Chicken Thread

[2seth2]

for all those people coming from BYC here is your own mini byc enjoy and ask and talk eveything chickens here

 

[Shayna]

for all those people coming from BYC here is your own mini byc enjoy and ask and talk eveything chickens here

Well thank you! I think I'll chicken this place up a little bit.

Meet some of my flock and a couple of their chicks.

I could tell this place was in serious need of fluffy chickens! Now don't forget to come to BYC for a visit when it's back and better than ever!

 

[2seth2]

love the paint silkies

 

[GuineaLady93]

Those silkies are so cute!

 

[Stacykins]

I will spam with my Araucanas

Abe, tufted n rumpless

Ambose, also tufted n rumpless (my favaaavorite!). Yes, that is spilled oatmeal in the picture, hah!

This was Ambrose when he was a day old, awwwwwwwww

Duckwing hen, tufted n rumpless

Why lay eggs all alone when you can share a nest box? both are rumpless and tufted

"We will cut you!"

Eeeeeeeeeeeggggs

My lil sweet cuckoo pullet, tufted n rumpless.

This is also her as a day old chick!

 

[ForestOwl]

that duckwing hen is one cool looking bird!

 

[2seth2]

tuffted and rumpless seem like a pattern

 

[Stacykins]

tuffted and rumpless seem like a pattern

Haha, yea. I used to have a few tailed birds, but found them new homes. Both important breed traits that they can sometimes be without (since if a chick inherits who copies of the dominant tufting gene it dies in the shell, which means all live tufted birds are heterozygous for the gene and thus can throw cleanfaced offspring). Rumpless is also dominant but if the birds have a recessive copy of the tailed gene, can throw tailed offspring. And rumplessness reduces fertility, too, so some breeders keep them.

 

[Shayna]

love the paint silkies

Thank you!

Those silkies are so cute!

Thanks! And I see you just started a guinea thread.. I'll have to post some pics on there later.

 

[kla37]

Chicken pic, thank goodness!!!

Ya'll are awesome.

My sweetest blue cochin:

fluffy butt fix: