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    Rabbits for Meat...What are major challenges?

    Hi SIMPleChick, Meat rabbit major challenges--very good question! Giving your rabbits the ideal set-up will be a challenge. Rabbits are not very heat tolerant, predator tolerant or fright tolerant, so, you need to address all these areas when creating their living space. HEAT: No direct...
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    Russian Orloffs

    I did not contact Erhard to ask, but I think I will, now that you mention it. I am happy to hear none of the others look like mongrels. I thought about the possibility of this being a Welsumer/Orloff mix. Like I said above, he really is friendlier and quicker to learn than the Orloffs, If I had...
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    Russian Orloffs

    I suppose it is possible others of mine have mixed blood--can you tell anything from my previous photos? The rest of the chicks are very different from this one, however, in looks AND personality. Very yellow legs, big muffs and beards, different tailsets, different builds--but all extremely...
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    Russian Orloffs

    Thank you all for the input about non-negotiables when culling. Yes, type is very important to me as well. If I wanted Sussexes, I'd have gotten Sussex chicks...;-) I like the idea of keeping track of foraging ability too. I thought about just letting mine free-range (currently on grass in...
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    Russian Orloffs

    Thank you, Alaskan and Julio. I think they look beautiful--of course, I am no doubt biased...;-) My dilemma is how to choose what to keep, what to cull, and how NOT to base that on appearance only. I have now read in a couple of different places of people having problems with Orloff chicks and...
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    Russian Orloffs

    I am glad to see so much interest in preserving Orloffs, and I thought I'd post a few photos of mine. I have a Spangled roo, breeding unknown; four Mahogany hens acquired as pullets from Erhard (with the gracious assistance of Royce Blaricome) and seven 10-week-old Spangleds (three cockerels...
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    Iowa Blue, bantam or something else?

    Well, she's bigger now...;-) but still bantam sized. If she did not freak out so badly when anyone--or anychicken (except the Brahma and the Silkie) come near her, I might be interested in adding her to the laying flock. We'll see...
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    Iowa Blue, bantam or something else?

    Wow, the silence is deafening!!! C'mon, folks, any guesses--or is it so obvious that you don't want to embarrass me? ;-)
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    Iowa Blue, bantam or something else?

    I bought this mystery chick with her big friend, a Dark Brahma. They stick together, but, while the Brahma is sweet and friendly, this one wants nothing to do with people--or with any of the rest of the flock. She has remained small--four months old, and about the size of a female pigeon. Slate...
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    Russian Orloff roo and Rhode Island Red hen (Duvall/Monroe WA)

    Hi Liz, Just FYI, Nicholai and Red have settled in very well. I love the velvety brown eggs that Red gives so regularly. She is my first RIR, and is a good little ambassador for the breed. And Nicholai is a "polite" crower--he does it a little in the morning, and an occasional crow during the...
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    Russian Orloffs

    Yes, a breed organization to promote the Russian Orloffs would be fantastic. I agree with Judge Helton that the challenge is longevity: it is easy to dive in at the beginning, but life has a way of changing up on us, and it may not be realistic to expect one person to carry the organization for...
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    Russian Orloff roo and Rhode Island Red hen (Duvall/Monroe WA)

    Thank you, KittenMcGee, for letting me take these beauties, Nicholai and Red. They have now joined my "Motley Crew" of hens--a Silkie, an Olive-egger, a Dark Brahma, and a mystery girl--in the chicken tank. All are happily helping my husband prepare the vegetable beds. After they are done with...
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    Help needed! Dont know whats wrong with my chicken?

    It is possible she may be eggbound--you really need to examine her vent to see if everything looks (and feels) okay. Eggbound means she is not passing the egg, that it is getting lodged, usually near the opening but could be further up. This may require a gentle lubricated finger insertion to...
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    Russian orloffs

    Hi, I hope I'm not too late to chime in...I have four Mahogany Russian Orloff hens that are about eight months old presently. They have been laying since Christmas--about 40 eggs/month, and I am not sure if three or all four are actually laying. No supplemental lighting, either. Mine are not...
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    1st Annual Washington State Poultry Swap! Interested?

    I'm interested. I'd be very interested if it were closer to the middle of the state--Yakima, Wenatchee--since I am tucked up in the NW corner. Of course, right now, I have nothing to trade--but I am definitely in the market for an Orloff cockerel (hint, hint!)
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