Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RoyalChick]

It's quite common with the Shetlands. That's five of my six here, and four of them have it although it doesn't show up well on the wheaten in this photo. (The one not pictured is solid black.)
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My beautiful Eli, the notorious stunt pilot, had that.

Fly high Eli, I still miss you. And I am glad you didn’t teach the little ones to lay their eggs in the rafters.

 

[Ponypoor]

If you mean the lines it's just called shafting. I can't say that without sniggering. It's generally considered a fault if you're breeding birds to show but I really like how it looks.

When the sun catches her back and lights up the gold lines against the green-black feathers, I always think she looks like she's wearing a really smart pinstripe suit.

I really like it, wonder why it’s a fault?

She has them so regularly spaced they are very striking.

 

[Ponypoor]

My beautiful Eli, the notorious stunt pilot, had that.
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Fly high Eli, I still miss you. And I am glad you didn’t teach the little ones to lay their eggs in the rafters.

Yes glad she didn’t do that!

I love her colouring also, beautiful.

 

[kattabelly]

I really like it, wonder why it’s a fault?

She has them so regularly spaced they are very striking.

It would just be wrong if the standard for that breed and colour of bird calls for feathers without it. There might be some breeds where shafting is either not a huge issue or actually necessary to meet the standard - I can't think of any, but then I'm not an exhibition bird person.