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wellington womble



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 05 9:32 am    Post subject: finding chickens with fluffy bottoms (!) Reply with quote
    

My gran wants to buy my mum chickens for a housewarming present (she knows about this) and has asked me to help her find them, she has requested flufffy bottoms, as she had chickens like this as a child herself. Colour doesn't seem to matter, but mum wants them mostly for eggs, and may get up the courage to eat one one of these days. Any suggestions anyone?

pink bouncy



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 05 4:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Every chicken I ever saw had a fluffy bum. That includes pekin bantams, light sussex and game birds.

alison
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 05 7:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Buff Orpingtons have a fluffy bum.

Bugs



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 05 7:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Buff Orpingtons sprang to mind too - they're fluffy all over though, aren't they? The Cousin It of the chicken world. But I think Pink Bouncy is right, never seen a chicken without a fluffy bottom, but I think paler colours show it up better - our Buff Sussexes appear to be wearing bloomers while the Speckled is less impressive, but when you get closer neither is better endowed. What a topic

The woman who runs the Wernlas Collection and writes in TKG likes Barnevelders and they do look and sound rather lovely. Couldn't you and Mrs Womble and Mrs Womble Snr take an afternoon out at a breeder and pick your/their preference? We were going for Light and Speckled until we got to the breeder and saw the Buffs, they were so...chickeny...that we had to have them. The Country Smallholding site has a very good breeders directory, once you are on there you can do ctrl+f for the county - no fancy search mechanism.

Damnably broody though but Sussexes are dual purpose birds. I'll have look (my sister in law sent me a chicken encyclopaedia ) and see if I can find any more that fit the bill...fluffy bottoms, plump thighs, good layers. I hope nobody reads this topic at work

pink bouncy



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 05 8:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

My kids have a catch-all name for our chickens, they are called 'Fluffybutt'.

Bugs



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PostPosted: Sat Jul 09, 05 8:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

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wellington womble



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 05 8:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Hmmmm - what I need is a chicken book with pictures! ladybird guide to chickens? I expect that is what we will do, minuis mrs womble senior, who isn't very mobile these days. Thanks guys - I'll get mum to look at orpingtons.

judith



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PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 05 2:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Yeah, orps, light sussex or even maran (lovely chocolate eggs) if there is any possibility they might end up as dinner. Otherwise just go for what you like the look of. I think some of the laced wyandottes are lovely. If you have more than a couple, then you will inevitably have more eggs than you can consume on your own
There are always banties of course - some of those are fluffier than a fluffy thing that has just fluffed itself up.

alison
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PostPosted: Sun Jul 10, 05 7:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

How about this

https://www.poultrymad.co.uk/chickens/orpington.shtml

alison
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wellington womble



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 05 10:41 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

they're rather sweet alison. She'd like those - they look like chickens (ladybird book chickens, I mean!) I think she's planning on a half a dozen, and there's only the two of them, so they don't need mass egg production anyway. I'm hoping for the eggstra's (sorry! )

Thanks guys

Bugs



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 05 10:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

wellington womble wrote:
I think she's planning on a half a dozen, and there's only the two of them, so they don't need mass egg production anyway.


I think that Orpingtons are not the best layers in the world (possibly because a lot have been bred for looks etc to show rather than as utility birds). So even with 1/2 dozen there mightn't be that many spares! Definitely a visit somewhere appropriate is called for - I would love to make it to the Wernlas collection one day, but that is probably too much of a trip for this one - https://www.wernlas.com/

Mrs Fiddlesticks



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 05 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

there's a chicken centre at the Domestic Fowl trust. https://www.domesticfowltrust.co.uk/index.html. What about the fluffy legged sort - Brahmas or Cochins I think they are.

If you have a breed in mind there is a directory of breeders in the back of each months Practical Poultry.

Jb



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PostPosted: Mon Jul 11, 05 3:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Judith wrote:
Yeah, orps, light sussex or even maran (lovely chocolate eggs) ...


Chickens that lay chocolate eggs?

dave d



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PostPosted: Tue Jul 12, 05 5:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

sounds to me like cochins

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