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    How Many Eggs Did You Get Today?

    I got my first egg today after 37.5 weeks of waiting from one of my english lavender orpingtons!!! Her 3 lavender sisters and one lavender cuckoo sister have yet to lay...sigh. I figured either my two cinnamon queens or 6 speckled Sussex, all 19.5 weeks, would beat the lavenders but they...
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    My first egg story!!!

    So, I bought 4 buff orpingtons and 4 silkies when they were only a day old. I raised them ever so carefully until the time came when they looked like they might start laying. I ran out to the coop excitedly every morning for several weeks. Finally one morning, my husband asked me if I was going...
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    Cuckoo Orpingtons - pullet or cockerel???

    Update - They both ended up being cockerels :(
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    Lavender Orpington questions

    Thanks for the reply. You just saved some emu looking hens from an early trip to the stew pot.
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    Lavender Orpington questions

    I have two questions about my 10 week old lavender orpington hen with her back to you in this picture. First, her coloration is very dark for a lavender. I hatched her from a shipment of hatching eggs and a sister has the same dark lavender coloration. Is this normal? Second, does she have the...
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    Cuckoo Orpingtons - pullet or cockerel???

    So far it is 50/50 pullet and cockerel. Anyone want to break the tie? Also, any idea if they are single or double barred?
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    Cuckoo Orpingtons - pullet or cockerel???

    Anyone else?
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    Pullet or Roo?

    My guess would be #1 - Pullet; #2 - Cockerel. I have 8 week old lavenders which are my first chickens, so I only have a whopping 2 weeks more experience at this than you. Lets see what the experienced folks have to say.
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    Cuckoo Orpingtons - pullet or cockerel???

    8.5 weeks. Sorry, the original post sent accidently, and I didn't get everything in there.
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    Cuckoo Orpingtons - pullet or cockerel???

    I sure hope you are right redranger209 because, as you can see from the last picture, I am loosing the hen lottery with this batch!
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    Cuckoo Orpingtons - pullet or cockerel???

    Chicken #1 Chicken #1 Chicken #2 Chicken #2 Chicken #2 with 4 cockerels and one hen from same hatch for comparison
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    Cuckoo Orpingtons - pullet or cockerel???

    Major fail trying to attach pics...I'm working on it. I keep getting error messages when I try to upload them. Is there any secret to uploading pics?
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    Cuckoo Orpingtons - pullet or cockerel???

    I hatched out 5 lavender, 5 lavender cuckoo and 2 black cuckoo orpingtons. I think I have them all sexed except for the 2 black cuckoos. All of the other cockerels have much bigger combos and waddles and the hens are much smaller (you can see the in the background of some pics). What do you think?
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