Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Tassels lays green eggs but much darker.
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Wow those are lovely eggs! Gorgeous colours

 

[Ponypoor]

Gotta see this wheeled rig that can drive on water!

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Yep gonna need to refit the horse trailer I guess!

 

[knoturavggrl]

Doesn't @knoturavggrl have 4?

I do but they will not molt this year since they are quite young still, hatch day for them was right around Cinco de Mayo. So, I still have a whole year to wait till they do a full on molt to see if they change their spots pattern.

I can say they did appear to have a lot more spots when they initially grew their feathers in particularly as tweens. They look as if they have “lost” spots as they have gotten older. I think some just get covered up by other feathers though. I have also seen this question in the jubilee Orp thread and it seemed like the general consensus was that the overall pattern does change but the amount of spots stays roughly the same.
Though some swore theirs lost or gained spots. It was a hot debate for sure !!

I suspect the truth is in the middle and it just depends on the individual bird as to what happens.

We will all have to watch, wait, and see how BY Bobs LF and Sally PB’s Jubilee look once they complete their transformations!

 

[knoturavggrl]

Tassels lays green eggs but much darker.
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Beautiful! They look alot like my “moss” eggers aka second generation Olive eggers eggs! I absolutely love them!

 

[Ponypoor]

Fluffy Butt Friday

Mr P ‘don’t look at my butt’

Henny Penny - dust bath in the sand pit

Misty - or maybe Whiskers

My original ladies eggs - theses days who knows who is who!

 

[RoyalChick]

Tassels lays green eggs but much darker.
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Correction.
Tassels used to lay green eggs. Now she has joined the ranks of the non-layers!

 

[RoyalChick]

I do but they will not molt this year since they are quite young still, hatch day for them was right around Cinco de Mayo. So, I still have a whole year to wait till they do a full on molt to see if they change their spots pattern.

I can say they did appear to have a lot more spots when they initially grew their feathers in particularly as tweens. They look as if they have “lost” spots as they have gotten older. I think some just get covered up by other feathers though. I have also seen this question in the jubilee Orp thread and it seemed like the general consensus was that the overall pattern does change but the amount of spots stays roughly the same.
Though some swore theirs lost or gained spots. It was a hot debate for sure !!

I suspect the truth is in the middle and it just depends on the individual bird as to what happens.

We will all have to watch, wait, and see how BY Bobs LF and Sally PB’s Jubilee look once they complete their transformations!

We need a standardized spot counting methodology!

 

[RoyalChick]

Fluffy Butt Friday

Mr P ‘don’t look at my butt’
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Henny Penny - dust bath in the sand pit
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Misty - or maybe Whiskers
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My original ladies eggs - theses days who knows who is who!
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Pretty!

 

[BY Bob]

Squeaking in with plenty of time technically left on the clock for “Thirsty Thursday”, but I know you all are a buncha early risers and prefer your photos first thing:
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I also took Rural Mouse’s advice to use nipple waterers exclusively in the run- but the moment they get out into the extension, Quincy beelines for a sloppy cuppa water. View attachment 3695297

For fun, here are before and after-ish molt photos of Dottie my speckled Sussex.
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After (more like the mid-way point, she still has a buncha feathers growing in): View attachment 3695301

Wow! That is a major increase in spots for certain! Who knew?

 

[BY Bob]

Happy Friday