Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

I like it, so be it - hence forth Sir Shirley shall now be known as Sir Surely.

Surely I can find him a lovely new home with a nice flock of his own…..

A new owner may even find his new name regal too!

 

[featherhead007]

I wrote to the farm asking if they would update me on princess but I haven't got a reply yet. Hopefully next week

Bless your heart

 

[featherhead007]

I think Alex meant sunflower seeds

No I said safflower SAFFLOWER.

 

[featherhead007]

I don't need anything deleted. I just want to maintain a chicken focus.

“Chicken focus”? I don’t let my chickens anywhere near my camera equipment. (Just saying)

 

[featherhead007]

I think he said she had a broken toe at one time & limps on that foot?

Yep

 

[featherhead007]

He is full of himself that’s for sure!

He must compensate for his size.

 

[featherhead007]

We witnessed someone's popup canopy blow across 8 lanes of freeway! Our gusts get anywhere from 65 to 100 mph here ~ what a mess! We bury all our popup frame legs in the ground so we lose only the covers:

Canopy over the chicken sandbox 2016
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After a Santa Ana Wind storm ~ the frame is sturdy buried in-ground but the covers get thrashed! 2017
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A new cover over the frame using ordinary tarp:
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Funny thing, they don’t sell replacements for damaged covers?

 

[SimpleJenn]

Yeti and Slowpoke are my favorites so far GORGEOUS chickies!

Well if you ever convince your dad you need a roo, perhaps we can arrange Slowpoke moving in with you. Or...on the off chance Yeti is a boy...

My favorites are Slowpoke (because I love a good underdog-wins-out back story) and Navy who is very pretty, and Squatch (because I have a thing for big black fluffy chickens).
Then there is Cemani with those eyes
So many to pick from!

I know! I was very lucky with these chicks, they're all so lovely. And Pokes...dang Pokes got a glow up!!!

Slow poke is actually looking lavender....

I thought about calling him Wisteria but he already responds to Slowpoke

Wow! They sure have grown up havent they? You have a beautiful flock in the making there

Thank you!!!

Hi Periwinkle!
They've always been pretty chicks but they are turning into gorgeous juvenilesalmost adults.

Thanks! And yes, I have told Periwinkle to "pose for Sylvester!"

Is lavender also called a self-blue? or does self-blue mean that two lavender parents will always breed true? Lavender & self-blue are terms I wasn't aware of when we started w/backyard birds 14 yrs ago. Then terms like pearl, mille fleur, porcelain, exchequer, etc, were new terms to me too.

I think so. It isn't the same as Blue black splash, but it does do a wash type dilution. It affects red colors also. That's where the Isabella color comes from.

Good to know!
Some cutie patootie little Posy sunbathing


Hmm???
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The chicks were very concerned, and after Goldiebird got a peck for getting too close, they all hid in their "nap coop" that they use during the day for a bit. Yeti came out to look at her and got another peck, and then the 5 minutes were up so I ushered Buffy back to her own space and closed them back off. Marble did not care to see the chicks today.

 

[SimpleJenn]

I'm not actually in a big rush to rehome Slowpoke, but I will NOT be eating him if we can help it.
Then vs now...he's come so far from needing to be helped out of his egg, helped to eat and drink, and now he's such a big boy!






I had a feeling he was closer to lavender than blue, but wasn't sure.

 

[rural mouse]

So 2 Isabella parents breed true the way 2 lavenders do? So fascinating all these gene variants/mutations

They're supposed to. Lavender (unlike blue) will hide, so if 1 parent is lavender and the other isn't, the black (or red I think) that's ordinarily washed by the lavender pops instead. However, that offspring can throw lavender babies when bred with a lavender bird. They will also throw more "split to lavender", hiding it again. 2 splits breeding can also throw lavender, more splits and some that don't carry the lavender, making it difficult to tell which are which.