Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

Egg number 20 today! First time seeing her lay!

It really did go plop!
Love her name by the way.

 

[Sylvester017]

I can’t help here anymore. He doesn’t want to accompany me to my home. I tried. I’m flying home daylight.

We offer/share what we're led to do in spirit but not responsible for the choice another makes to receive or reject the offer. Safe flight

 

[TOMTE]

@TOMTE
Hoovers supplies them. They sell "french marans assortments" which are clean legged, as well as "midnight majesty marans" like my Shep was. They can have feathered or clean legs.
Shep had black feathered legs
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You'll likely know when she lays an egg. Marans are a darker, cooler brown shade with a purpley bloom. Sheps had speckles too.

Thank you!! EEP I'm excited for her to start laying! So far nobody else seems anywhere close to being ready. Though they all love to crowd around Sybil to watch while she lays. Maybe they're taking notes

Ohh, your Shep was a beauty. And such pretty eggs

 

[TOMTE]

It really did go plop!
Love her name by the way.

I had to hold back a LOL when it dropped she looked so relieved

 

[SimpleJenn]

If hubby approves, I will get another midnight marans. Shep was his baby so I don't know if he'd be ready for another of the same breed. That's why I never got a barred rock with my first hens, I didn't want to compare her to Peeps.

 

[Sylvester017]

Kelly, I heard that if you go black, you never go back. Just saying

So true ~ never thought I would love black till we got our first one ~ Mini 2017

 

[TOMTE]

If hubby approves, I will get another midnight marans. Shep was his baby so I don't know if he'd be ready for another of the same breed. That's why I never got a barred rock with my first hens, I didn't want to compare her to Peeps.

Marans are so gorgeous... I wouldn't mind having a marans roo.

 

[Sylvester017]

I keep thinking... Aliss looks more like an English BCM (or clean-legged French) than a BSL. But as far as I know, Family Farm and Home doesn't supply English BCM. I think they get their chicks from Cackle..? @SimpleJenn do you know?

Looking at pictures of BCM and BSL, Esme looks more like the latter. But Aliss is much darker overall, fluffier, and the brown/red/copper color is only on her neck/chest and head. Her face and earlobes also have more black (still yellow, but with dark "smudges" that are spreading as she gets older), black spots on the tips of her comb, and her legs are mostly black. Of course she could just be a much darker BSL than what I've seen. Maybe different parents were used...? Oh! And Aliss has green eyes, not brown like the rest of my girls!

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(The camera on my phone picks up more of the yellow than the black— her legs are much darker than they look here)

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(Again, the camera doesn't really pick up on the dark smudges on her face and earlobes. You can kind of see...)

I've seen pics of really dark BSL like Aliss, but they all have yellow legs and yellow/red faces.

It doesn't really matter, I'm just curious!

Another thing about Aliss that probably has nothing to do with breed but I can't not share because it's funny: she doesn't really cluck... She just roars. Must be her new "beer beeeer beer!"

I'll try to get a video soon. I adore her, the weirdo

Your chickens have quickly become pets. So fun!

Eye colors in chickens? Our 3 Dominique juveniles had pretty blue eyes that turned reddish-bay when they were adults.

2 months old blue eyes

4 months old ~ eyes beginning to change color

 

[Ponypoor]

Egg number 20 today! First time seeing her lay!

I see what you mean she does sound like a kettle boiling doesn’t she

 

[Ponypoor]

I filling up the left wing fuel tank and preparing for my flight.

Safe journeys