Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

It’s got plenty of tail inside that buttfluff. I guess I should just wait and see what happens.

Here's a picture of a Breda cockerel approx 4+ months ~ plenty of saddle feathers but still no exquisite tail or sickle feathers that are known on Breda roos.
COCKEREL

A Breda pullet at the same age has a full straight-up tail.
PULLET

Any feathers at the tail are more rounded on females while male feathers forming at the tail are usually more pointy at the ends of the newly forming tail feathers.

 

[Ponypoor]

If she's tiny it might not be good to keep her w/full sized mating males?!

She’s an Americana, love her beard and muffs She is just a couple months old right now. So she will be a regular sized hen when fully grown.

My Roos are splendid with the babies, Mr LC likes to chase them and harass them but he is a young brat, and now those youngest chicks are bigger than he is, soon they will also figure that out and give him a thumping!

The one I do worry about is Mrs Little Chicken. I will definitely have to keep her separate from the other Roos in another while, she is even more tiny than the silkies. It freakes me out how tiny she is! How will she lay an egg?!

 

[Sylvester017]

I wonder if that’s a silkie thing?

And my MM Marans Shorley, hasn’t crowed yet…. Meanwhile Mr Little Chicken is a screaming demon! He sure has turned on the hormones since Rosario arrived!

It's also a Breda thing. I watched a youtube video on an owner who had several different breeds also.

 

[Marie2020]

That’s a funny photo with Puss looking over the fence at her

He's always somewhere nearby. Around the side wall or on that bike. I think he cares for her and the dog.

 

[featherhead007]

I wonder if that’s a silkie thing?

And my MM Marans Shorley, hasn’t crowed yet…. Meanwhile Mr Little Chicken is a screaming demon! He sure has turned on the hormones since Rosario arrived!

 

[RoyalChick]

Calypso is still deciding whether she has finished being broody or not.
She went back to the nest last night but it was occupied by Tassels (of course) and Calypso doesn’t really like to share so she slept on the roost right outside the nest boxes.
We’ll see what happens tonight, but meanwhile I have moved Tassels into the broody jail. She wasn’t happy with me about that, but at least she gets to eat something.

 

[featherhead007]

I just gave Dakota a bath, she needed it, but I’m wet now too.

 

[featherhead007]

I just gave Dakota a bath, she needed it, but I’m wet now too.

 

[RoyalChick]

Calypso is still deciding whether she has finished being broody or not.
She went back to the nest last night but it was occupied by Tassels (of course) and Calypso doesn’t really like to share so she slept on the roost right outside the nest boxes.
We’ll see what happens tonight, but meanwhile I have moved Tassels into the broody jail. She wasn’t happy with me about that, but at least she gets to eat something.
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I should add that in comparison to Calypso, Tassels is a very lovable broody.
She is gorgeously fluffy and she just mutters at me when I pick her up.
I am sure if I understood Chicken I would be shocked at her language, but no gloves needed.

 

[RoyalChick]

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Awww.

Now you can practice using the delete button and remove the duplicate without the photo!