Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Grandma The Chicken]

Caturday Saturday
Get out from under the bed!

 

[Ponypoor]

Thank you

All my animals remember me when I got back home from working all winter

 

[Ponypoor]

I have 6 inches of fine POWDER (the tiny flakes that take awhile to accumulate)....and the main road by the snow plow depot hadn't been plowed when I left for work. Coop is open, but unless the sun comes out, I doubt they'll want out.

Sure hope the wind doesn’t pick up there, that powder blows around like crazy!

My chooks looked out, gave me a grim look and went back to tearing up the horse stalls

 

[Ponypoor]

Your Clyde video just about confirms my suspicions that all 6 of my silkies are pullets. Clyde is 4 weeks older then my group but that does not matter at this point. My crew is what, 7 months old now? I have a video I took last week that I just got around to uploading. Watch the video with Clyde, focus on the head and hackles. Clydes hackle feathers are everywhere, scraggly for a better word no offense to him.

Watch this video now and look really close to my group. Every single one of them is neat as a pin and they all just look so feminine. I have 6 pullets here I tell you.

Oh you lucky lucky lady! I would agree, all pullets!

Well if one of the dumplings is a boy I am sneaking the booger across the border to you! They are already eating out of my hand (actually trying to chuck down a finger hahaha), and love mealworms. You like white chooks right???

 

[Ponypoor]

Beautiful

I don’t have the heart to tell her I love the palm tree

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Oh you lucky lucky lady! I would agree, all pullets!

Well if one of the dumplings is a boy I am sneaking the booger across the border to you! They are already eating out of my hand (actually trying to chuck down a finger hahaha), and love mealworms. You like white chooks right???

Yes I am very open to white. I still honestly cannot believe that I potentially have a group of all pullets. From eggs hatched from my own flock. Now if you were to tell me I hatched a clutch of all cockerels, yes, I would believe that. I have pretty much done that several times.

 

[Sylvester017]

That is correct.

Green is a blue egg with the brown "paint sprayer".

What I love about green or brown "sprayed" eggs is that there are really only 2 egg shell colors ~ white or blue in chickens. All other color variations in egg colors is due to the amount of brown pigment a hen may have to coat the white or blue outside shell before she lays it.

If a blue egg shell is tinted w/ brown pigment when the chicken is ready to lay it comes out in various shades of green depending on how much brown pigment is deposited on the blue shell ~ but crack open that green egg & we'll see the inside if the shell is still blue!

If a white egg shell is tinted w/brown pigment when the hen is ready to lay it comes out in various shades from cream to chocolate depending on how much brown pigment is deposited on the white shell ~ but crack that cream, pink, speckled, brown, or chocolate egg & we will see the inside of the shell is still white!

Hence, there are only two basic chicken egg shell colors ~ white or blue ~ all other egg color variations are created by the brown pigment a hen deposits on the outside of a white or blue shell. Some brown pigments are so unique as to have almost reddish-brown maroon shades. Speckled eggs are caused by uneven distribution of brown pigment on an egg shell. Welsummers are known for their very speckled brown eggs & some Langshans have been reported to have purpley-plum eggs (though very rare).

Really fun reading!

https://www.thehenhousecollection.com/blog/chicken-egg-colors-guide/

 

[RoyalChick]

How did you do the hyperlinks? Did you use Word?

Right here on BYC.

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

Caturday Saturday
A funny video from a friends house 4 days ago.

 

[Desertvalleychickens]

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