Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

Beautiful picture here! Calendar or POW worthy!View attachment 4209312

I thought so too!

 

[Sylvester017]

Personality doesn’t make a mop into a vacuum cleaner! But a mop with personality is a good mop!
Silkies are not real chickens.

Once you have 'em they become an addiction over other breeds. We only wanted a couple 14 yrs ago & now we've cycled thru w/ 9 of them over the yrs. Other standard breeds are ok for other reasons... but Silkies who have been APA registered since 1874 have it all... gentle temperament around families, good flockmates, a large variety of colors & patterns to choose from, can't fly over a high fence to escape, decent egg size for a large bantam, busy foragers, excellent broodies who very often do co-op broody duties, the males have been known to feed the broody hen on the nest & like most roosters will do babysitting, & fluffy Silkies are especially hardy in our climate zone. Standard breeds huff & puff in our heatwaves while the fluffy Silkies continue foraging all in stride... been great at ducking predators too which was a surprising bonus to us

The first two Silkies that started it all ~ 2011

 

[Sylvester017]

Mugs Monday

Dorothy
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It’s a horse of course! Truly looking for pears the chooks are eating off the ground
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Dorothy has beautiful feathers

That is a classic animal pic of Truly... you can almost see any pet's begging in that face of hers teehee!

 

[Sylvester017]

Buckeye yellows
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Trivia: The shading on the front shanks & toes on yellow chick legs is how to know they are females. On Dominique chicks if one can't identify chick sex by the white spot on the head then the dark shading on the front chick legs will be female ~ as adult females the shading disappears. The male Dom chicks don't ever have the dark shading on their legs.

Our Dominique chicks also had pretty blue eyes until 4 months old

(The American Dominique: a Treatise for the Fancier by Mark A. Fields) out of print

 

[Ponypoor]

They grow so fast!

Pasty butt? Our 8-yr-old Dana was a pasty butt runt chick but today she has outlived her 2 Dominique sisters. Pasty butt doesn't worry me so much as other chick issues but it does need care.

Dana ~ homecoming 2017 ~ only needed to clean her tush once when we brought the chicks home & she was fine after that.
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They all seem fine today, and that lightest one can RUN!

 

[Ponypoor]

Dorothy has beautiful feathers

That is a classic animal pic of Truly... you can almost see any pet's begging in that face of hers teehee!

She went and hauled a bunch off the other tree - they aren’t as ripe yet she wanted the sweet ones.

The chooks finally had to give up on the fallen ones the yellowjackets were just crazy!

 

[Ponypoor]

Once you have 'em they become an addiction over other breeds. We only wanted a couple 14 yrs ago & now we've cycled thru w/ 9 of them over the yrs. Other standard breeds are ok for other reasons... but Silkies who have been APA registered since 1874 have it all... gentle temperament around families, good flockmates, a large variety of colors & patterns to choose from, can't fly over a high fence to escape, decent egg size for a large bantam, busy foragers, excellent broodies who very often do co-op broody duties, the males have been known to feed the broody hen on the nest & like most roosters will do babysitting, & fluffy Silkies are especially hardy in our climate zone. Standard breeds huff & puff in our heatwaves while the fluffy Silkies continue foraging all in stride... been great at ducking predators too which was a surprising bonus to us

The first two Silkies that started it all ~ 2011
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Clyde came in for a visit when I had Whiskers and the babies out for a bit. Whiskers was very upset though, so Clyde got the boot from me. He was most interested though, he has been good with Georgie and Hollys babies.

 

[Ponypoor]

Dorothy has beautiful feathers

That is a classic animal pic of Truly... you can almost see any pet's begging in that face of hers teehee!

Penelope is Dorothy’s mom, the only one I hatched from her and it was a pullet

I have debated hatching something from Dorothy and Mr P. Too risk of cockerels

 

[Ponypoor]

I would say that lightest one will be white. The orangey one who knows. And Chippy-choo I guess will be black.

Just kidding hahahaha

 

[Sylvester017]

I wonder why the second photo doesn’t show? Does anyone else see it?

Both photos posted! Adorable