Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[rural mouse]

Oh my goodness, George's true color is finally revealed.

Thanks to his head feathers which have finally lost a lot of their keratin coating I can confirm.

George is 100% without a doubt a splash!!!

He has at least 15 feathers in his poof that have black stripes on them. I thought he had mud in his feathers and tried to clean it off at first and then realized that nope, that is not mud. I looked him over and the black in his feathering is only contained in his head feathering right now. Am I right to think as he gets older and goes through more molts he could sport black feathers throughout his body?

Black and or "fingerprint" smudges. Also, his offspring WILL carry the restricted black gene (as splash, he has 2 copies). Crossed with that beautiful blue cochin, offspring will be either blue or splash. Crossed with ANY of your black birds, offspring will 100% be blue (leakage of other colors is always possible too). Crossed with Spot.....not quite sure (I know mottling (black and white) is recessive, speckled....?). Crossed with your barred girls, sex linked: cockerels will be BLUE barred, pullets will be Blue solid (Storm is result of similar). Crossed with your buffs....buff and blue (that question a while back about black tailed buffs....yeah...only blue tailed Buffs, I think)

Just ran splash polish male crossed with speckled sussex female through genetics calculator. It says (grain of salt here), that males will be red Columbian (crest/comb variable) and females red INCOMPLETE Colombian (crest/comb same variable). Incomplete means the neck ring will be pretty light instead of the dramatic BLACK ring around the neck. Don't ask my why it works this way, I have no clue. Am interested to see if Mr P's unusual background throws a spanner in the markings.

 

[Sylvester017]

Royal Chick’s Sylvie

I named Betty after one of Bob’s hens who was also a frizzle

My sis is "Betty" so it tickles me every time you posted or video'd your Betty

Someone has a Sylvie (Sylvester) on this thread & that one tickles me too !

@RoyalChick ~ more Sylvie pics plz !

 

[Sylvester017]

Black and or "fingerprint" smudges. Also, his offspring WILL carry the restricted black gene (as splash, he has 2 copies). Crossed with that beautiful blue cochin, offspring will be either blue or splash. Crossed with ANY of your black birds, offspring will 100% be blue (leakage of other colors is always possible too). Crossed with Spot.....not quite sure (I know mottling (black and white) is recessive, speckled....?). Crossed with your barred girls, sex linked: cockerels will be BLUE barred, pullets will be Blue solid (Storm is result of similar). Crossed with your buffs....buff and blue (that question a while back about black tailed buffs....yeah...only blue tailed Buffs, I think)

Just ran splash polish male crossed with speckled sussex female through genetics calculator. It says (grain of salt here), that males will be red Columbian (crest/comb variable) and females red INCOMPLETE Colombian (crest/comb same variable). Incomplete means the neck ring will be pretty light instead of the dramatic BLACK ring around the neck. Don't ask my why it works this way, I have no clue. Am interested to see if Mr P's unusual background throws a spanner in the markings.

Blue chickens have been my longest favourite variety. Blue laced are pretty too. I knew someone who specialty bred Blue Laced Red Brahmas but unfortunately I couldn't get any then! Their website is gone now .

 

[Grandma The Chicken]

Mugshot Monday
I don't know what you are all talking about. Something about Alex being bed ridden and losing a chicken along with copper requirements in dog food, a chicken's feet in water (I'll be honest my chickens seldom do that in the summer but they'll sometimes step in their food too. Oi vey.), splash breed? Well, whatever it is you're all conversing about, here's a Mugshot Monday, cat and chicken edition, since I missed Caturday due to no photos.

Someone decided to be a babushka (grandma) today.

Or, I guess a baby if you look at it.

Grandma, would you like to trade places? Someone wants to be you. Looks like Grandma would rather be herself. Good message, Grandma, however it is also okay to fake it until you make it. However, I want to know why you're watching someone cook. If you want to help, feel free to do so.

Tomorrow, I'll have pictures of my trip to a pet store in my area called Knisley's.

