Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[featherhead007]

Blue egg pic PLZ!

When I get a round tuit.

 

[SimpleJenn]

When I get a round tuit.

Sorry, gave my round tuit to my dad to hang up in his woodshop

 

[Debbie292d]

Discussion about red pyle. Interestingly, one mentioned splash wheaten. @Ponypoor the splash wheaten term makes sense when applied to Mr P's coloring. It also explains where all the blue and black chicks have come from, but also the odd white. The white got the dominate white and the blue/black (and any splash birds) got the BBS gene. The dominate white is what is washing the red down to the light blonde (wheaten) color. Whether the red and the wheaten can be separated or not would require lots more hatching just to observe the assorted feather development......while typing this, I recall Pretty Boy Floyd and his golden tones...so it seems likely that the Dom white isn't always linked to the wheaten color.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/red-pyle-oegb-genetics-dont-breed-true.1283772/page-2

A couple months ago I asked in my silkie page what this chicken was since at the time, I had no buffs. You can't get a buff without two buff parents, so it was suggested perhaps it was a pyle.

However, I found this at the time and didn't link the post but had quoted it:

"To make red pyles will need to cross a partridge silkie with a bird that has dominant white (either a solid white bird you know has dominant white or a red pyle bird). It can be done straightforwardly by mating a bird with white to a pure partridge silkie each generation to fix the type and then when the type is good, cross two white birds together and pure pyles will happen."

While I do have a partridge hen, I have a white rooster that isn't dominant, so that couldn't have produced this one either.

This peach rooster will be in a pen in a month or so with some buff hens, and we'll see what we get. My bet is, no buffs. It also has no black leakage at all on it, a seemingly rare thing, so if by some anomalies he's a buff, he'd be a primo one.

 

[SimpleJenn]

A couple months ago I asked in my silkie page what this chicken was since at the time, I had no buffs. You can't get a buff without two buff parents, so it was suggested perhaps it was a pyle.

However, I found this at the time and didn't link the post but had quoted it:

"To make red pyles will need to cross a partridge silkie with a bird that has dominant white (either a solid white bird you know has dominant white or a red pyle bird). It can be done straightforwardly by mating a bird with white to a pure partridge silkie each generation to fix the type and then when the type is good, cross two white birds together and pure pyles will happen."

While I do have a partridge hen, I have a white rooster that isn't dominant, so that couldn't have produced this one either.

This peach rooster will be in a pen in a month or so with some buff hens, and we'll see what we get. My bet is, no buffs. It also has no black leakage at all on it, a seemingly rare thing, so if by some anomalies he's a buff, he'd be a primo one.

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He's gorgeous

 

[featherhead007]

Sorry, gave my round tuit to my dad to hang up in his woodshopView attachment 4004617

Yep, that’s a round tuit !

 

[featherhead007]

Sorry, gave my round tuit to my dad to hang up in his woodshopView attachment 4004617

 

[Debbie292d]

He's gorgeous

Thank you, Jenn! I so wish I knew who made him though so I could do it again, but nobody is separated here. They will be in about a month when our new breeding coop is done, so I can try the buffs and black hens with him and see what happens. It's exciting!

 

[Ponypoor]

So can 1 dog. I have heard too many stories where a dog has killed them all.

Yes I know what you mean

 

[featherhead007]

I have been neglecting Dakota lately. So it’s her turn to be in the house. She’s busy eating her feed.
The others are still staying on the rafters, I am feeding them.
I didn’t expect Dakota to molt as much as she is, but wow! So many beautiful feathers just laying around in the coop.

 

[Ponypoor]

Candy Corn

I love that colour! And a wonderful name for it

I am definitely needing a bigger barn