UPDATE! I posted on the emergency section and it turns out it may be something called "canker".
Here's a picture in his mouth before I removed the yellow gunk. I looked down his throat and that part was clear and he's still acting totally normal.
Sorry! I decided to keep him after all (I am the classic example of indecision), but just moved him tonight to a new pen with various EEs and olive eggers and marans hens in there too. So I guess I won't be selling eggs or chicks any more, but I will still have this fluffy boy to look at and...
If anyone is in need of a fluffy-rooster, I am thinking of selling ours (from alicefelldown).
I love these cuties, but my daughters keep wanting more and more bantam breeds and we just don't have space for everything. Anyway, if anyone wants to buy him, I'll consider all offers for him. I...
Sorry! I can send chicks in April if you want to order some. I have a fluffy splash rooster over 1 split-fluffy blue hen, and 2 Paul Smith splash hens. Chicks would be 1/6 chance of a fluffy, and 5/6 split-fluffy. $45 for 10 chicks, plus $15 shipping/box.
That would make sense if there were split roos in the pen too. Maybe they were younger and she probably thought they weren't breeding yet. Sometimes those boys can be sneaky!
I honestly don't think your fluffy pullet was with a split roo. I doubt she even kept any split roosters for the project since there would've been plenty of fluffy roosters to pair up with fluffy and split hens. I'm sure it was with a fluffy rooster like she said. I really think something...
This confirms my suspicion that something funky is going on with the fluffy genetics here! I have a fluffy boy that mated to a split-fluffy hen, with those being the only 2 birds in the pen at the time, with her laying infertile eggs until she had been with him for 1 week, so I'm POSITIVE the...
Alert - Alert!! My first fluffy post - baby chick photos!
The parents are a splash fluffy rooster and a blue B-line carrier-hen (from alicefelldown with her info copied from PM so I won't mess up the info):
"She is an F1 cross, or a smooth carrier for the hookless gene. Her chicks will be...
sorry I haven't had time to read the whole 90 pages yet, but I LOVE these silkie ameraucanas. I found another one pictured here:
http://forum.backyardpoultry.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7985567&start=0
(don't miss page 2!)
and this one is interesting too about the silkie genetics historically in...