Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Because my Princesses live in a Chicken Palace.

I have always just considered that you were royalty. That's slightly disappointing.

 

[BY Bob]

Tomte is the name I go by online Anyone familiar with Norway/Sweden history/mythology might know what it means

So you are going to make us Google it. Geeze.

 

[BY Bob]

My favorite pullet when I first got chickens was a very small Buff Orpington, and because of her golden color, she got the name Daffodil. Her much larger sister got a coordinating name, Dandelion, and they were shortened to Daffy and Dandy. A few weeks after I got them, Daffy passed away, and I was still grieving at the time when I made my account, so I picked ILoveDaffy. For anyone who wants to know, I have no idea what Daddy passed from, I just woke up and went to go feed the chickens one day and from the looks of it, she had just dropped off the roost that night dead. No sickness or marks on her and the others were just fine. Looking back it may have been a Failure to Thrive type thing since she was so small compared to the others.

That's a lovely tribute.

 

[RoyalChick]

That is so cool!

Mine neither. They say no to banana

I am astonished about banana. Mine just love banana.
They get it all over their little faces.
They don’t eat the skins, but they pick every tiny piece of banana off the inside. They love the stringy bits - like worms!

Banana tax: Tassels must have been molting. Those little white specks are keratin sheath dust. Maybe from someone else because there really haven’t been a lot of black feathers on the ground.

 

[BY Bob]

Nope! Honestly I really just liked the sound of the name. Way back before Christians, a tomte or nisse (tomte is used mainly in Sweden while nisse is more Norwegian) was simply a spirit of the earth, or a house/homestead spirit. They were said to watch over the land and livestock, but would play tricks if they weren't respected and honored

One example is, if you spill something on the floor and don't call out to the tomte to warn him, he might slip in the puddle, get angry, and tie all of your cattles' tails together

But if you treat the tomte well, he'll help you care for your home and livestock!

That's cool. Thanks for sharing.

 

[RoyalChick]

I have always just considered that you were royalty. That's slightly disappointing.

Sorry to disappoint. I am but a humble chicken servant who got carried away when designing her chicken coop.

 

[RoyalChick]

Happy 2fer Tuesday.
A blast from the past. Baby Pglet and Pooh trying to look grown-up.

And on Sunday, Bernie and Tassels deep in conversation.

 

[bgmathteach]

Yes, very sad . Cornish Cross broiler/meat chickens are bred to grow abnormally FAST to process them at 6 to 8 wks old. Barbaric! Unfortuately those are the chicken meat sold in supermarkets, restaurant menus, or fast food drive-thru's. Yuck!

Cornish Cross ~ abnormal bird/grow rate
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The original Dark Cornish Game is a normal bird w/ a normal grow rate
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The love is for the original DC girl - I love mine!

 

[bgmathteach]

Forget tomorrow. I took my headlamp out and got some pictures. Her voice is changing and she sounds like a goose so she is young. What do you all think, Brahma or Cochin? She has to be between 4 to 5 months as their is no sound of a chick peep so she is not a large fowl.
Also, excuse the coop, clean out day is tomorrow.

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others have surely replied already - but my vote is for a bantam Dark Brahma. I am soooo envious! I would love a dark or buff brahma. I have had the light ones, sweet girls! I also love the 'goose/honk' stage!

Pretty girl. She doesn't know how lucky she is to have found her way to you!

 

[rural mouse]

She is pretty - love the feather pattern (which might be called lacing but I have forgotten what @rural mouse taught me already).

Next lesson:

Lacing is the color going around the edge of a feather. Barring (or cuckoo depending upon the breed, dunno why on that) is white stripes across a colored feather. Penciled OR partridge (depending on the background color) are thin black lines around the feather WITH the background color going around the edge of the feather. When combined with lots of feathers, it looks like chevrons.

Just add to the confusion, there is a penciled that is a black stripe going across a not-white background feather (Cheetah is marked this way). Most of the feather patterns are black marks on other color feathers. Exceptions for barring, mottled and speckled/mille-fleur/jubilee.