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    *Buff Orpington Thread!*

    I LOVE my Buff girls. They are fluffy and have great temperaments. I have three of them who are at the top of my flock: We call them Belinda, Ducky and "Little Chicken" in Chinese. (I can't spell it.) Ducky is a broody, every spring. She is a wonderful mother. She has hatched out several...
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    July 2016 Chicken Show

    Wow! Echo is BEAUTIFUL!
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    Broody Hen Thread!

    I LOVE my broody Buff Orpington hen. We don't (can't) have any roosters, but each year when she goes into a broody spell, I get 6-8 fertilized eggs from other locals and put them under her. (I mark them with an 'X' because she still likes to collect other eggs from the other nesting boxes.)...
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    High humidtiy = early hatch?

    Hello There! We have a hen that has done this every year in the spring. Our springs are very warm and sometimes quite rainy. In watching her, she seemed to have kept the humidity control to her liking by either squashing down very low on her eggs, or even slightly standing up. Each time she...
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    Hello, There!

    Hello! I'm new to Back Yard Chickens from Utah. We have a small flock in our back yard in the suburbs. We love our chickens and even though they were intended as "working" chickens, a few of them have become our pets and my daughter's 4-H projects. We have one Buff Orpington hen that...
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