 

[Ponypoor]

Black and or "fingerprint" smudges. Also, his offspring WILL carry the restricted black gene (as splash, he has 2 copies). Crossed with that beautiful blue cochin, offspring will be either blue or splash. Crossed with ANY of your black birds, offspring will 100% be blue (leakage of other colors is always possible too). Crossed with Spot.....not quite sure (I know mottling (black and white) is recessive, speckled....?). Crossed with your barred girls, sex linked: cockerels will be BLUE barred, pullets will be Blue solid (Storm is result of similar). Crossed with your buffs....buff and blue (that question a while back about black tailed buffs....yeah...only blue tailed Buffs, I think)

Just ran splash polish male crossed with speckled sussex female through genetics calculator. It says (grain of salt here), that males will be red Columbian (crest/comb variable) and females red INCOMPLETE Colombian (crest/comb same variable). Incomplete means the neck ring will be pretty light instead of the dramatic BLACK ring around the neck. Don't ask my why it works this way, I have no clue. Am interested to see if Mr P's unusual background throws a spanner in the markings.

I think Little Grey is from one of my Grey Ladies (Misty and Whiskers), she is grey like they are, but she isn’t bearded or have muffs like they do. Only her crest from Mr P.

I figured Muffy is from one of them also as she has beard and muffs. But she is Splash, but also has the orange neck feathers.

All those hens from Mr P are of course crested but not bearded or muffs - in fact only Petunia and Muffy are bearded and muffs.

Butterscotch, Eli-too and Tippy (whom I know for 100% is a Sophia chick) don’t have beard and muffs.

 

[Sylvester017]

I only wish Aero would stop picking the buttons on my shirt

Chickens will yank band-aids off fingers too ~ or swallow earrings, or yank diamonds out of rings! They like studded jackets & zippers too!

 

[Ponypoor]

Mugshot Monday
I don't know what you are all talking about. Something about Alex being bed ridden and losing a chicken along with copper requirements in dog food, a chicken's feet in water (I'll be honest my chickens seldom do that in the summer but they'll sometimes step in their food too. Oi vey.), splash breed? Well, whatever it is you're all conversing about, here's a Mugshot Monday, cat and chicken edition, since I missed Caturday due to no photos.

Someone decided to be a babushka (grandma) today.
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Or, I guess a baby if you look at it.
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Grandma, would you like to trade places? Someone wants to be you. Looks like Grandma would rather be herself. Good message, Grandma, however it is also okay to fake it until you make it. However, I want to know why you're watching someone cook. If you want to help, feel free to do so.
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Grandma is looking well, the kitty is looking adorable.

You shall have to read backwards in order to keep up like I do!

 

[Sylvester017]

Mugshot Monday
I don't know what you are all talking about. Something about Alex being bed ridden and losing a chicken along with copper requirements in dog food, a chicken's feet in water (I'll be honest my chickens seldom do that in the summer but they'll sometimes step in their food too. Oi vey.), splash breed? Well, whatever it is you're all conversing about, here's a Mugshot Monday, cat and chicken edition, since I missed Caturday due to no photos.

Someone decided to be a babushka (grandma) today.
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Or, I guess a baby if you look at it.
View attachment 4017703
Grandma, would you like to trade places? Someone wants to be you. Looks like Grandma would rather be herself. Good message, Grandma, however it is also okay to fake it until you make it. However, I want to know why you're watching someone cook. If you want to help, feel free to do so.
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Tomorrow, I'll have pictures of my trip to a pet store in my area called Knisley's.

So happy you got your pictures working! That's sweet the kitty stayed wrapped up. I like Grandma's smaller comb. I have a preference for smaller or pea combs.

 

[Ponypoor]

Chickens will yank band-aids off fingers too ~ or swallow earrings, or yank diamonds out of rings! They like studded jackets & zippers too!

Maybe that what happened to my earring

Chickeennnnsssss!

Here are last year’s (2023) school chicks from my older hens and Mr P.

Butterscotch and Little Grey whom I suspect are from same egg mama

Rebecca I tried to ‘clean’ that orange ‘stain’ off her - hahaha.

 

[Ponypoor]

Maybe that what happened to my earring

Chickeennnnsssss!

Here are last year’s (2023) school chicks from my older hens and Mr P.

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Butterscotch and Little Grey whom I suspect are from same egg mama
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Rebecca I tried to ‘clean’ that orange ‘stain’ off her - hahaha.

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Those two have no beard or muff, what is the trait- recessive or dominant for being bearded or not?