Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Nope, no foxtail here.

Lots of Cat-tail though. View attachment 3059307

Oh well hello Moggy

Tell your human good one

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Call me crazy, but I don’t think she’s an EE. No muffs and Sunshine had green legs. I could be wrong, of course!

Is that a pea comb? No chance of her being a Buckeye, right? I think her feathers are too light for that, but hard to tell for sure.

At this point in time she is a red chick as far as breed goes. Cinnamon Queens are supposed to have straight combs, she has a pea comb. She came out of a bin that had Cinnamon Queens and Americuana's in it. The only other breeds listed on their bins that could have turned into a red hen were Rhode Island Reds. That pea comb just throws me for a loop, are there Rhode Island Reds with pea combs?

 

[Ponypoor]

This may be cheating twofer Tuesday a bit… With the crazy weather here I’m keeping Trouble in the coop today, she’s in a Broody box for recovering her leg injury at night and separated from the jumpie cockerels during the day in a meat tractor. But she still needed fully watered, exercised, and fed today, so in a brief break between the squalls I fed and watered her outside the coop with the main flock. It was about an hour of standing guard over her to keep the cockerels away, but she’s walking better than she was. I quickly turned my back on her to feed the main bunch and she made a successful break for the chicken trailer and even got up the step. I managed to get a couple pictures while fending off cockerels, but the mud and poop everywhere around the Trailer made it hard to get anything vaguely presentable View attachment 3060421
And here she is with Meatball
View attachment 3060425
Having one stationary chicken at a waterer kind of makes getting pics of her paired with another friend easy! Both these girls usually join Trouble in the meat Tractor because as you can see they are a little too popular with the clumsy boys. The meat birds don’t have the same evasive capabilities as the rest of the flock, and that makes them an easy mating target…

They sure are pretty tho

 

[Ponypoor]

I am going to do a formal introduction to Granny. This is the only 1 of the 3 chipmunk chicks that I am fairly sure is a pullet. I keep going back and forth on the other 2. If she is a suspected EE she has one thing going for her to pass off as a Cinnamon Queen, she's going to be red. Then again, I also now question the EE as she has yellow legs. I truly do not know what breed Rural King sold me as Cinnamon Queens.
View attachment 3060442View attachment 3060443View attachment 3060445View attachment 3060447

Very cute tho, love the colouring it's lovely

 

[rural mouse]

Rosie's 4-H project is due tomorrow. This year she is doing photography and like her mother put off taking her pictures to the last minute. She asked me Sunday evening for the camera. She came back in a little over a hour later and I was shocked when I downloaded them. Here are just a few she is going to use. She is titling her project Springtime in the Mountains.
View attachment 3060340View attachment 3060341View attachment 3060342View attachment 3060343View attachment 3060345View attachment 3060346View attachment 3060347View attachment 3060348View attachment 3060349View attachment 3060351View attachment 3060352

She's got a good eye!

 

[rural mouse]

Two for Tuesday.
First picture is Granny and one of her siblings that I keep going bath and forth on if its a boy or girl. There are times when I think boy, and other times I think girl.
View attachment 3060460
Next we have Blueberry and Creamy hard at work.
View attachment 3060461

Granny and her sibling both have rose combs. That makes sexing them harder. Those combs can pink early and mean nothing. Watch for wattles. Those will be the easiest indicator. Cheetah had his starting at 6 weeks. Meanwhile Jessica, her sister (got in the dog attack), Nika (also the dog, Dominique with rose comb) and Twirp (pea comb) all had nothing for wattles at 12 weeks.

 

[rural mouse]

I need to borrow him. My Princesses are useless on dandelions - they don't even dig them up!

Harvest 1/3rd of the flowers and make dandelion wine.

 

[rural mouse]

At this point in time she is a red chick as far as breed goes. Cinnamon Queens are supposed to have straight combs, she has a pea comb. She came out of a bin that had Cinnamon Queens and Americuana's in it. The only other breeds listed on their bins that could have turned into a red hen were Rhode Island Reds. That pea comb just throws me for a loop, are there Rhode Island Reds with pea combs?

Not usually. Now my curiosity bug bit again. The black head is also interesting. excuse me while I go do some breed digging.

 

[rural mouse]

Not usually. Now my curiosity bug bit again. The black head is also interesting. excuse me while I go do some breed digging.

Apparently Rhode islands have a rose comb strain.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Granny and her sibling both have rose combs. That makes sexing them harder. Those combs can pink early and mean nothing. Watch for wattles. Those will be the easiest indicator. Cheetah had his starting at 6 weeks. Meanwhile Jessica, her sister (got in the dog attack), Nika (also the dog, Dominique with rose comb) and Twirp (pea comb) all had nothing for wattles at 12 weeks.

This is extremely helpful. I get rose and pea combs mixed up since the majority of my chickens are single combed. I do not know what hatchery my Rural King gets their chicks from. Cinnamon Queens are supposed to be a cross between Rhode Island Reds and Rhode Island Whites. Both of those I just looked up can come in Rose Combs. So it is now possible that the chipmunks could be Rhode Island Reds or Cinnamon Queens. I swear in the future I'm hatching my own eggs or getting eggs from breeders.