Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Oh, I wanted Otloffs but I couldn’t get them other than straight run. Aren’t they crazy looking ? I still would like a couple pullets.

I'd get a straight run and aim for breeding them.

 

[rural mouse]

Hello FBA ! Haven't posted photos in a while, I will try to catch up next week as I have a few I’ve kept for other days. I have a few butts for today, and a comb question.

Pied-beau’s behind. Not exactly fluffy but shiny.
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His sweetheart Lilly has a poopy fluffy butt
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Mélisse has a pullet's sleek butt. She laid her first egg a few days ago, and is the first of the pullets to lay (hatched on the 20 May).
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Laure is growing big ...and so is her butt !
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And a question for those of you who have some knowledge on different types of comb. I’ve been told a few times Théo’s comb was "strange" and a few days ago someone said that it must have been torn and wounded to look like this ! He did get into a few real fights with Gaston some months ago but most of the time it was his wattles that got torn the most, and I don't recall that it was ever to the point of being worried about it. Any opinion on whether his comb is naturally split or due to a bruise ? ( He is molting by the way and very touchy if anyone mentions it!)
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Not sure on the comb....your pullets are a mite ahead of my Invasion. Chia I expect to lay any day (may 29 hatch day), although the cold and snow will likely delay that (good for her growth and development). Yours are quite the eye candy (beautiful).

 

[RoyalChick]

I am sorry to laugh but that is eggsactly like Henny Penny

A whirling dervish, running every screaming at everyone picking fights, then she will go back to her nest and be quiet as a sleeping baby, until someone walks close by her, then it’s The Exorcist!

What I do now with her is remove her from the nest and put the food by her and stand guard not letting anyone near her. She is much better if she isn’t distracted by the others - makes her feel secure.

I will try that. She eats from my hand as I carry her out of the nest.

 

[Ponypoor]

Hello FBA ! Haven't posted photos in a while, I will try to catch up next week as I have a few I’ve kept for other days. I have a few butts for today, and a comb question.

Pied-beau’s behind. Not exactly fluffy but shiny.
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His sweetheart Lilly has a poopy fluffy butt
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Mélisse has a pullet's sleek butt. She laid her first egg a few days ago, and is the first of the pullets to lay (hatched on the 20 May).
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Laure is growing big ...and so is her butt !
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And a question for those of you who have some knowledge on different types of comb. I’ve been told a few times Théo’s comb was "strange" and a few days ago someone said that it must have been torn and wounded to look like this ! He did get into a few real fights with Gaston some months ago but most of the time it was his wattles that got torn the most, and I don't recall that it was ever to the point of being worried about it. Any opinion on whether his comb is naturally split or due to a bruise ? ( He is molting by the way and very touchy if anyone mentions it!)
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I don’t see anything unusual with it, maybe I don’t see the area you are asking about. At any rate he is gorgeous.

 

[Ponypoor]

I'd get a straight run and aim for breeding them.

More chickens ??

 

[Ponypoor]

I will try that. She eats from my hand as I carry her out of the nest.

I found if I stand guard and not let anyone near her, and sometimes I even put her in the feedroom, that she was better.

I think that the hormones that make them broody also make the squirrelly - as my silkies have got older and more experienced with this broody stuff they are a bit more mellow.

 

[Marie2020]

Caturday is coming in early.
My beautiful lazy boy snuggled up too me on a cold night

 

[Marie2020]

My old girlys

 

[Ponypoor]

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My old girlys

Are they playing peekaboo?

 

[Marie2020]

Are they playing peekaboo?

Yes, I love those kind of captures. Not so pretty a background but them being who they are