Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[RebeccaBoyd]

Apparently Poppy is real character
I loved what Rebecca has written about her, she had me in stitches laughing

Oh how I miss my little Poppy. She was a character and lived in her own little world. She just bee bopped here and there with the little ditty "Doo dooba dobba doo do do" playing in her head. Poppet is very similar to her. Until she went broody she was also a care free girl for the most part. Right now, she is mean and down to business but seeing as how I could not get her to move nest locations she is also being broken up. The chicks are also Poppy's nieces and nephews. The little black one, I am crossing my fingers it is a pullet. Nothing would give me greater joy then to have another black silkie bee bopping around the yard. Of the 6 chicks this is the one I have a conversation with nightly. She is told under no circumstances can she be the boy in the bunch. Mom told me yesterday just wait, that one will be my boy.

 

[rural mouse]

She sure did.

Maybe she'll lay green eggs then.....

 

[Lilion]

Yay...all my ladies were outside at the same time today. The older ladies are still wary of the Red Squadron, but they aren't staying in the hot coop.

 

[Marie2020]

CeeCee is causing trouble:View attachment 3909793

You don't say.
Or are you making up stories of these perfectly innocent little ones.

 

[Marie2020]

Yay...all my ladies were outside at the same time today. The older ladies are still wary of the Red Squadron, but they aren't staying in the hot coop.

"The Red Squadron"

 

[Marie2020]

Almost two.

She's always been a little odd. Her genetics are messed up (no tuft, more visible barring than her sister), she's long, her bum fluff hangs real low, and she's usually slow to walk. The egg thing is what bothers me.

I suppose you have done the Epsom salt vent soak and oil inside the vent? That has always been helpful for mine. Princess went inside the coop to lay her egg after that. But she still drops one off her perch occasionally but she is an old girl, a bit like me

 

[Lilion]

All the talk of laying and genetics has been interesting. Sheba has taken to laying the oddest eggs. They are long and skinny and every color of brown to nearly white. So odd. It's been going on for months and months...and she seems healthy, so we're not stressing about it.

She's about 2, but really has been a laying rockstar. She averages 5 a week easy, always has, and didn't slow much over winter. She never molted... so she still looks so bedraggled from the randy roosters. She's had some thinner shells, but we keep oyster shell available as well as layer food. All my older ladies are mixes.

 

[featherhead007]

You don't say.
Or are you making up stories of these perfectly innocent little ones.

They are not innocent. They are troublemakers! Especially CeeCee!

 

[Sylvester017]

Wow. Those fantastic eyes in picture 1, is stunning

Baby and juvenile eyes are very pretty. Our Dominiques had blue eyes as youngsters till they turned the usual reddish-bay color as near adults!

By 4-mo-old the blue eyes turned orange

 

[Sylvester017]

Ohhh, what a lovely picture @rural mouse !

It almost looks like a Rockwell painting - such a pretty hen (and, yes, finally in FOCUS!), and a gorgeous backdrop, too.

Pretty picture! Notice the faint shading on the front of the hen's legs and top of toes. BRs and Dom females have this shading on their legs as chicks but the males should not according to SOP (The American Dominique: a Treatise for the Fancier" by Mark Fields). BRs and Doms have shared ancestry and both are auto-sexing breeds. As adults the leg shading eventually disappears.