Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Tax for my previous post. I have a few video's from yesterday I need to upload sometime today.

Mrs. E.
Pictures do not do this girl justice. I've always wanted a dark brahma. Mrs. E will eventually need her standard size cousin.
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Holly, she has came out of her worst molt yet and is looking splendid. Her face is reddening back up. She is gearing up to come back online soon. I miss my marans eggs.
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Mrs E is truly stunning!

 

[Ponypoor]

Gucci was always playing dead. I wonder if it's a Polish thing.

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I think it’s the heavy topknots. Sometimes Muffy will sleep like this also, she has a fluffy topknot.

I caught Rosario sleeping like this last week though so who knows, he sure doesn’t have any topknot.

 

[Ponypoor]

It’s official. CeeCee is laying cream colored eggs. Blue is the one gifting me with the blue ones.

Oh that’s a lovely colour - you are getting a colourful basket of colours now.

 

[Ponypoor]

2fer

Some old dearly missed friends.

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Gosh they were adorable

What colour is this?

 

[rural mouse]

With the cream and orange, could they be some kind of pyle?

Mixed with something that washes down the red....maybe....Pyle isn't a color I've investigated at all. How it is affected by anything else....hmmm....good question.

 

[Ponypoor]

They are something I grew up with. I was taught to shoot when I was old enough and taught to handle them responsibly. They are also stored safely. I live in Rural America. My part of Kentucky others refer to us as either rednecks or hillbillies. Sometimes in a derogatory term. It is ok, those comments roll right off the back. We are raised to hunt and fish. We work in the gardens with our parents and or grandparents to raise our own food. If it came to it, who needs a grocery store. Besides hunting, a shotgun comes in real handy when you have a huge possum that even the possum killing dog is afraid to mess with. Along with Coyotes, raccoons, snakes, black bears, bobcats.

I love the mountains, spring is spent in the swamp or on the hill mushroom hunting. I carry a pistol with me. Coyote's are the worst and we are overrun with them. I do not want to come across a pack by myself unarmed. I'm not afraid of the bears. They are here, one ran through my yard this spring. I have never ran up on a bear ever while out and about. Coyotes are another story. Oh and snakes, more importantly the copperheads and rattlesnakes.

Past few weeks the wolves have been roaming in the evenings here. I don’t worry about the horses, they won’t bother full grown horses, but a foal could be in danger.

And of course the chickens for sure. But with the chickens my main worry is with foxes and raccoons. And birds of prey.

Hmmm you know for all the predators here the one thing which terrifies me most, is pathogens. As we have found out they can take down a whole flock



Give me a bear any day.

 

[Marie2020]

Past few weeks the wolves have been roaming in the evenings here. I don’t worry about the horses, they won’t bother full grown horses, but a foal could be in danger.

And of course the chickens for sure. But with the chickens my main worry is with foxes and raccoons. And birds of prey.

Hmmm you know for all the predators here the one thing which terrifies me most, is pathogens. As we have found out they can take down a whole flock



Give me a bear any day.

 

[Marie2020]

Good night everyone. I couldn't sleep last night and I'm falling asleep on my nose here

 

[Ponypoor]

Don’t worry, all those wildlife are more afraid of me than wanting to attack me

The worst wildlife around here that have killed more people are mosquitoes!

 

[rural mouse]

With the cream and orange, could they be some kind of pyle?

Discussion about red pyle. Interestingly, one mentioned splash wheaten. @Ponypoor the splash wheaten term makes sense when applied to Mr P's coloring. It also explains where all the blue and black chicks have come from, but also the odd white. The white got the dominate white and the blue/black (and any splash birds) got the BBS gene. The dominate white is what is washing the red down to the light blonde (wheaten) color. Whether the red and the wheaten can be separated or not would require lots more hatching just to observe the assorted feather development......while typing this, I recall Pretty Boy Floyd and his golden tones...so it seems likely that the Dom white isn't always linked to the wheaten color.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/red-pyle-oegb-genetics-dont-breed-true.1283772/page-2