Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Chicks arrive Monday! Only 6 days left to wait! I'm ridiculously excited. I have pretty much everything purchased, and only have a few more things to check off the list. I'll get feed and some electrolytes and clean out the horse trough they'll go in this weekend. That's it for the last preparations! For anyone who missed the list of what is coming, here it is:

• 1 Chocolate Orpington cockerel
• 2 Chocolate Orpington pullets
• 2 Barnevelder pullets
• 2 Easter Egger pullets
• 1 Blue Australorp pullet
• 1 Buff Orpington pullet
• 1 Blue Laced Red Wyandotte pullet
• One Extra of a breed in the order

I went for some more interesting/uncommon breeds and colors this year, including 2 I've never had before, Barnevelders, and Wyandottes. I'm planning to hatch Chocolate Orpingtons next year. Orps have always been my favorite, and the Chocolates are gorgeous. Mt Healthy's Chocolate Orpington Roosters are sooo handsome.
https://mthealthy.com/birds/chocolate-orpington

I am eager to see your new babies also!

 

[Sylvester017]

No clue. Blue has pinky wattles starting so may be a boy, but Kasumi did as a chick and she was just a very strong-hormoned girl.
Here's some Periwinkle pics for your perusal...
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TY! Feathered legs, 5 toes, bearded, crested ~ I'm having fun guessing...forming some beautiful attributes ~ Satin Silkie maybe?

 

[SimpleJenn]

TY! Feathered legs, 5 toes, bearded, crested ~ I'm having fun guessing...forming some beautiful attributes ~ Satin Silkie maybe?

Satin silkie and cream legbar is as much as I know of the mix. Supposed to be blue eggs too

 

[featherhead007]

Five toes on a chicken, really seems weird to me. What’s the extra toe for?

 

[featherhead007]

Mugs Monday.
Felicitas.
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Agathae.
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You can show off Agathae all you want, she’s an incredible looking lady.

 

[rural mouse]

Calypso has decided that a white, possibly diamond, tiara is the perfect accessory to her green gown.
I originally thought these were feather sheaths that she hadn’t managed to get off after her molt. But no, they are teeny white speckled feathers.

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That's leakage! Hmmmm.....wonder where that came from?

 

[Sylvester017]

Five toes on a chicken, really seems weird to me. What’s the extra toe for?

There are 2-headed snakes and 2-headed cattle. Once a furry 5-toed chicken hatched mankind must've decided to propagate the anomaly/deformity?

 

[Sylvester017]

Chicks arrive Monday! Only 6 days left to wait! I'm ridiculously excited. I have pretty much everything purchased, and only have a few more things to check off the list. I'll get feed and some electrolytes and clean out the horse trough they'll go in this weekend. That's it for the last preparations! For anyone who missed the list of what is coming, here it is:

• 1 Chocolate Orpington cockerel
• 2 Chocolate Orpington pullets
• 2 Barnevelder pullets
• 2 Easter Egger pullets
• 1 Blue Australorp pullet
• 1 Buff Orpington pullet
• 1 Blue Laced Red Wyandotte pullet
• One Extra of a breed in the order

I went for some more interesting/uncommon breeds and colors this year, including 2 I've never had before, Barnevelders, and Wyandottes. I'm planning to hatch Chocolate Orpingtons next year. Orps have always been my favorite, and the Chocolates are gorgeous. Mt Healthy's Chocolate Orpington Roosters are sooo handsome.
https://mthealthy.com/birds/chocolate-orpington

Are you sure you're getting your full order? The link to Mt Healthy shows sold out?

 

[SimpleJenn]

Five toes on a chicken, really seems weird to me. What’s the extra toe for?

Crimes

 

[Sylvester017]

That's leakage! Hmmmm.....wonder where that came from?

Some ancestral history throwback?