Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[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.

But the chick color would rule that out, correct? The Isbars are dark colored chicks. Or is the chick color also subject to change..............

 

[Sylvester017]

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?

To add ~ the poor royal over-used Leghorn is also used extensively to create new breeds & hybrids to improve egg production. Also, the poor sweeties have been used as guinea pigs purposely caged up in regions to detect West Nile virus since Leghorns can be bitten & are immune & their blood drawn to detect if the virus-carrying mosquitos exist in the area!

 

[Sylvester017]

But the chick color would rule that out, correct? The Isbars are dark colored chicks. Or is the chick color also subject to change..............

Too many variables going on here.

 

[RoyalChick]

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!!!

FOMO

 

[Marie2020]

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

I use cardboard

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Sometimes you just got to know when to admit defeat and call in professionals.

Yellowjackets have been terrible this year. I have never saw them this bad. It is not just us, it is everywhere around. I've saw news reports that Kentucky, West Virginia and Tennessee are horrible.

We knew there was a nest under the porch. We assumed it was under the ground. We have tried everything, homemade traps that were effective. Mom bought some kind of powder to kill them but no matter how many we killed there was still a insane number of the demons on the porch. We have not used our front door for over a week. This evening we had a exterminator come out. We were fighting a loosing battle. He found the nest and it was not under the ground. They had built a huge paper nest in our insulation and around the floor boards. The nest was removed and destroyed, and some kind of chemical sprayed for them. We were then assured that the few that remained would move on in the next 24 hours now that they do not have a nest to come back to and defend. If they are still a problem in a few more days he will come back out and look for another nest under the floor at no cost.

 

[notabitail]

Two-fer Tuesday:
Dominica and Empress Josephine.
@BY Bob and @Sylvester017 look here.

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

Congratulations to @Ponypoor. Ol' Blue really looks good!

 

[Ponypoor]

Two for Tuesday

Two siblings

Two silkie sisters

Two sisters and two frizzles

Tried to get Curly and Betty together but they wouldn’t cooperate.

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

Twofers!
Has anyone heard of Dance Moms?