Nuthatched and Sally PB I’m sad that your experience with Orpingtons is less than wonderful! All three of my Orpingtons are super sweet, love cuddles and good egg layers! I have a buff (Princess Buttercup) who is four years old, an Australorp,( Lucy, three years old) and a lavendar (Gracie, two...
All three of my Orpingtons are super sweet, love cuddles and good egg layers! I have a buff (Princess Buttercup) who is four years old, and in the last part of last year became a little hit and miss with her egg laying, so we'll see how it goes this year, but the other two (Australorp, three...
I love your post! Your girls are beautiful! Opal reminds me very much of my Margaret, except Margaret is a taupe/grey color, but the same inquisitive face 😀
It has their normal roll-away paint tray with a fake grass pad and then a nesting pad on top of that (they like to hollow that out to make it nice and cozy!). So no, no sharp edges.
My Buff Orpington laid a “fractured” egg today - she’s never done this before, but it’s been unusually cold here, so much so that I brought the girls into our heated garage temporarily. Could it be from the stress of the move? The other girls are laying their usual eggs.
Hi everyone! I am fairly new at being a chicken mom, this is my first attempt! My six girls are almost a year old now. I have (in pecking order, which actually seems to vary slightly from time to time) a Golden Comet (Ginger), a Silver Laced Wyandotte (Lacey), a Sapphire Gem (Sofia), a Buff...