Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Caturday

Éowyn and her Polish Posse

 

[BY Bob]

Here is Red. He’s a RIR x Polish, and that’s his comb.
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In this photo you can see all/most of my free rangers. I have added and removed some since then.
There are six roosters, and if you zoom in you should be able to see their combs pretty well, I hope.
Two are gone now (it was supposed to be three, but one escaped) but I can’t point out which two are gone. They are both all black though. All of them except the Wyandottes are part Polish. And, of course, there is the pure Polish.
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That is a crown comb if I ever saw one. Just awesome!

 

[BY Bob]

Wonder what type of comb I would get?! And I bet they would fly everywhere - more escape artists hahaha! The only thing preventing me is the risk of getting cockerels

They would fly big time. Perhaps even take off vertically like Polish can do. I might want some of these if you created some.

They sound like my kind of chicken.

 

[BY Bob]

Something eggciting I realized a few minutes ago… my oldest chicken is four years old!
Today is Splotch’s hatchday! And Pastel’s… so hopefully he is having a good day in chook heaven.

Happy hatchday Splotch! I am so thrilled to have officially had chickens for four years. These past four years have been amazing because of you and your flock. You Pastel, Bolt, BBQ, and Basil started my chook obsession. I started with five chickens, and now I have 40. That never would’ve happened if you didn’t hatch Splotch. And while Pastel, Basil, and BBQ have moved on to the next life, you and Bolt carry on as my two oldest ladies, and you two are the best girls out of all my chickens. Happy hatchday pretty Splotch. I’ll give you a bunch of strawberries and blueberries with your dinner tonight. And I am putting a hat on you. You can’t make me not put one on you.

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Happy hatchday!

 

[BY Bob]

Time for some appreciation
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Nosy Posy
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His silly little comb
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I hope he's having a good time in the "silkie fun pen" at his new home
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The legend himself
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Marvelous Mr Marble
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Please sire some children good sir, I wish to own a Marbledottir

The current ruler, Riddick (pitch black)
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Jaunty crest and a heavy metal crow.

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Owl and BlackJack. We believe we have chosen one of the Owl trio to keep, just waiting to see who the others like best.
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Megamind and the cute splash polkie on the right. He has a beard!
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Brainiac, she has a beard too! Very exciting having bearded polish

Such gorgeous chickens.

 

[RoyalChick]

Sexing does have a margin of error with some breeds having a greater margin than others.

Sigh. Yes I know.
I considered many probabilities in this adventure. But I focused on the probability that Tassels would accept or murder them when I introduced them at 6 days, and the probability that they would die from Marek’s before adulthood because I did not leave it long enough for the vaccine to take.
I did not focus on the probability that the hatchery sexing would be wrong.
Sigh.

 

[knoturavggrl]

I think @knoturavggrl has had suspects hasnt she? Or am I mixing up my spotty chooks?

I haven’t had many with big combs and wattles other than my Azure and those arrived here as POL.

Let’s just go with girl for now.

I did not have speckled suspects; I had Jubilee orps. I still think the chick @RoyalChick is wondering about is a girl at this point. I do see some pink in the comb and a hint of wattles, but with breeds that have the larger combs, the girls do get that earlier on, and you have to wait a little longer to be sure.

The breed that threw me was BCM. I had two from the chicks I got back then, and they both popped pink combs very early, but one just kept getting larger and larger, and the other just stayed where it was until they got older.

I still think there is reason to hope

 

[knoturavggrl]

Caturday

Éowyn and her Polish Posse
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Eowyn looks so proud of her "kittens"

 

[BY Bob]

Sigh. Yes I know.
I considered many probabilities in this adventure. But I focused on the probability that Tassels would accept or murder them when I introduced them at 6 days, and the probability that they would die from Marek’s before adulthood because I did not leave it long enough for the vaccine to take.
I did not focus on the probability that the hatchery sexing would be wrong.
Sigh.

 

[BY Bob]

Eowyn looks so proud of her "kittens"

They look for each other now and will spend their time in the yard together. It is wonderful to see.