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Is anyone interested in adding silver grey Dorkings to their flock this year?

Hi @wheezy50. Sorry for the delay in getting back with you. I will have chocolate and chocolate cuckoo English Orps this year if they ever start feeling like breeding. I know what you mean by some having incorrect body type. My current roo is a happy and handsome single barred guy who is from...

People need to be educated that Salmonella is real, potentially deadly, and avoidable. All of us have a duty to make sure our friends and customers are given the information they need. I believe the Indiana State Poultry Association on the Purdue campus has brochures available, or you can print...

We lost our blue English Orp roo Junior recently. He was Cogburn's son and a wonderful boy, not quite as big as Cog but with a better comb. With all the rain, I had been avoiding the chicken yard and he was so fluffy Jay didn't notice until he was seriously ill. Crop impaction AND sour crop...

DH and I did coiffures on everyone's derrieres over the weekend to increase fertility rates. English Orps are so fluffy everywhere, including back there! We're getting good numbers of eggs now so it was definitely time. Cogburn was so concerned about what we were doing. He watched us like a...

@Faraday40, OMG, I pray your sister's doctors figure out the cause of all this and turn things around all the way! Sounds just awful and very scary.

A weasel took one of our chickens a few years ago. We could tell by the "manner of death" using one of the many charts online. Our coop isn't far from both woods and a creek. I have never personally seen one of the varmints in my life, and hope I never do. What they do to poultry (mostly...

@flyladyrocks Your tendon observation is interesting. Different. May need an entirely different approach but I may well not have what's necessary. Keep them fed but this does not sound promising or like "regular" crossbeak, so it could have an unhappy end. PM me, though! Send photos from...

Last post today. I'm having a fairly big deal medical test/procedure tomorrow morning, and will happily accept all well wishes from friends and friends to be. It has been a wicked 2 weeks leading up to it. I'm on almost no pain meds, for the test, and it has been brutal. Hit my max pain...

Btw I am keeping a splash pullet and a black cuckoo split to chocolate cockerel for myself. It's my first splash girl! I'm also hanging onto a very sweet lav pullet but might be talked into selling her, but not alone. She mothered my little group of 3 and I was impressed with how henlike she was.

Still looking for homes for my older Orp chicks! All English. All NPIP. All vaccinated against Mareks. 1 black cockerel, gonna be huge, and Cogburn's grandson 1 pair of blues, also Cogburn's grands 1 pair of solid chocolates 2 pairs of chocolate cuckoos PM me if interested. Will work with...

@flyladyrocks and @Leahs Mom, I have fed medicated feed to all my chicks for 5 years until they go outside or are sold, and I have never, ever seen any neurological problems in any older chicks as mentioned in the Merck Manual. Just FYI and I always recommend it. It's very safe and I have...

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That's right, weekly when they are that young, then every 2 weeks, etc., as needed to keep it moving the right way and/or keep it stable until it's pretty well "set" for life (barring trauma). Can the chick eat OK? It is also possible for them to break their beaks at the bony attachment to...

So my chick sale fell through and I have the following English Orp chicks available: 2 blue cockerels, Cogburn grandsons 1 true black cockerel, Cogburn grandson Single barred chocolate cuckoos, male and female Solid chocolates, 1 cockerel and 1 pullet A likely double barred chocolate cuckoo...

Hey@flyladyrocks, I'd take the most off the top beak with a file, and only file the bottom if it is wider than the upper beak. The upper should be just slightly wider than the lower. Fixing damage is the same no matter what the cause. Same principles. Keep me posted.

@Mother2Hens How is Hadley without Frieda?

Hi everybody! I have some cockerels that I'm looking to sell. All are English Orps: lavender, blue, chocolate cuckoo, maybe a solid chocolate. Nice looking, healthy chicks. Marek's vaccinated, veterinarian raised. NPIP certified. Lav and blues are Cogburn's grandchicks. Hatched 1/31-2/2...

@Chickens4lifee where are you located? Would like an EE. A hawk got our red wheaten last year and we miss her.

First chicks of the year started hatching yesterday! I have lavender, black/lav split, regular black, blue, and chocolate (don't know if any are cuckoo yet) Orps. I think the only two girls in my lav pen that were laying were my black splits, since so far I have them in equal numbers. Only...