Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

They're blue...so is Clyde. 25% black, 50% blue, 25% splash. It's that Blue, Black, Splash thing.

50% frizzled, 100% satin, 50% chance of throwing silkied offspring (I think on last one)

Possibly have some silver leakage from Clyde's silver.

No chance of silkie feathers - those two are regular feathers, and I think that are Hoovers olive Eggers - that lay brown eggs….

I was told you need silkie gene in both parents to get silkie.

They sure are sweet little hens - they like a nice cuddle.

 

[Ponypoor]

They're blue...so is Clyde. 25% black, 50% blue, 25% splash. It's that Blue, Black, Splash thing.

50% frizzled, 100% satin, 50% chance of throwing silkied offspring (I think on last one)

Possibly have some silver leakage from Clyde's silver.

Wait what?! You think clyde is a blue??? I though he was black…

These chooks and their colours!

 

[rural mouse]

No chance of silkie feathers - those two are regular feathers, and I think that are Hoovers olive Eggers - that lay brown eggs….

I was told you need silkie gene in both parents to get silkie.

They sure are sweet little hens - they like a nice cuddle.

The offspring would have a chance of throwing silkied feathers...depending upon other parent too.

 

[rural mouse]

Wait what?! You think clyde is a blue??? I though he was black…

These chooks and their colours!

I'm not mentally awake yet. He is black. 50% black, 50% blue, 0% splash.

 

[Ponypoor]

I'm not mentally awake yet. He is black. 50% black, 50% blue, 0% splash.

Now to throw a spanner in the mix, those blue hens are motttled with some white spots.

I wonder if they will get more white when they moult?

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

They're blue...so is Clyde. 25% black, 50% blue, 25% splash. It's that Blue, Black, Splash thing.

50% frizzled, 100% satin, 50% chance of throwing silkied offspring (I think on last one)

Possibly have some silver leakage from Clyde's silver.

You are right on the frizzled part. All silkie crosses are going to be normal feathered though.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

Clyde joined his sweeties in a dirt pile yesterday

The dirt was flying!
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He adores Patches and Silver Bord and they only have eyes for him. It’s so sweet.

Wonder what chicks from them would look like??? Brown eggs for sure, topknots…. They would be grey - likely look like their mamas.

Anywhoooo not hatching eggs this year, not even for my niece’s school. Seems the school board has banned hatching eggs in the Kindergarten classes. Something about health risk - stupid people make me want to scream. There has never been one issue with health ever from having chicks and pets in a classroom.

When I was in school we had gerbils, hamsters, Guinea pigs, hatched ducklings and geese. Sometimes the teachers would bring their dogs in. Sheesh! Never ever had any issues with anything, not even allergies.

Kids these days are not exposed to enough dirt I say! When I was growing u we spent summer days out on the floating raft which the Gulls roosted on at night. First ones out there each morning had to clean off the raft deck of all that Gull poop.

Two of us would go opposite corners and start rocking the raft and get the corners under the water to slosh the water up onto the raft. It was a huge raft about 15’x15’ wooden deck welded steel frame floated with the use of 50gallon steel drums. It took some work to get it cleaned off. We would start sliding around on the wet wood and fall into the water full of Gull poop, inevitably swallowing some - ewww!

But we were never sick, and I guess all that poop cleaning is why I have no issues with dealing with horse and chicken poop now.

Yep those were the days! Then we would all lay out on that raft all day in the sun like seals, when we got hot we rolled into the water. Sometimes a stray Gull would join us hahaha. All is girls laying in the sun with the odd Gull just relaxing the summer away like seals on a beach.

Oh and best thing! Our parents couldn’t get to us unless they swam out which never did! Heaven!

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Come join us Hooman!

Oh Clyde, those are some lovely laidies you have.

Alright, what is it with those little silkie lads having a thing for big blue girls?

Branch, the bowling ball cochins were his and his alone. If Davy or Barbosa manage to run out first thing they do is head straight to the cochins. It sure makes catching them easy as I just pluck them off the top of them. Honestly I would just throw the cochins in with the silkies except they cannot be trusted not to eat a egg. They are better about it this year, I've only lost a handful to them so far this year. A handful is still too many to trust them in the silkie pen.

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh Clyde, those are some lovely laidies you have.

Alright, what is it with those little silkie lads having a thing for big blue girls?

Branch, the bowling ball cochins were his and his alone. If Davy or Barbosa manage to run out first thing they do is head straight to the cochins. It sure makes catching them easy as I just pluck them off the top of them. Honestly I would just throw the cochins in with the silkies except they cannot be trusted not to eat a egg. They are better about it this year, I've only lost a handful to them so far this year. A handful is still too many to trust them in the silkie pen.

What a couple of bratty hens! I cannot fathom why they would start that. Heavens knows I have enough brittle eggs here and soft ones, that it’s a feeding frenzy with those.

Yet they never touch normal eggs, even ones that were ‘accidental’ deposited on the barn floor.

 

[RebeccaBoyd]

What a couple of bratty hens! I cannot fathom why they would start that. Heavens knows I have enough brittle eggs here and soft ones, that it’s a feeding frenzy with those.

Yet they never touch normal eggs, even ones that were ‘accidental’ deposited on the barn floor.

They started it their first winter with me. Temps plummeted and I did not get to a egg in time and it froze and broke. Eating that one egg was all it took and they have been horrible ever since. Thankfully none of my other hens have picked this habit up.

I have to wonder though if it was something they occasionally did with their previous owner. Remember these girls were kept in a coop that while it was long it was not tall. They never even learned to roost properly.

My bowling ball hens are beautiful. I cannot judge all cochins based on these. I will be hard pressed to be convinced to get some more after these are gone.

 

[knoturavggrl]

Those Silkies can't resist a dogpile, eh?!

Ha! No they really can’t!