Your birds are beautiful!!! My Roo is a Lavender but he looks rough. He was bottom of the rooster pecking order where I got him and molting. I’m excited to see him with full feathers.
I love how a black Orpington looks. Excited to get some of those next spring.
Yes this makes sense. I would let people know that they’d be split.
I have a few lavender hens and they’re feathering isn’t great so I was wanting to add in a black / brown to help with the feathers.
I’ve been specifically searching for split black but the only lady selling them wants $25 a...
We have a chick that does seem to be a picker but I do honestly feel like it may be a deformity. We noticed it as soon as we moved them from the brooder.
Just hatched out some Orpingtons. I got the eggs from someone who had a lavender and chocolate roo covering lavender, splash, blue and chocolate hens (if I’m remembering correctly on the hens) so she told me to expect lavender, blue or chocolate chicks.
I had 8 hatch. 4 lavender, 2 chocolate...