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    help! one of our girls laid a red egg!

    Yes, the egg looks totally nor.al apart from the coating of blood.
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    help! one of our girls laid a red egg!

    the only thing that's different is we got rid of the back orpington cockerel
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    help! one of our girls laid a red egg!

    I have had a closer look at the egg and it is a normal egg but coated in dried blood, which is worrying but she seems her usual happy self.
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    help! one of our girls laid a red egg!

    No she's a magpie POL. One of our neighbours has welsummers and its totally different. the egg has a different texture to a normal egg.
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    help! one of our girls laid a red egg!

    I apologise in advance if this isn't posted in the right place but... One of our girls laid a red velvety egg yesterday! I have never seen it before and were worried. I have tried washing it off in case it was blood but but it won't wash off. She has been laying everyday as usual so we...
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    Black orpington - cock or pullet?

    We have talked about what we are going to do and we are still deciding, but we will probably swap the roo for another one (so he doesn't interbreed with the other Orpingtons) and have a go at breeding in the spring/summer. Although it will be a shame he is such a great personality! Also we...
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    Black orpington - cock or pullet?

    Thanks for the responses from everyone. I wasn't expecting so many! I have spoken to the farm we got them from and they have offered either to swap the rooster for a pullet or give us another pullet for free. Now we need to decide what we are going to do! Michael
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    Black orpington - cock or pullet?

    Hi, I'm new on the forum and new to keeping orpingtons. I would be grateful for your opinions. We brought 3 Black Orpington pullets a few months ago but since we got them the one in the photo has started to get flecks in it's feathers around it's neck and it's comb is a lot bigger than the...
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