Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

Have you ever used PDZ odor control in your poop board under a perch? I never had a poop board so never used it.

 

[featherhead007]

That doesn't make sense...she would have to wake up to get in the bucket

 

[Sylvester017]

I think it is less teaming up and more that a good sunbathing spot attracts followers. I find one flops down and someone else immediately runs up to join her.

That's the mentality of chickens ~ they see a hen eating, or drinking, or preening or sunbathing, or napping, or dustbathing ~ "Oh, is that what we're doing now?" and they join in the activity!!!

 

[rural mouse]

The Other Possibilities

So I got the Polish eggs from Omega Hill Farms. They offer the following breeds:

Breed​	Egg​	Chick​
Bielefelder​	Brown	Chipmunk
Blue Isbar	Mint Green	Dark Grey
Cream Legbar	Blue	Brown
French Black Copper Maran	Dark Brown	Black & Yellow
Tolbunt Polish	White	Chipmunk

I can't figure out how Miss Terry Aster came from any combination of these but perhaps as you know genetics better than me @rural mouse you can put something together.

Remember Aster was all yellow as a chick.

She doesn't fit any of those either...unless there's something with the blue isbar. Not real familiar with those so let me look......

As a splash bird, she could be one of these (note the splash chick at the bottom). The build looks pretty close.

https://www.feathersite.com/Poultry/CGD/Isbar/BRKIsbar.html


Egg color....both Glynda and Lady F got some of both eggs, right? Do you have pics of all the eggs before they were placed?

 

[BY Bob]

Egg color....both Glynda and Lady F got some of both eggs, right? Do you have pics of all the eggs before they were placed?

Here you go. Orpington on top.

 

[Sylvester017]

Twofer, a pair of Polish
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Gorgeous birds & a pretty pic!

 

[rural mouse]

@rural mouse , how many chickens do you have now ? I'm following on and off and between the losses you had and the chicks that are now grown I'm not sure anymore.

33 birds, 4 of which are roos. Makes evening head count interesting when several are on the nest boxes behind me, 2-3 darkish ones (Pear, Storm, Indigo, Jane...) like to pick end roosts spots where the blend into the shadows...and the rest cuss me out when I use a light, even my phone screen when it's dimmed all the way down....

 

[Sylvester017]

The Other Possibilities

So I got the Polish eggs from Omega Hill Farms. They offer the following breeds:

Breed​	Egg​	Chick​
Bielefelder​	Brown	Chipmunk
Blue Isbar	Mint Green	Dark Grey
Cream Legbar	Blue	Brown
French Black Copper Maran	Dark Brown	Black & Yellow
Tolbunt Polish	White	Chipmunk

I can't figure out how Miss Terry Aster came from any combination of these but perhaps as you know genetics better than me @rural mouse you can put something together.

Remember Aster was all yellow as a chick.

Legbar history has Leghorn as a cross-breeder so if white is a dominant gene that may be why Aster is mostly white w/ still a possibility of laying a colored egg?

 

[rural mouse]

Here you go. Orpington on top.

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The blue isbar are supposed to lay green eggs. I have the offspring of a green layer (Havoc) who lays brown eggs, so it's possible to get a brown layer out of a green egg (only 1 copy of the blue shell gene). Dunno if it's possible to get a white egg layer out of that: parent R has brown sprayer with white shell and parent H has blue shell without brown sprayer seems somewhat plausible for her egg mother.... in which case she could have come from a white egg...... and lay blue or green eggs (shell color from the father R).


Disclaimer: this is getting into some wild speculation, but does fit the way she looks....and that the only white eggs came from the tolbunt supplier.

 

[BY Bob]

The blue isbar are supposed to lay green eggs. I have the offspring of a green layer (Havoc) who lays brown eggs, so it's possible to get a brown layer out of a green egg (only 1 copy of the blue shell gene). Dunno if it's possible to get a white egg layer out of that: parent R has brown sprayer with white shell and parent H has blue shell without brown sprayer seems somewhat plausible for her egg mother.... in which case she could have come from a white egg...... and lay blue or green eggs (shell color from the father R).


Disclaimer: this is getting into some wild speculation, but does fit the way she looks....and that the only white eggs came from the tolbunt supplier.

This is assuming she came from a white egg and not a brown egg like I thought, correct?