Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Thank you! We'll see more as they age. I didn't buy those eggs to get all purebreds, the hope was for some cochins or cochin mixes, which I'm sure a couple of the light brown eggs are.
On the other side, now the purebreds are hatching! A marans just popped out, and it looks like most of the eggs have pipped overnight.
I opened the brooder to change the water, and Squatch jumped out and ran to the incubator. She wants those babies haha!
Husband says her name should be Sassysquatch since she's such a personality.
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The one with the gold head came from a brown egg. Hopefully golden laced cochin!!!
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Sorry for the dim light, I don't want to accidentally wake my daughter.
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The two chicks from white eggs have fluffed up to be black with white bellies. Their combs look to be pink.

Your big girls are either going to be BROODY or are roos with the instinct to take care of orphaned babies. The gold faced baby looks like has a brown lozenge on the head....more what a brown leghorn should have...but it could easily be the light on the incubator.

Something to keep in mind over the next few weeks of what's the parentage mix?: leg color is much less precise/understood compared to feather color/pattern.

Edit: Black with white bellies usually feathers out all black...maybe with some color leakage

 

[Sally PB]

I love chick hatching/having season! I don't think I'll be getting any this year, so I am living this vicariously through everyone else's hatches/brooding.

 

[rural mouse]

I love chick hatching/having season! I don't think I'll be getting any this year, so I am living this vicariously through everyone else's hatches/brooding.

It's too early here (feed stores can get chicks shipped, but weather can mess that up too). I'm hoping for broody babies. But not until april/may when the wild birds are also hatching. Meanwhile

 

[SimpleJenn]

Your big girls are either going to be BROODY or are roos with the instinct to take care of orphaned babies. The gold faced baby looks like has a brown lozenge on the head....more what a brown leghorn should have...but it could easily be the light on the incubator.

Something to keep in mind over the next few weeks of what's the parentage mix?: leg color is much less precise/understood compared to feather color/pattern.

Edit: Black with white bellies usually feathers out all black...maybe with some color leakage

Either are acceptable. I have rooster keeping plans, but as always, those will change depending on who gets along, treats the ladies well, and doesn't go after my kid. She got wellies for Christmas specifically to help with chicken chores. <3
And we all know my weakness for black and grey chickens!

 

[SimpleJenn]

Hopefully if they are leghorn they don't have too big of combs. We have very wet winters here so I would worry about frostbite.

 

[rural mouse]

Hopefully if they are leghorn they don't have too big of combs. We have very wet winters here so I would worry about frostbite.

We get dry winters (compared to yours) and Nellie gets tips bitten occasionally. Whiskey got hit hard enough it dubbed his crown a couple of years ago (no leghorn in him). Tuff, Nellie's grandson has some bitten tips this year, too. Looks like tips will be kept this year, thankfully. Only thing you can do if it happens is practice hands off and plenty of food and water access in wind free areas.

 

[BY Bob]

Agreed!

The closest DH got was sitting up all night in 2012 w/ me when our Mini wheezed at death's door & we rushed her to the vet the moment their office opened in the morning. A Baytril injection & metcam & she was fine to our relief.

Of all our hens she had the most health issues w/ her last issue a bleeding ovarian tumor stuck to a rubbery egg where our vet sadly put her down at 6-1/2 Our vet had chickens as a boy so he was just as sad as we were.
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[BY Bob]

That’s a heavy pot! My mother had one of those for spaghetti cooking

They are super heavy but great pots to cook in.

Tax

 

[BY Bob]

I use pheromone bait in my traps, it works pretty well!View attachment 4059679

I have never heard of this before but then I use this for my mouse control.

 

[BY Bob]

Surgery went well, I'll be going home in like a half-hour forty five minutes range.
I can breathe with my whole throat, it's amazing. I've never been able to before, my tonsils have always been at least double average size.

I wonder if I'll have any new pips and hatches today!

Simply wonderful news.