Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[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?

Found some interesting stuff (accuracy? ‍). Rhode Island Reds can come in a Rose comb strain (very rare). Cinnamon queens are a cross between a New Hampshire Roo and a Silver Laced Wyandotte Hen (possibly explains the comb). Barnevelders have the black head (dark brown layer: crossed over blue egg makes an olive egger). Possibilities. The link has the sex-link crosses listed toward the bottom.

https://farmhouseguide.com/chicken-breeds/


Edit: other rose comb reddish breeds include the Derbyshire Red Cap, Red Leghorns (shocking, I know), and a bantams breed called...Rosecomb.

 

[BY Bob]

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
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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…

I'm so glad she is walking better. That is great news. Nice photos too!

 

[rural mouse]

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.

The link I just shared differs on the breeding of the Queens. If it's accurate, the rose comb is explained. Kinda puzzled as there's is some research that says rose combs have a decreased fertility.

 

[BY Bob]

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.
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She is adorable.

 

[BY Bob]

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.

She is not an EE. Nothing is right. No muffs, no beard, orange legs, I have no idea what breed that chicken is.

 

[rural mouse]

I am so sorry. I could not take that.

I'm delighted: I had just heard that beginning of the month, they measured the snow in the Sierra Nevadas. Last year at the same time: 5 feet. This year: 5 inches. Last year: nasty on fires. Implication: this year is worse. (Provided the info on the snow load is true). At this point, ANY moisture is a WONDERFUL THING!!!

 

[BY Bob]

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

Hattie will take care of them for you but she doesn't come cheap. Drop me a line and I can give you her hourly rate.

 

[rural mouse]

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

Get a beehive....

 

[BY Bob]

Do not call me handy when it comes to wood! Progress on the greenhouse frame mover #1 (the simplest/easiest idea trying first). Probably going to need four angle bracing thingies as the 2x2's are fairly squirmy. Made two so far, screwed them in wrong, the screw heads were sticking out and I want to not cut my hand on them by accident, so I took the screws out and am going to either switch it around and do it differently or drill a sort of counter-sink hole for them.
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Brackets on both sides helps the wiggliness in one plane.

Also, a minor gripe. I thought 2x2's would be 1 1/2 inches each side. So did the Home Depot guy helping me. Well they are 1 3/8! So the little brackets stick out a bit. Not a big deal for my project of course. But I guess after 11 boards the mill gets a "free" one?

Tax - Butters and Popcorn under the blueberries today, nobody standing very still.View attachment 3060551
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Focused at last... Butters glinting in the sunset light
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Wonderful buckeyes! I love them. So photogenic.

You are looking pretty handy to me. This is serious invention work. Expect to have to back track at some point. Don't get down on yourself when it happens. Expect it and keep going.

 

[BY Bob]

Two fer Tuesday REDs:
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Wonderful!