Share your RUMPLESS chickens!

[ochochicas]

He is cute! You can definitely see the barring in his feather from mom. The rumpless gene is dominant, so if he inherited it from one of his parents, the parent would have been rumpless as well. It looks like you might have a gene mutation that caused him to not have a tail. It is rare, but it does happen. It would be interesting to see if he passes it on to his offspring. Are you planning to breed him?

 

[Mahen100]

Thanks, Chicas. I saw the parent stock where I got the eggs....one was reported to be a "real" and pure Americauna roo, and there was one other roo, but I don't know what it was. The small flock free ranged, and the hens of different breeds ranged and shared a henhouse together. I don't believe either of them were rumples. He is cute, and getting really pretty bright red patches on each wingbow, and I wish I could hold onto him long enough to breed him. Unfortunately, I live in a "no roo" zoned community. He and the sibling with a tail are promised to someone for rehoming...as soon as they begin to crow. I will try to get a picture as he develops until I have to rehome him.

 

[JessicaAnn]

My rumpless Easter Eggers. Both are almost 4 mo old pullets.

 

[Triplecross]

I aquired a rumpless rooster and bred him to my Easter Eggers. I incubated 4 eggs and they were all pullets! At first I was happy but now I see these new girls are very hard to breed because of their rumpless-ness. I have 3 roosters with them but their eggs are always infertile.
I read online that the hens are hard to breed because of their rump angle.
Has anyone had this problem?

 

[ochochicas]

Yes, my Araucana eggs are often infertile. It helps to trim the feathers around the vent so the rooster has an easier job to do. It also could be a rooster problem. My old rooster didn't have any issues fertilizing the hens, but the new one does.

 

[Pork Pie]

I aquired a rumpless rooster and bred him to my Easter Eggers. I incubated 4 eggs and they were all pullets! At first I was happy but now I see these new girls are very hard to breed because of their rumpless-ness. I have 3 roosters with them but their eggs are always infertile.
I read online that the hens are hard to breed because of their rump angle.
Has anyone had this problem?

I too have had that problem. I trimmed her feathers yesterday in the hope of seeing some improvement, but she's decided to go broody so I will not know if the trimming has any effect for at least a couple of weeks

Oh, and in the spirit of the thread, here's my little girl

 

[Kev]

I aquired a rumpless rooster and bred him to my Easter Eggers. I incubated 4 eggs and they were all pullets! At first I was happy but now I see these new girls are very hard to breed because of their rumpless-ness. I have 3 roosters with them but their eggs are always infertile.
I read online that the hens are hard to breed because of their rump angle.
Has anyone had this problem?

Don't have rumpless anymore but one thing I noticed as for breeding- if the hen has long and/or profuse feathers over the vent(where the tail would have been), that can prevent direct cloacal contact. Those feathers can get squished directly on the vent from the pressure of rooster's body on top of her. Neither the hen or roo are able to move those feathers out of the way.

if I really wanted chicks from a hen, those feathers above the vent would have been cut away. Looks horrible but hey, babies....

Some roosters seemed to need trims too, if they had trouble moving the feathers around their vent.. in their case the feathers on the sides and below the vent were trimmed, not the top/"tail" area.

There seemed to be some roosters that simply have it all figured out and are able to breed 'any hen'. I wondered if they had learned how to deal with the feather issue or it also depended on the degree of rumplessness.. some birds looked much shorter backed than others- could feel varying spine length as if the rumpless gene also removes some of the spine past the tail... one particularly short backed roo looked like someone had chopped off whole of his back end.. he still managed to breed but he had to do contortions to get the vents to meet up even on normal tailed birds.

I had some bred with naked necks. naked neck rumpless had FAR less fertility problems as they also have naturally naked areas around the vent. However some hens with very long feathers hanging over the vent did get improved fertility once they got the 'above the vent' trims.

 

[Peri.S]

I just hatched a rumpless black copper marans. It always looks like she has pasty butt, but it's not. She's 3 months old now.

 

[Melly-Mae]

This spring I hatched what I thought was in a deformed chick and almost culled it. It looked like it’s legs were put on wrong but it had no problem getting up moving around so I gave it A fighting chance. I had never heard of a rumpless chicken before Having hatched it. It’s absolutely adorable! It is a cross between a black Australorp rooster And either a Rhode Island red hen, red sexlink, or barred rock hen. (Not sure which of my girls laid the egg) Do any of these breeds carry the gene for rumpless or was this a “oops” malformation? The silver baby in the picture hatched the same day And is an aracauna/ black Austrolorp cross. Due to the large size difference I am assuming my rumpless is a pullet and the other a cockerel.

Do you guys and gals agree?

 

[PurpleDaze]

I thought we might have 3 different rumpless chicks because all the other chicks had their tail feathers come in and these 3 didn't. But now it is starting to look like maybe they are coming in at 1 week 5 days old (Blue, Sapphire Splash) and 2 weeks 4 days old. (Henrietta and Baldy, they were assorted rares)