For some reason the first page of this thread popped up and I was admiring Jabber, what a gorgeous rooster! So thought I’d say hi! 
Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock
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Chicks from the Disc
Hi! This thread has been fun. Lots of super nice and knowledgeable people here, so feel free to stick aroundFor some reason the first page of this thread popped up and I was admiring Jabber, what a gorgeous rooster! So thought I’d say hi!
Last year (I think it was) we had the ‘how to photograph for the sheen’ discussion, we learnt that overcast and low light offers the best conditions for photographing the sheen.Aliss has a beautiful green sheen on her feathers.
Hmm. Let's see how a photoshoot will go.
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I love that the edges of her back feathers have a darker outline. Also moving
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At certain angles and in certain light the feathers do take on a more purple sheen.
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See, she looks much purpler here! But you can still see the green, too
Esme also has a bit of sheen, but not as much
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Actually... Magrat, too
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Irritated Magrat face. Sorry, but I needed to show you off!
I took these last year - July 2023
Eli-too
Rico
Hi! Feel free to join in.For some reason the first page of this thread popped up and I was admiring Jabber, what a gorgeous rooster! So thought I’d say hi!
Such beautiful pullets you have there, what a nice flockAliss has a beautiful green sheen on her feathers.
Hmm. Let's see how a photoshoot will go.
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I love that the edges of her back feathers have a darker outline. Also moving
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At certain angles and in certain light the feathers do take on a more purple sheen.
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See, she looks much purpler here! But you can still see the green, too
Esme also has a bit of sheen, but not as much
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Actually... Magrat, too
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Irritated Magrat face. Sorry, but I needed to show you off!
Gorgeous.
Yes, I remember that discussion and have got better at getting pictures of green and purple.
I love the sheen on black chickens.
SimpleJenn
Stitchin' chickens
Hmmm! We have an ivory egg!
It was found in Cream's usual hangout so I guess...Cream lays Cream eggs!!!
They are beginning to adjust to Popcorn being gone. Hazel was pretty out of sorts for a few days. She looked despondent and acted withdrawn. I tried to comfort her with little food offerings and calling her name a lot so she would come nearer. She's not a lap chicken, she's quite nervous, but she will eat greens and pellets from my hand.
She began asserting herself with everyone here just a few days ago. She started coming close to me, and sternly pecking others away when I offered pellets (so it's a two-handed affair, the Orps just have to keep switching hands) whereas when Popcorn was alive she used to wait on everyone and only was concerned about sharing with Popcorn. She is molting slowly and eats well.
Left to right - Diane Ida-Biter, Hazel, Tedi and Annie. They like that corner, and can hang there now, but I was late in turning the warmers off since it got warm again and it was too warm there I think. Had them on for Diane when it was pretty cold here, she's lost a ton of fluff under-feathers and snuggled close against the heaters. The other two Buff Orps also hung near, but Hazel the tough and hardy Buckeye sat some feet away.
Preening party
Two-Fer mugshots of Tedi (left) and Annie, Annie's neck indicates she is beginning a molt. Both Annie and Tedi think that chopped hemp is really interesting and come over and hop up to forage, explore it and eat a few bits every time there's good light on the next boxes so they can see. Same when the poop trays are out for the daily poop pickup they rush over to jump up on them and check it all out.
Diane Ida-Biter below. She is into what looks to be a heavy molt. Her fluff feathers just exploded out of her the last two weeks. And she is almost tail-less. But no bare spots yet. She's still trying to bite me on the hands and also chases & bites ankles. She's all up in my business looking for an opening whenever I'm doing stuff, and I've made changes in the coop and run so I'm doing a lot of ground-level work, fixing a couple pavers at the coop-run connection and attaching welded wire, etc.
She got insanely peckish the last couple of weeks and I now think her molt is partly to blame. Hazel does a lot of correcting her, and so do the other two Buff Orps. I don't know that she has any close friends, which makes me sorry for her, but they all let her hang with them - foraging, preening, & resting, as long as she's behaving herself. Hazel has taken over the protecting of me like Popcorn used to do. She comes over looking very concerned when Diane starts her whiny keening sound at me. Diane is afraid of her and often retreats.
