Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

This is assuming she came from a white egg and not a brown egg like I thought, correct?

That is the speculation. Both ladies had some of both eggs under them, right?

 

[ChicoryBlue]

The Other Possibilities

So I got the Polish eggs from Omega Hill Farms. They offer the following breeds:

Breed​	Egg​	Chick​
Bielefelder​	Brown	Chipmunk
Blue Isbar	Mint Green	Dark Grey
Cream Legbar	Blue	Brown
French Black Copper Maran	Dark Brown	Black & Yellow
Tolbunt Polish	White	Chipmunk

I can't figure out how Miss Terry Aster came from any combination of these but perhaps as you know genetics better than me @rural mouse you can put something together.

Remember Aster was all yellow as a chick.

I think she is close to a Splash Isbar, because of her dark feather bits. If so she’ll probably get more splash with each molt maybe. I also read Splash Isbars are yellow chicks. Don’t know if what I read is correct or of any authority though.

 

[featherhead007]

CB, I’m glad you still like my jokes. I try to keep fresh material the best I can.

 

[rural mouse]

But the chick color would rule that out, correct? The Isbars are dark colored chicks. Or is the chick color also subject to change..............

The isbars are blue, which still fall into the blue, black, splash rules. Both blue and black will hatch out dark with yellow belly/butt fluff. Splash breeders keep showing pics of light grey chicks (or light grey where the dark would be for the other 2). Blanche, PITA, and Quartz all were fluffy yellow fuzzies as chicks. Not a trace of any other color. All 3 feathered out white, then got the dark spots just like Aster. The Feathersite link I posted had a pic down at the bottom of a fluffy yellow chick with a caption about it being a splash bird. I'd speculate that most of the breeder pics showing light grey and yellow chicks actually feather out in a shade of blue instead. The pics are usually posted by largish breeders and I'm thinking they don’t/can't keep track of how each baby feathers out.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

The isbars are blue, which still fall into the blue, black, splash rules. Both blue and black will hatch out dark with yellow belly/butt fluff. Splash breeders keep showing pics of light grey chicks (or light grey where the dark would be for the other 2). Blanche, PITA, and Quartz all were fluffy yellow fuzzies as chicks. Not a trace of any other color. All 3 feathered out white, then got the dark spots just like Aster. The Feathersite link I posted had a pic down at the bottom of a fluffy yellow chick with a caption about it being a splash bird. I'd speculate that most of the breeder pics showing light grey and yellow chicks actually feather out in a shade of blue instead. The pics are usually posted by largish breeders and I'm thinking they don’t/can't keep track of how each baby feathers out.

Here’s a yellow Isbar chick at the bottom group
https://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Isbar/BRKIsbar.html

 

[featherhead007]

Blue Moon, you saw me standing alone, without a dream in my heart, without a love of my own!”

 

[Ponypoor]

That doesn't make sense...she would have to wake up to get in the bucket

Linear logic…

 

[rural mouse]

Sometimes you just got to know when to admit defeat and call in professionals.

Yellowjackets have been terrible this year. I have never saw them this bad. It is not just us, it is everywhere around. I've saw news reports that Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee are horrible.

We knew there was a nest under the porch. We assumed it was under the ground. We have tried everything, homemade traps that were effective. Mom bought some kind of powder to kill them but no matter how many we killed there was still a insane number of the demons on the porch. We have not used our front door for over a week. This evening we had a exterminator come out. We were fighting a loosing battle. He found the nest and it was not under the ground. They had built a huge paper nest in our insulation and around the floor boards. The nest was removed and destroyed, and some kind of chemical sprayed for them. We were then assured that the few that remained would move on in the next 24 hours now that they do not have a nest to come back to and defend. If they are still a problem in a few more days he will come back out and look for another nest under the floor at no cost.

Wood hauling this weekend, we found a nest in the ground....I actually got bitten (yes bitten, not stung). Having NEVER been either before, we had to keep an eye on that. (No issues other than itching today.) I grew up with my dad keeping bees as a hobby, knowing what to do around them, corralling them in dorm rooms in college and not once bitten or stung. Good to know I'm not allergic, but could have done without learning that.

Tax pic from Hyacinth

 

[notabitail]

Two Cream Legbars:

 

[Sally PB]

My mom used to sing Blue Moon. Thanks for the memory!
How about a Blue Chicken as tax? Stormy.