Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

And I thought I was tough dealing with -6C! And when I lived in London, the Brits thought -2C was cold!

Humidity makes a HUUUUGE difference too. DH spent the coldest winter he's ever felt in Florida after one of the coldest winters in modern times up here. The damp penetrates and sinks into your bones. The dry REALLY needs the wind to do the same thing.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Last night I was reading more information on Cinnamon Queens in order to prepare myself for their future needs. For instance I learned they have a higher calcium need than my current flock members. While the layer feed I use is fine with them with no additional calcium supplements, I am going to start supplementing Oyster Shell when the new chicks come close to laying. Then I started looking at pictures of chicks and I have spotted a potential problem. Every picture I found while they can have chipmunk markings, they are red. My 3, normal brown chipmunk chicks. Do I even have Cinnamon Queen chicks? We all know Rural King and Tractor Supply can mislabel chick bins. I know when we picked them out the employee was upset because they had been placed in a bin with Americauna pullets who were also chipmunk marked. I really do not think these are americauna's though as the lady pointed out they were distinguishable because they were bearded and leg color was different. Right now I am going to keep my suspicions to myself and not tell mom, but I am going to watch them very closely. Lets be honest, if there was a mess up and they are a different breed I personally will not be upset. As long as they are not boys, then I will be upset.
This is what according to everything I've read and saw Cinnamon Queen chicks should look like.

Here are mine

So what do you all think, am I crazy on thinking there was a mix up?

 

[rural mouse]

Monday mug

From Saturday evening when they came up and surrounded me

Nellie and Storm

Jessica, no longer broody, thankfully. Hopeful that she will go again when the weather is better.

Thing, with a Friday bonus (expect to see this one again) from Blanche? (She and PITA are difficult to tell from this end, but Blanche spends more time with Thing)

Of course him!

And another (from Sunday), not quite mugshot, but the wind hit just right...

 

[RoyalChick]

Last night I was reading more information on Cinnamon Queens in order to prepare myself for their future needs. For instance I learned they have a higher calcium need than my current flock members. While the layer feed I use is fine with them with no additional calcium supplements, I am going to start supplementing Oyster Shell when the new chicks come close to laying. Then I started looking at pictures of chicks and I have spotted a potential problem. Every picture I found while they can have chipmunk markings, they are red. My 3, normal brown chipmunk chicks. Do I even have Cinnamon Queen chicks? We all know Rural King and Tractor Supply can mislabel chick bins. I know when we picked them out the employee was upset because they had been placed in a bin with Americauna pullets who were also chipmunk marked. I really do not think these are americauna's though as the lady pointed out they were distinguishable because they were bearded and leg color was different. Right now I am going to keep my suspicions to myself and not tell mom, but I am going to watch them very closely. Lets be honest, if there was a mess up and they are a different breed I personally will not be upset. As long as they are not boys, then I will be upset.
This is what according to everything I've read and saw Cinnamon Queen chicks should look like.
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Here are mine
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So what do you all think, am I crazy on thinking there was a mix up?

You know me, they are all chickens to me (unless they are black of course!).
I did find this image from a customer review of Cinnamon Queen chicks from TSC on the TSC website - they look similar to yours I think.

 

[LaFemmeKatia]

I tried to be prepared for Mugs Monday. Went out with my camera (phone) yesterday.
I only got one cooperative candidate, Buffy.

To wit…

I even bribed them with treats. As you can see that was counter-productive.

 

[rural mouse]

Last night I was reading more information on Cinnamon Queens in order to prepare myself for their future needs. For instance I learned they have a higher calcium need than my current flock members. While the layer feed I use is fine with them with no additional calcium supplements, I am going to start supplementing Oyster Shell when the new chicks come close to laying. Then I started looking at pictures of chicks and I have spotted a potential problem. Every picture I found while they can have chipmunk markings, they are red. My 3, normal brown chipmunk chicks. Do I even have Cinnamon Queen chicks? We all know Rural King and Tractor Supply can mislabel chick bins. I know when we picked them out the employee was upset because they had been placed in a bin with Americauna pullets who were also chipmunk marked. I really do not think these are americauna's though as the lady pointed out they were distinguishable because they were bearded and leg color was different. Right now I am going to keep my suspicions to myself and not tell mom, but I am going to watch them very closely. Lets be honest, if there was a mess up and they are a different breed I personally will not be upset. As long as they are not boys, then I will be upset.
This is what according to everything I've read and saw Cinnamon Queen chicks should look like.
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Here are mine
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So what do you all think, am I crazy on thinking there was a mix up?

I don't think you're wrong. There's enough brown there to be questionable. The last batch of chicks I had (Cheetah's lot) was an assortment, 5 had chipmunk stripes . The previous batch had 3 types, 2 black and a chipmunk. Of the 6 chipmunk marked breeds, the only RED one was the Rhode island (new Hampshire reds are similarly marked). The other breeds, 1 turned out to be "solid" color, the partridge rock. The remaining 4 breeds all were "hen" color vs "rooster" color: black breasted roos, red (salmon) breasted hens. Breeds turned out to be: brown leghorn, silver Dorking, silver Phoenix, and whiting True Blue (new from mcmurray, with no real visual uniformity). In playing what breed is this?, welsummer and legbar came up also as chipmunk marked. The various designer hybrids I skipped as the assorted names are so varied, but any derived from breeds chipmunk marked could be also.

 

[RoyalChick]

Diana’s mugshot for Monday. She wanted to be sure I wasn’t hiding any treats in my pockets.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

You know me, they are all chickens to me (unless they are black of course!).
I did find this image from a customer review of Cinnamon Queen chicks from TSC on the TSC website - they look similar to yours I think.

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Thank you for finding that image. It's the first one I've seen with them looking similar to what I have. This is all new to me. First time I've purchased chicks from a farm store, and with a breed that I never really looked up information on before hand.

 

[rural mouse]

I tried to be prepared for Mugs Monday. Went out with my camera (phone) yesterday.
I only got one cooperative candidate, Buffy.
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To wit…
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I even bribed them with treats. As you can see that was counter-productive.

It doesn't look like they gave you any Friday shots either! I had similar pics from breakfast yesterday (took awhile but I have a few saved)

 

[rural mouse]

I don't think you're wrong. There's enough brown there to be questionable. The last batch of chicks I had (Cheetah's lot) was an assortment, 5 had chipmunk stripes . The previous batch had 3 types, 2 black and a chipmunk. Of the 6 chipmunk marked breeds, the only RED one was the Rhode island (new Hampshire reds are similarly marked). The other breeds, 1 turned out to be "solid" color, the partridge rock. The remaining 4 breeds all were "hen" color vs "rooster" color: black breasted roos, red (salmon) breasted hens. Breeds turned out to be: brown leghorn, silver Dorking, silver Phoenix, and whiting True Blue (new from mcmurray, with no real visual uniformity). In playing what breed is this?, welsummer and legbar came up also as chipmunk marked. The various designer hybrids I skipped as the assorted names are so varied, but any derived from breeds chipmunk marked could be also.

Chipmunk is more common than the "classic" fluffy yellow chick (only on white birds). While it's possible they're exactly what they're supposed to be, it's equally possible they're not. Feather development isn't always helpful either. Only valuable help I have: watch the breast feathers. If they come in dark (compared to the back/shoulders), you likely have a cockerel.