Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Marie2020]

Princess having her bath

Happy family

 

[Marie2020]

We have a pip!
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This is one of the purebred cochins! Morinth was very concerned over it, fretting away at me checking under her. But no threats of violence...like Samara did.

Polish chicken lady says the chicks are one boy and one girl. So Ric Flair and Bab Ross.
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These are really cute little fluffs

 

[featherhead007]

That is surely a New Hampshire Red.

So, Aero and Tudi are NewHampshire Red chooks.

 

[featherhead007]

It's a miracle I survived my baby to be honest. But she's doing well as a toddler now!

I have survived my three children’s infancy, toddler, teen and young adult days. It didn’t affect me at all, at all, at all oh Gezz am I repeating myself again? Next comes the inevitable reaching for my wallet (out of habit) help, please make it stop!

 

[BY Bob]

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Did my rounds to make sure everyone was okay in this heat and...Morinth has 3 eggies pipped! This cochin is already...unzipping? I think I'll be seeing a mystery color puff soon!!!

How exciting!

 

[BY Bob]

So, Aero and Tudi are NewHampshire Red chooks.

And beautiful

 

[BY Bob]

I have survived my three children’s infancy, toddler, teen and young adult days. It didn’t affect me at all, at all, at all oh Gezz am I repeating myself again? Next comes the inevitable reaching for my wallet (out of habit) help, please make it stop!

Tax is required.

 

[Sylvester017]

I love blue eggs!

Trivia ~ 2fer Thursday: Did you know there are only two egg shell colors ~ White and Blue? These are the only two chicken egg colors!

The white shells are white inside the shell.

The blue shells stay blue inside the shell too.

Then where do brown, pink, speckled brown spots, cream-colored, or tinted eggs come from? A pigment coats the white shell as the egg forms before the chicken lays her egg. As the hen's laying season advances the pigment lessens in intensity to where the brown eggs start to fade more. A brown egg is a pigment-coated white egg so the inside shell remains white since the brown pigment only "coats" the outside shell. A speckle-coated brown egg like Welsummer or some Marans speckled shells means the brown pigment coated irregularly but the inside shell will still be white! No matter how dark the Marans outside shell is the inside will still be white. How much brown pigment a hen forms is determined by inherited genes from her breeding history.

Where do olive, green or avocado egg colors come from? By cross-breeding blue egg-laying chickens with brown pigment egg-layers the brown pigment "coats" the outside blue shell and produces a variety of olive, green, or avocado colored eggs. Quite an interesting genetic study to produce these colors. And no matter the outside colors, the inside shell remains blue dominant. How deep a blue? Again it depends on the hen's genetic history.

https://www.thehenhousecollection.com/blog/chicken-egg-colors-guide/

 

[Sylvester017]

Tx

 

[janiedoe]

My MIL and my Sunday School asst both had polio as children 1940-1950 and they were crippled for life from it and both passed away by 60 ~ not sure that was an associated cause? As for small pox I think I was given a placebo vaccination since I never developed the telltale scab or scarring. I felt cheated since all the other kids bragged about their scars!

These days there are childhood vaccinations for measles, whooping cough, tetanus, and chicken pox but not in my childhood 80-90 yrs ago. My sis in 1934 got whooping cough at 3 months and nearly died and I had the fun of getting measles and chicken pox as a kid a few yrs later.

I've never had any modern crucial shots like covid, pneumonia, shingles or other old people shots and I survived those anyway. Well, not the shingles but mom survived it. My DD survived a coma from viral encephalitis of the brain (same virus that causes chicken pox and shingles) so what else does the viral world want to throw at my family before new vaccines become available to us?

Yes, I'm a hearty supporter of animal vaccinations but unfortunately not too many kinds are developed for chickens. If a poultry business euthanizes an infected flock they just hatch a new warehouse of replacement chicks in 21 days to take to market in less than 2 months ~ chicken life is easily replaced in short order. Only Marek's was important enuf for chicken vaccinations in the poultry industry. Why are chickens so easily dismissed as nonessential creatures I'll never understand. Rant over

Tx

WATTLES ~ My old phone cover
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Statue
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Juvenile Dominique wattles
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I enjoyed your rant immensely! The pictures are great too.