Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

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Meant ‘little lady’

Jeez that auto correct is driving me bonkers!

 

[rural mouse]

So true. No blue eggs were hatched. What could she be? I still don't know how this could have happened.

What if I'm wrong and she hatched from a white egg?

You'll find out when she starts laying, then.

 

[Ponypoor]

Well, I am now 95% sure who the daddy is to Georgie's 'chicks (7 of the 8 she hatched)

Look at this barred girl:
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See how she has just a smidge of a head tuft?

I suspected this guy as the Daddy
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due to the large amounts of white barring on the boys ( Usually because of 2 barring genes - which means daddy was probably barred)

But, the small tuft on the girl that I saw today (see Daddy's below?) sealed the suspicion.
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He is a 'Lakeshore Egger' I beleive a mix of cuckoo Marans and assorted other breeds to make a blue to light green to medium green egg layer.

The batch he came from, he was barred and there was a black & white barred girl, the rest were not barred at all. All are a slighter build than marans, though.

And, two little boys - one on the move.

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Gosh he is gorgeous.

And the babies are so cute! This barring is what clued me into Shorley being a boy. Glad I listened to you guys about that!

 

[featherhead007]

Aero is priceless. I had a yogurt I was enjoying. She jumped up on me and rubbed her beak against my cheek. She got some yogurt and thanked me for it.

 

[Sylvester017]

RE-POST: Rug/carpet bath

 

[rural mouse]

I posted the other breeds the breeder had. I could do that again if needed.

Yes, please.

 

[notabitail]

The video glitched but its fixed now! Ahhhhhhh! COMPUTERS!!!!!

That's how I feel. Tried upgrading a database on something, messed it up, had to restore from image (thankfully taken today), and now I have a idea as to what to do, but it took three hours to figure that out!

 

[Ponypoor]

Moulting is interesting in chickens. Feathersite.com has a pic of a normal cuckoo Dominique that by her 6th year moulted white ~ but in a way thats not strange. At the turn of the 1900's Doms came both in all-white & in cuckoo patterns as Mark Fields wrote.

Feathersite:

"Emily," my six-year-old Dominique is starting to go white. Until this year, she had perfect Dominique markings. ​

https://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Doms/BRKDoms.html

"The American Dominique: a Treatise for the Fancier" by Mark Fields includes info on other breeds besides the Dom like Hamburghs, BRs, Dorkings, Jersey Giants, Asiatics, Mediterraneans, etc etc. Such a wealth of history written on American progression of chicken fanciers.

What a lovely chook!

 

[Ponypoor]

Our chicks would dust bathe on rugs and carpets!

Hahaha too cute

 

[Ponypoor]

You'll find out when she starts laying, then.

But we are not to hurry her though!

(The anticipation will be hard to bare though…)