Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

I'm saying so far buff orpington is a breed match for what they're looking like, but so are other breeds such as buff rock. Going off hoover's identify chick list, Amberlink, calico princess, California white, deleware, buff chantecler, golden comet, male ISA brown, prairie bluebell Eggers, even a light variety of new hampshire all can have fluffy yellow chicks. The list isn't exhaustive of chicken breeds and I left off all those with feathered feet. I don't know the differences between amberlinks and calico Princesses for example, and your little darlings haven't grown enough to show some of the characteristics that will make that clear....just as they haven't shown if any are male yet. Meanwhile, keep taking pics (you know we love those) and sharing sweet moments with us. Also share all the memories of Jaffar you care to as we all loved him too.

I promise I will examine every pic for chick breed identification and tell you what I can.

That’s it!!! Darn it, if they are not Buff Orpingtons, I’m gonna take them back !!

 

[rural mouse]

That definitely eliminates the rocks, leghorns, and any other yellow leg breed. Buff orp is very high on the list of possibles.

Also eliminates amberlink and deleware.

California white looks to have white legs and lays white eggs. Also mostly white feathers so buff orp still very likely possibility. Don't you have 1 that's feathering out more white?

 

[notabitail]

You all got to 19000 pages. The top five biggest talkers here are:
@BY Bob
@Ponypoor
@featherhead007
@RoyalChick
@Marie2020

 

[rural mouse]

That’s it!!! Darn it, if they are not Buff Orpingtons, I’m gonna take them back !!

No you won't. You already love them. And I do think they're buff orpingtons....75% certain. There's just more development I want to see before I up that percentage.

 

[notabitail]

You all got to 19000 pages. The top five biggest talkers here are:
@BY Bob
@Ponypoor
@featherhead007
@RoyalChick
@Marie2020

If you didn't make the top five, you need to talk more.

 

[featherhead007]

No you won't. You already love them. And I do think they're buff orpingtons....75% certain. There's just more development I want to see before I up that percentage.

Just tell me that they are Orpingtons, and I’ll send you the check.

 

[knoturavggrl]

Please pardon my impatience. I have never had a baby Buff Orpington chick before and I was wondering if I had some now.

The one in the forefront does look like it possibly could be and no pardon needed, I was the same way! Must know NOW

 

[featherhead007]

I’m not looking to replace my old rooster BEN with a new Buff O buddy (it would be nice) but I have been very fortunate to have had the best experience with roosters in my court.
Sir Jaffar is in a whole different league than: BLU, or BEN, or Peeps, Blackie or the other Roos I have known.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Sharp eyed Rural Mouse

I was at Peavey Mart getting some beet pulp and 36% poultry supplement for the big girls and popped over to see how many they had left from the arrivals on Tuesday - there was this crazy arse Americana chick eyeing the rim of the enclosure just looking at flying out - and then she did right into my shopping cart! Along the way she grabbed a BR by the head and dragged her into the cart also!

That chick is bonkers I tell you bonkers! She bit my hand and told me ‘March Hooman, or your eye is next!’.

Well now what’s a girl to do? So I marched !

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Wild Thing, if that is to be her name, will grow up to be a beauty.
This pretty girl Owly

is convinced you have her baby sister.

I told her it was not likely but she would hear none of it.

It is hard to argue with miss Know-It-All.

Apparently we are to check back with her in about 6 months time. She claims she will look like her and be another green egg layer for you. She also demands when she is right, she gets a whole box of raisins to herself.

 

[ChicoryBlue]

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Could it be an apricot of some kind? The bark looks like the "prunus" type things. We had two apricots, one died, it needs a second to pollinate. So it mostly never had fruit (one year something DID pollinate it and there were tiny, barely edible fruits). It got fairly wrecked one winter so we've just cut it down. It bloomed before the leaves, very early in the Spring, they looked similar, and they were fragrant.