Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Success today. The game rooster from next door came over and was inside the run eating our chooks feed. Rudy (my Wyandottey rooster) beat the pizz out of him and sent him home.

 

[Marie2020]

Success today. The game rooster from next door came over and was inside the run eating our chooks feed. Rudy (my Wyandottey rooster) beat the pizz out of him and sent him home.

Perhaps he's not being fed

 

[BY Bob]

Ya - sure! You got eggs at Walmart and shoved them under her !

Look at the guy on YouTube who hatched the quail eggs from the store!

I saw that video. Very touching.

 

[featherhead007]

Perhaps he's not being fed

That’s a good possibility. The neighbor has no clue on how to treat animals.

 

[bgmathteach]

Weather tax for the possible solar flares.

Jaffarra says we need to see the northern lights

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Hmmm, it actually looks more like she is saying:

Hooman, you want to see those pretty Northern lights!?!?

It'll cost ya - either a handful of meally worms....OR....
"I'll peck your eye out!! And I mean business - pay up, or I'll take the fee outta your 'hide'




YES, they do....so pay up:


mmmuahhhha

 

[rural mouse]

I know right! I bought Lavender Orpington eggs. How can there be a mixup? I will be requesting answers.

Where did you get them? I'm thinking of checking their list on my own to see if anything sparks. After playing what breed of chicken is this? with Cheetah and the girls with him, I find that rather fun!

She came from a brown egg. I got them from a breeder I had never worked with before. Scarborough Farms. I checked today and they currently offer:

1. French Black Tail Red Maran
2. Assorted French Marans
3. Black Copper Maran
4. Silkies
5. Rhode Island Red
6. Dominique
7. White Leghorn
8. Easter Egger

Aster is NONE of those. Wonder where they're getting the changing breeds from...

 

[rural mouse]

Well, cross off all Marans varieties and silkie for her as a possibility. Really on that list I would say leghorn, but she is not a leghorn. Orpingtons do come in splash. Is there any chance you could get splash from a lavender breeding? She is pretty but I am so sorry there was a mix up. I hope they make it right for you. You should get what you ordered.

No chance. Lavender is self-blue rather than Blue, Black, Splash. If a chick isn't double for Lavender, they pop black split to Lavender. Means they're black, but when crossed with another, 1/4 chance of popping Lavender as it's hidden under the black.

 

[bgmathteach]

They denied she was theirs. She must have come from somewhere else. That was their stance.

Hmmm, instead of 'Phantom of the Opera", it was 'Phantom egg Fairy"????

Well, I guess you have a federal/felony case, then! It is a federal crime to tamper with mail!!

 

[rural mouse]

I need to be barred from facebook for a few weeks. It is that time of year, my local poultry and livestock groups are listing their excess roosters. This morning 4 new adds pop up. All with to me gorgeous silkie cockerels. Between the adds there are white boys, black boys, a red boy and some poppet colored boys. I may be sorely tempted on one or two of them but no I must wait. Before I go silkie cockerel shopping I need to be certain I do not have a Branch son. I really think I do, but the waiting game is killing me.

Ended up visiting a Living Homestead (historical garb included). They had 7 chickens in the coop. A light Brahma pullet, a silver laced wyandotte pullet (looks close to laying), a sapphire gem pullet, a splash Americana pullet, a red partridge bantam cochin pullet, also close to laying, and 2 silkies: a black and a white....both cockerels.

All the pics. Saw the white doing the herding shuffle and the black tidbitted. White is crowing.

When the Homestead closes for the winter, they will be going home with one of the staff.

 

[rural mouse]

Meat Bird

The seller of the eggs is saying that Aster is a meat bird and therefore could not have possibly come from them................

I'm not getting my money back. I will keep speaking with them but I'm not getting my money back.

Sounds like posting a review is going to be a potential need.