adult body shape. The clear poop....did they give them that Gro-Gel stuff? I've never had chicks with it before so I dunno what it comes out...
  8. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Meyers has a "what's hatching" spot for this week's chicks. Going through and clicking on definite maybes...no baby pics or not conclusive pics ...switch to Cackle's for the ones they have as their pics amount to a library of pics (useful especially with a variety of feather patterns). That head...
  9. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Golden Cuckoo marans for the dark red with head spot (or fayoumi, but I think the marans) and a Buckeye for the light red? The chipmunk.....too may options: brown leghorn, partridge rock/cochin, speckled sussex, various Eggers without a specific color pattern to start with....
  10. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    The white spot on the dark red one next to her.....hmmmmm don't tell me. Let me go browse the Meyer's site, see if I can figure this out. Light red looks like maybe has cheeks.....other is a chipmunk? What color legs?
  11. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Ooooh! Sounds like the Meyers Hachery Cookies and Cream! Thing 2 with feathered feet and able to see without a trim! https://meyerhatchery.com/products/lisa-steeles-cookies-and-cream-day-old-chicks
  12. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    A crest! Is that a little spot on the head in the first pic? 4 or 5?
  13. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    Hens can hang on to sperm (or whatever it's called in birds) for 3 weeks (some people say 5). You would need to separate for a month to collect eggs during the last week....I think.... Looking at this for next spring, there's time to 1. Do some research and possible planning and 2. Do some...
  14. rural mouse

    Nature-Themed Hatch-Along

    Jasper and Hurry-cane good job!
  15. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    As I recall, @RebeccaBoyd had a silkie roo, Branch, who was rather good at getting to the Marans hens.
  16. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    MugsPear on a bug hunt....just had a hatch day, now 5, new coop door, bananas, and grasshoppers (favorite since the beginning when we caught grasshoppers for the babies running around the garage). snuggle puddle (left is the blue crest, middle tailless blue cockerel, an australorp looking. An...
  17. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    :hugs :hugs :hugs :hugs :hugs :hugs :hugs :hugs :hugstime outside while the weather in nice will help with the recovery process. Make sure you have something sturdy to hang on to when sitting down or getting up or going up and down stairs and USE IT!!! The last thing you want is to slip on...
  18. rural mouse

    Brown Leghorn Chicks

    If they were cockerels, the feathers you're worried about would be black like this (even though he's not a brown leghorn)
  19. rural mouse

    Brown Leghorn Chicks

    Yes, they're pullets
  20. rural mouse

    Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

    In dry ground, while the wood will eventually rot, as long as it stays dry, should hold for a few years. However, rainy seasons, hoses, leaky buckets....will accelerate that process. A hardware cloth apron spread around it will prevent digging into the coop. How to anchor it....I'm not sure on.
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