But Diane is surprisingly tame, she eats pellets from my hands, nicely & well mannered until she's had her fill, which isn't as much as it used to be maybe because of the molt. She doesn't struggle much when I pick her up to examine her. Sometimes when Diane is being a total pain I just carry her around like a football under my arm so I can get something done, even if one-handed. She's pretty compliant. Have I brought this on with my keeping practices? Nobody else here is like this.
I am hoping she will mellow with age, she's 15 months old, but am prepared for what's probably going to be a life of pecked & bitten hands and needing eyes in the back of my head (shout-out to barn boots).
DH calls her "Diane Tire-Biter"
She began asserting herself with everyone here just a few days ago. She started coming close to me, and sternly pecking others away when I offered pellets (so it's a two-handed affair, the Orps just have to keep switching hands) whereas when Popcorn was alive she used to wait on everyone and only was concerned about sharing with Popcorn. She is molting slowly and eats well.
Left to right - Diane Ida-Biter, Hazel, Tedi and Annie. They like that corner, and can hang there now, but I was late in turning the warmers off since it got warm again and it was too warm there I think. Had them on for Diane when it was pretty cold here, she's lost a ton of fluff under-feathers and snuggled close against the heaters. The other two Buff Orps also hung near, but Hazel the tough and hardy Buckeye sat some feet away.
Preening party
Two-Fer mugshots of Tedi (left) and Annie, Annie's neck indicates she is beginning a molt. Both Annie and Tedi think that chopped hemp is really interesting and come over and hop up to forage, explore it and eat a few bits every time there's good light on the next boxes so they can see. Same when the poop trays are out for the daily poop pickup they rush over to jump up on them and check it all out.
Diane Ida-Biter below. She is into what looks to be a heavy molt. Her fluff feathers just exploded out of her the last two weeks. And she is almost tail-less. But no bare spots yet. She's still trying to bite me on the hands and also chases & bites ankles. She's all up in my business looking for an opening whenever I'm doing stuff, and I've made changes in the coop and run so I'm doing a lot of ground-level work, fixing a couple pavers at the coop-run connection and attaching welded wire, etc.
She got insanely peckish the last couple of weeks and I now think her molt is partly to blame. Hazel does a lot of correcting her, and so do the other two Buff Orps. I don't know that she has any close friends, which makes me sorry for her, but they all let her hang with them - foraging, preening, & resting, as long as she's behaving herself. Hazel has taken over the protecting of me like Popcorn used to do. She comes over looking very concerned when Diane starts her whiny keening sound at me. Diane is afraid of her and often retreats.
But Diane is surprisingly tame, she eats pellets from my hands, nicely & well mannered until she's had her fill, which isn't as much as it used to be maybe because of the molt. She doesn't struggle much when I pick her up to examine her. Sometimes when Diane is being a total pain I just carry her around like a football under my arm so I can get something done, even if one-handed. She's pretty compliant. Have I brought this on with my keeping practices? Nobody else here is like this.
I am hoping she will mellow with age, she's 15 months old, but am prepared for what's probably going to be a life of pecked & bitten hands and needing eyes in the back of my head (shout-out to barn boots).
DH calls her "Diane Tire-Biter"
How blessed you are to enjoy such a variety of birds!
In the beginning I hadn't wanted black feathered birds because our summer sun is brutal here & figured the black would absorb more heat unnecessarily for the poor bird. But even the non-black birds are suffering in heatwaves & all seek out shade & sprinkler/hose water to cool down anyway so I changed my mind & have since had many black, dark partridge, or cuckoo black birds.
You captured the black sheens perfectly in picsAliss has a beautiful green sheen on her feathers.
Hmm. Let's see how a photoshoot will go.
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I love that the edges of her back feathers have a darker outline. Also moving
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At certain angles and in certain light the feathers do take on a more purple sheen.
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See, she looks much purpler here! But you can still see the green, too
Esme also has a bit of sheen, but not as much
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Actually... Magrat, too
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Irritated Magrat face. Sorry, but I needed to show you off!
Teehee ~ You need a ring too that resembles the hawklike pose Magrat does.
A stainless steel ring I got on ebay that resembled my breda fowl "Char"
For some reason the first page of this thread popped up and I was admiring Jabber, what a gorgeous rooster! So thought I’d say hi!
Back atchya!You gotta show us your birds teehee! pure breeds, mixes, bantams, giants, etc!
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