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Interesting my bantam babies do not I wonder why they are different

Jean, I saw the lighter colors in the face on Jeremy's choc chick too in his pics the bantam chocs I hatched are not crossed to the LF, just both bantam chocs and they were dark all over is it something from the cross to LF that is giving them light faces at first? I know they will feather in...

Jeremy I PM'd you :) Any one near Sacramento have shipping boxes I can buy? My box shipper didn't send them to me in time and I've promised birds to be shipped soon.

Yummy, Chocolate Ameraucanas, we will need another thread for that. What do the other colors of Eng LF Orps weigh? I know I've always heard that chocolate would make you weigh more, but I doubt it effected the chickens.

They are GORGEOUS so glad you took pics and shared

For those of you with adult bantam choc orps, about how much do they weigh? And how do you weigh them... And how much do the LF choc orps weigh? this is averages of course Are there standards for the bantam choc orps someone can point me to

The little black chick is looking like a boy to me as well Jeremy. I'm going to go stare at a choc orp female chick and see what she looks like up close like that. The photos make the legs look chunkier on the black than on the choc and the female chick I just picked up and examined has little...

Jeremy, what are they crossed with? What color orps. I have not seen alot of baby chocs yet, but mine have dark heads Can someone tell me why some will have light heads like Jeremy's and mine are all one color? and boy are your new babies DARLING! so glad you posted pics

We all have this afflection we have solved it by having as many colors as we can :)

I have pics for you. chocolate orps at 5 weeks I have more eggs in, hopefully all girls this time so these 2 extra beautiful gentlemen can have a partner. :)

Awesome Jeremy. This is fabulous news! And you were due something good in chicken land we want pics!

Lots to like in that Kate. She's beautiful. Myrtle is too but Kate is stunning.

Oh Wow, baby goats are the cutest things in the world. Congratulations.

I have 6 bantam chocolate orpington eggs that have developed and are due to hatch on this coming Thursday. I will post pics I'm EXCITED

Well, the first 10 bantam choc orp eggs were all clears hope they get the hang of it soon

Quote: I have LOTS of juveniles available! Don't you go selling MINE!

Quote: Hmm, we used drops of ivermectin from a bottle that is for cattle. The chocolates and lavs didn't seem to have any bugs but some of the coops were exposed to Northern Fowl mites so we treated 100 chickens. The chocolates got 2 drops each. You think it will not effect the viability of...

Quote: If you used the one in the blue box (eprinex) there is no withdrawal, however there is for the one in the brown box Hmm, we used drops of ivermectin from a bottle that is for cattle. The chocolates and lavs didn't seem to have any bugs but some of the coops were exposed to Northern...

Chocolate Bantam Swirl laid her first egg yesterday. Unfortunately, I just treated all the birds with ivermectin so I have to wait til January before I can do anything with her eggs.

Quote: I'll let you know in a week. I am putting about 10 eggs in the bator tonight from 50% birds. Prior to collecting, I was using the eggs and they were fertile. I have since trimmed the rooster a bit but not the hens. The eggs I'm about to incubate though are from totally untrimmed rooster...