Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[bgmathteach]

My update is a sad one. The Mamasita from next door, with the two babies, well both babies have died and she has now been hanging around with my other chooks. Nacho decided to sleep in the coop with the other chooks. Mamasita is perched just outside, being close to the other birds. For the life of me, I will never understand chicken behavior.
The one fact that I do understand, is that if you give lots of love to your pets, that love returns back to you.

Oh, no! What happened to the 2 little chooks?

The heart is because she loves you - or at least knows you are a source of food and safety. I hope you are able to keep Nacho and her littles safe - and Mamasita maybe can join your flock and be safe and well cared for, too????

 

[Marie2020]

Mr LC, Tippy (the brat), Butterscotch (another brat) and Whiskers were all over on my neighbour’s - I had to sneak over there and chase them back. My neighbours are likley busting a gut laughing at me.

I just knew something would kick off. Ii so wish we had a video.
@Sylvester017 I think we should rename Kelly How about Lucy

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Breeding: One black parent & one splash parent will hatch 100% blue chicks ~ doesn't matter which color is the roo or the hen as long as one is black & one is splash. That's a valuable little baby if it's a splash.

Ok so there are 2 possibilities in play here on "Splashy".

#1, she is the result of Poppet and Davy and is actually splash. That also means Poppet is a blue partridge. It could be possible as Poppet was snapping out of her broody spell around the last day or so I collected eggs. I could have had one from her.

#2, she is not splash and some random color. I know Davy and Barbosa are the result of a BBS pen. Poppets daughters are sired by Branch who was black but threw partridge. I do not know what Poppet's parents were. I do know that when I hatched Branch I did end up with a white chick that pipped into the yolk sac and died in the shell. That pen also produced I think 4 more solid whites. I think they are referred to as dominate whites. There really is a lot of colors that come into play with this pen.

What I do know is Splashy stays to be one of my grow outs. I'm praying she is a pullet, and if she is a Poppet daughter my odds are good she is. So far Poppet is a 100% pullet producer. I figure in a month or so we will have a better idea of her color. I do see in person yellow tones on her down coloring. She also has pale grey almost white mixed in. I cannot call her solid white though, there is color to her.

I also said I want pullets, I do not need more boys. If Splashy is a splash I will be hard pressed to let it go if it is a cockerel. The whole goal behind a blue pullet or two was hopes of splash chicks next year. Good grief I could be in trouble here. I think I need to start saving for another kennel for a blue and splash breeding pen.

I am going to be holding back and raising 8 from this group. 1 blue, the 2 blue partridge and Splashy. I talked to Betty this evening and for 2 months I will raise 2 blue and 2 black for her. She also said if any of the ones I list do not sell she will take them as well but she at least wants 4 fuzzy britches as she calls silkies.

I also need a good name for Splashy. I know I am calling her Splashy or Splish Splash but she deserves something better. I may end up calling her either Elizabeth, Carina, Angelica or Calypso as they tie into the Pirates of the Caribbean theme.

 

[Marie2020]

My update is a sad one. The Mamasita from next door, with the two babies, well both babies have died and she has now been hanging around with my other chooks. Nacho decided to sleep in the coop with the other chooks. Mamasita is perched just outside, being close to the other birds. For the life of me, I will never understand chicken behavior.
The one fact that I do understand, is that if you give lots of love to your pets, that love returns back to you.

Poor little ones
Give lot's of love and treats to Mamasita

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Seeing as how a little group of heathens are trying to dust bathe in their food, I am going to head out at 2 in the morning to get them sawdust.

Brats.

 

[rural mouse]

Just as well - I don’t need to be trying to get chicks across the border haha!

My neighbour’s Polish and Hmong are looking very attractive right now…..

A couple of her Polish and a couple of Hmong….. too bad I can’t tell if pullets or not.

A young polish roo might be just the thing to keep the ladies from picking Mr P....and be more laid back...

 

[rural mouse]

My update is a sad one. The Mamasita from next door, with the two babies, well both babies have died and she has now been hanging around with my other chooks. Nacho decided to sleep in the coop with the other chooks. Mamasita is perched just outside, being close to the other birds. For the life of me, I will never understand chicken behavior.
The one fact that I do understand, is that if you give lots of love to your pets, that love returns back to you.

 

[rural mouse]

Ok so there are 2 possibilities in play here on "Splashy".

