Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Gah! Oh no! How dreadful, I hope it heals up quickly.
Many of us have slipped in turds… but there has to be some sort of an elite crew of folks who can claim they’ve slipped on a whole mountain of poop.

Oh that poop is very slippery! I hate when I slide down the ramp going out of the barn - brick pavers and squishy poop are very slippery!

 

[Ponypoor]

Two-fer Tuesday

Two old ladies

Two dirty birds

Two looking for treats

And two hairy legs

 

[Ponypoor]

For Penelope

She is still the Ruler here, generally calm and doesn’t create much fuss. Stay clear of trouble!

 

[rural mouse]

2 golden heads, with 2 fluffy bums

2 black-dusted tails


And in the spirit @Ponypoor started this morning....

2 wings

She launched from the step behind her and made it to the edge of the snow. (Hamburg x leghorn mix have EXCELLENT flight skills, for chickens)

 

[knoturavggrl]

So my Orps are laying normal sized eggs now and the shells are hard, I am gonna run a test hatch of 6- 12 eggs and see what the fertilization rate looks like.

I have a 22 egg incubator though sooooo what, if any crosses would you do?

FBCM - Brownie - drk brown eggs
EE Cinnamon - med green eggs
Welsummer Ginger - reddish tan with speckles eggs
Amerucana peanut - Blue eggs
EE flour and sugar - dark mossy green with speckle eggs
Silverrudds Blue Biscotti- light green eggs
2 Azure eggers (roadrunner look) - teal blue and med green eggs

Can cross with the 2 jubilee orps roosters for an interesting feather pattern or for egg color.

The jubilee pattern is so complicated I can’t wrap my head around the possible outcomes lol so I would love to hear your opinions on which eggs you would set, if any.

 

[knoturavggrl]

Mugs for Monday:
Flour

Lore

And Flour again

Twofer Tuesday: Peanut and Biscotti

 

[rural mouse]

So my Orps are laying normal sized eggs now and the shells are hard, I am gonna run a test hatch of 6- 12 eggs and see what the fertilization rate looks like.

I have a 22 egg incubator though sooooo what, if any crosses would you do?

FBCM - Brownie - drk brown eggs
EE Cinnamon - med green eggs
Welsummer Ginger - reddish tan with speckles eggs
Amerucana peanut - Blue eggs
EE flour and sugar - dark mossy green with speckle eggs
Silverrudds Blue Biscotti- light green eggs
2 Azure eggers (roadrunner look) - teal blue and med green eggs

Can cross with the 2 jubilee orps roosters for an interesting feather pattern or for egg color.

The jubilee pattern is so complicated I can’t wrap my head around the possible outcomes lol so I would love to hear your opinions on which eggs you would set, if any.

I haven't looked at Jubilee orpingtons genetically, but if it runs like the sussex and mottling (Thing), the crosses will be split to speckled, meaning the mottling will be hidden under their base color. Your splash marked birds (biscotti, sugar and flour, I think) will likely throw blue babies: 1 copy of the diluted black gene. That could be an interesting look with the jubilee: red/gold leakage, possible blue instead of black mottled.

Egg color: orps are brown egg layers, so ALL your blue egg babies will lay green eggs

 

[bgmathteach]

So my Orps are laying normal sized eggs now and the shells are hard, I am gonna run a test hatch of 6- 12 eggs and see what the fertilization rate looks like.

I have a 22 egg incubator though sooooo what, if any crosses would you do?

FBCM - Brownie - drk brown eggs
EE Cinnamon - med green eggs
Welsummer Ginger - reddish tan with speckles eggs
Amerucana peanut - Blue eggs
EE flour and sugar - dark mossy green with speckle eggs
Silverrudds Blue Biscotti- light green eggs
2 Azure eggers (roadrunner look) - teal blue and med green eggs

Can cross with the 2 jubilee orps roosters for an interesting feather pattern or for egg color.

The jubilee pattern is so complicated I can’t wrap my head around the possible outcomes lol so I would love to hear your opinions on which eggs you would set, if any.

I would love to see a Brownie or two (just 'cause I love her and would like to see the personality of her cross Jubilee Orpington.)

I also Vote for a couple of the Azure eggers and at least one EE/Americauna (think: Jubilee with muffs and beards on top of all that fluff!!!!)

 

[RoyalChick]

I haven't looked at Jubilee orpingtons genetically, but if it runs like the sussex and mottling (Thing), the crosses will be split to speckled, meaning the mottling will be hidden under their base color. Your splash marked birds (biscotti, sugar and flour, I think) will likely throw blue babies: 1 copy of the diluted black gene. That could be an interesting look with the jubilee: red/gold leakage, possible blue instead of black mottled.

Egg color: orps are brown egg layers, so ALL your blue egg babies will lay green eggs

Just when I thought I was beginning to understand!

 

[RoyalChick]

Jubilee with muffs and beards on top of all that fluff!!!!)