Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I’m relieved that you are feeling better today! That’s great

 

[ValarieF]

I’m relieved that you are feeling better today! That’s great

Yea it is a rare thing but the time I get to spend with my chickens is great lots of photos talking (they are noisy today and have a lot to say) and video. Going back out after I watch my shows.

 

[ValarieF]

Gonna go give some eggs to the silkies for protein.

 

[ValarieF]

Gonna go give some eggs to the silkies for protein.

After Clyde just went to town on the eggs the girls followed suit. I think clyde is the only roo and the others are girls.

 

[fuentemoon]

Everyone keeps telling me to read the Harry Potter books, as they are way better than the movies. I watched the movies one weekend one winter when it was a blizzard. I really need to get the books and read them.

J K Rawling is truly imaginative and fanciful, like Tolkien (oh and dare I say Dr Who - yes I am a Who-nite). Actually all story tellers have one thing in common - they are imaginative and fanciful, true Bards

Especially the first one, the movie left so much out!

Broody side butt

 

[lightm]

Barred is the specific coloring of Plymouth Rock breed. It's a bit of a mouthful, so the Plymouth gets left off. All ____ Rock chickens are Plymouth Rocks. They come in Barred, Black, White, Silver Penciled (look like Primula and Belladonna without the feathered feet and smaller size), Blue, Buff, Partridge (Pear), and probably more colors. All (unless specifically specified for that color variety) should have yellow legs, eye color and body shape (including the "tent" tail) he talked about. The White Rock is specifically crossed with Cornish (@bgmathteach, the Dark Cornish? or are there other Cornish varieties?) to get the Cornish Cross meat bird that is mostly what you find in the supermarket. They grow super quickly and get processed around 12 weeks. Any being kept as pets HAVE to be put on a specially diet and even then will likely die on their own around 9 months: body simply gives up. The hybrid is usually unable to reproduce so breeders keep lines of Cornish and lines of Rocks going with the cross happening in other pens.

There are other meat bird lines that are more self sustainable (Rangers, and many of the heritage like Breese). Most of the meat bird specific breeds don't lay all that many eggs in a year. Dual purpose breeds lay more eggs and have enough meat on their frames to be worth eating also. Layer breeds are egg laying machines (we know the problems with that).

When you talk about breeds, it is usually hard for me to digest, but this time I understood everything you said!! I learned!

Thank you for not giving us up.

 

[BY Bob]

Barred is the specific coloring of Plymouth Rock breed. It's a bit of a mouthful, so the Plymouth gets left off. All ____ Rock chickens are Plymouth Rocks. They come in Barred, Black, White, Silver Penciled (look like Primula and Belladonna without the feathered feet and smaller size), Blue, Buff, Partridge (Pear), and probably more colors. All (unless specifically specified for that color variety) should have yellow legs, eye color and body shape (including the "tent" tail) he talked about. The White Rock is specifically crossed with Cornish (@bgmathteach, the Dark Cornish? or are there other Cornish varieties?) to get the Cornish Cross meat bird that is mostly what you find in the supermarket. They grow super quickly and get processed around 12 weeks. Any being kept as pets HAVE to be put on a specially diet and even then will likely die on their own around 9 months: body simply gives up. The hybrid is usually unable to reproduce so breeders keep lines of Cornish and lines of Rocks going with the cross happening in other pens.

There are other meat bird lines that are more self sustainable (Rangers, and many of the heritage like Breese). Most of the meat bird specific breeds don't lay all that many eggs in a year. Dual purpose breeds lay more eggs and have enough meat on their frames to be worth eating also. Layer breeds are egg laying machines (we know the problems with that).

We raised white rocks when I was young for meat. I did not know it at the time but my Dad would get all roosters, have me raise them, and tell me I could add any hens to my laying flock. There were never any hens. When those boys came running across the yard together it was like thunder. Very large chickens. My Mom did not like them at all. I think they may have frightened her a little.

 

[rural mouse]

When you talk about breeds, it is usually hard for me to digest, but this time I understood everything you said!! I learned!

Thank you for not giving us up.

Glad it made sense. In general breed name is the last part. The rest is color variety. The newish hybrids and designer ones (sapphire gem for example) are sort of exceptions. The example I just used: translated into the same sort of thing would be Blue Mutt or something along those lines. Doesn't change that they're pretty birds, just sounds fancy.

 

[LhickenChicken]

That barred rooster, what's his breed? I have a cockerel that looks like that. His name is El Morya.

 

[ValarieF]

When you talk about breeds, it is usually hard for me to digest, but this time I understood everything you said!! I learned!

Thank you for not giving us up.

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