#1, she is the result of Poppet and Davy and is actually splash. That also means Poppet is a blue partridge. It could be possible as Poppet was snapping out of her broody spell around the last day or so I collected eggs. I could have had one from her.

#2, she is not splash and some random color. I know Davy and Barbosa are the result of a BBS pen. Poppets daughters are sired by Branch who was black but threw partridge. I do not know what Poppet's parents were. I do know that when I hatched Branch I did end up with a white chick that pipped into the yolk sac and died in the shell. That pen also produced I think 4 more solid whites. I think they are referred to as dominate whites. There really is a lot of colors that come into play with this pen.

What I do know is Splashy stays to be one of my grow outs. I'm praying she is a pullet, and if she is a Poppet daughter my odds are good she is. So far Poppet is a 100% pullet producer. I figure in a month or so we will have a better idea of her color. I do see in person yellow tones on her down coloring. She also has pale grey almost white mixed in. I cannot call her solid white though, there is color to her.

I also said I want pullets, I do not need more boys. If Splashy is a splash I will be hard pressed to let it go if it is a cockerel. The whole goal behind a blue pullet or two was hopes of splash chicks next year. Good grief I could be in trouble here. I think I need to start saving for another kennel for a blue and splash breeding pen.

I am going to be holding back and raising 8 from this group. 1 blue, the 2 blue partridge and Splashy. I talked to Betty this evening and for 2 months I will raise 2 blue and 2 black for her. She also said if any of the ones I list do not sell she will take them as well but she at least wants 4 fuzzy britches as she calls silkies.

I also need a good name for Splashy. I know I am calling her Splashy or Splish Splash but she deserves something better. I may end up calling her either Elizabeth, Carina, Angelica or Calypso as they tie into the Pirates of the Caribbean theme.

With that in mind, one of the partridge chicks should be Sparrow (and could be either gender).

My vote goes to Calypso for splash chick.

Tortuga would be another good name for a partridge.

 

[RoyalChick]

Ok so there are 2 possibilities in play here on "Splashy".

#1, she is the result of Poppet and Davy and is actually splash. That also means Poppet is a blue partridge. It could be possible as Poppet was snapping out of her broody spell around the last day or so I collected eggs. I could have had one from her.

#2, she is not splash and some random color. I know Davy and Barbosa are the result of a BBS pen. Poppets daughters are sired by Branch who was black but threw partridge. I do not know what Poppet's parents were. I do know that when I hatched Branch I did end up with a white chick that pipped into the yolk sac and died in the shell. That pen also produced I think 4 more solid whites. I think they are referred to as dominate whites. There really is a lot of colors that come into play with this pen.

What I do know is Splashy stays to be one of my grow outs. I'm praying she is a pullet, and if she is a Poppet daughter my odds are good she is. So far Poppet is a 100% pullet producer. I figure in a month or so we will have a better idea of her color. I do see in person yellow tones on her down coloring. She also has pale grey almost white mixed in. I cannot call her solid white though, there is color to her.

I also said I want pullets, I do not need more boys. If Splashy is a splash I will be hard pressed to let it go if it is a cockerel. The whole goal behind a blue pullet or two was hopes of splash chicks next year. Good grief I could be in trouble here. I think I need to start saving for another kennel for a blue and splash breeding pen.

I am going to be holding back and raising 8 from this group. 1 blue, the 2 blue partridge and Splashy. I talked to Betty this evening and for 2 months I will raise 2 blue and 2 black for her. She also said if any of the ones I list do not sell she will take them as well but she at least wants 4 fuzzy britches as she calls silkies.

I also need a good name for Splashy. I know I am calling her Splashy or Splish Splash but she deserves something better. I may end up calling her either Elizabeth, Carina, Angelica or Calypso as they tie into the Pirates of the Caribbean theme.

I love fuzzy britches

My Calypso says that she approves of naming a beautiful chicken Calypso.

 

[Sally PB]

The only supplement I give is a calcium and Vit D one. It goes on their water and I give it twice a week in the winter, once a week now it’s summer. They get enough sunlight to make Vit D now.

I have thin egg shells from a few of my ladies. They have oyster shell, but prefer egg shells. I'm running out of egg shells!

@Ponypoor, I'm thinking of ordering the calcium/vit D supplement (on Amazon... not a fan of Amazon...). My understanding is 1/2 teaspoon per liter of water, once a week, per the label, if I'm reading the info correctly.