Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I know. I was nervous it wouldn't work out. I still am honestly! You guys all tried to persuade me to get more a year ago and I resisted - so really I was just slow to be convinced!

They are so cute (you gotta go buy more)

 

[rural mouse]

It is just for fun because you know me and breeds! @rural mouse has listed more breeds than I have ever heard of!

I had 14 chicks to identify last year. 4 were chipmunk, but none matched the partridge rocks from the year before and none of the 4 matched each other.

 

[rural mouse]

Actually it was even more cute. When I brought them into the house and opened up the little basket I had them in there were only two. Of course I went into a panic.
Turned out the little black one had crawled inside the sock and was sound asleep in there nice and toasty!

Clever, that one will cause you trouble.

 

[RoyalChick]

black

So I have you down for various flavors of Orpington or an Olive Egger. Did I get that right?

 

[rural mouse]

11 is also a good number - then you can average about 7 eggs a day... Or 70 in 10 days.... Yee gads who knew they laid so many eggs

And of course then there is the old saying 'cheaper by the dozen'!!

Isn't that "cheeper" by the dozen?

 

[bgmathteach]

Ten would be a nice round number!

That will allow her to add another 3 next year.....gotta pace yourself

 

[bgmathteach]

So I have you down for various flavors of Orpington or an Olive Egger. Did I get that right?

Black one: black or black split orpington
I have to think on the blue/grey one, but might as well go with lavender orpington, just because I don't have a better guess, lol
I'll wait to guess on the chipmunk one until more details/better photos, but that one will be, in all honesty, impossible to 'know' due to so many breeds having that colour chick.


where did you get these adorable chicks?

 

[rural mouse]

No, because those aren't 'BLUE, they are blue LACED. i.e. a blue has BB, genes; blue laced red Wyandotte has other color genes just by the nature of them.

Ran across an interesting tidbit while puzzling over lil' blue. According to that bit, any black can be turned blue through the BBS breeding principle. Somehow I can't quite see a buff brahma with a blue collar.... and I don't think the Colombian marker and the BBS color can cross. However, I'm not a geneticist and I suspect trying to figure that out would require some serious gene mapping. Another odd cross I encountered is the Rhode Island Blue (aka production blue): Rhode Red crossed with black Australorp. Unless the RIR carries the splash hidden under the red, how is that even genetically possible?

 

[bgmathteach]

I thought Peggy wore skates not slippers.

Depends on the season. Summer there now, lol

 

[RoyalChick]

Black one: black or black split orpington
I have to think on the blue/grey one, but might as well go with lavender orpington, just because I don't have a better guess, lol
I'll wait to guess on the chipmunk one until more details/better photos, but that one will be, in all honesty, impossible to 'know' due to so many breeds having that colour chick.


where did you get these adorable chicks?

All will be revealed in time.