Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

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.

Buttercup was a yellow chick. When she feathered in she was white with a couple of dots, which quickly filled in after her 18week moult.

 

[Ponypoor]

My mom used to sing Blue Moon. Thanks for the memory!
How about a Blue Chicken as tax? Stormy.
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And now I have that song playing in my head

 

[featherhead007]

Linear logic…

On you too!

 

[featherhead007]

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.

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Show off!

 

[rural mouse]

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.

If they develop like my splash girls did, then Splash Isbar is a possibility. If one of the "polish" eggs was a from a blue layer who did what Glynda did and fade the blue out, very possible, especially if she hatched from a "white" egg rather than the brown like we thought. Out of all the various maybes of breed options out there (not just what breeders listed), this one seems the most promising and ticks off the most check boxes.

Buttercup was a yellow chick. When she feathered in she was white with a couple of dots, which quickly filled in after her 18week moult.

Yet another splash chick (from someone who watched from at least day old) go from yellow to white to inky finger printed. I really want to watch a light grey and yellow chick (from a blue bird) feather out just to see if they go splash or some shade of blue.

 

[Ponypoor]

Here you go. Orpington on top.

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Oh I thought Orp eggs where white. Well now I won’t know when my Orps start laying!

 

[RoyalChick]

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.

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The heart is for that stunning pictue.
But OUCH for being bitten/stung.

 

[Ponypoor]

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.

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What a beauty

 

[featherhead007]

Oh I thought Orp eggs where white. Well now I won’t know when my Orps start laying!

 

[Ponypoor]

Hey they will all blend in with the other light brown and peach coloured eggs I get