Buff orp breeding??

[alabiologist]

We are considering doing the same thing. We are planning to order 25 straight run BO next spring and cull all but one roo and about 7 hens and (hopefully) have a perpetual supply of chickens and eggs.

 

[admhotel]

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I have some Buff Orp Roos that I don't know what I am going to do with. If you want to come get one he is all yours. I will have to get some updated pics for you, I just have some pics from acouple months ago. The boys are great, even with my two year old daughter chasing them around.

 

[Sew the Farmers Wife]

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I have some Buff Orp Roos that I don't know what I am going to do with. If you want to come get one he is all yours. I will have to get some updated pics for you, I just have some pics from acouple months ago. The boys are great, even with my two year old daughter chasing them around.

I would love one...but the 4 hour round trip drive would make me crazy. But you mentioned the October show in Mumford...if you don't have to find him a new home asap maybe we could work something out for that show??? Let me know

 

[admhotel]

Don't think I will be going to the Mumford show but will probley try to make it to the one at the fair in mid Oct.
My wife was able to get acouple pics of the boys today, they don't like to hold still for very long.

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I got them both early Apr. from TSC, they are pretty good with the girls, and like I said havn't shown any aggression toward me or my DW or DD.

 

[Mrs. K]

Check the thread on hatching rates over on the hatching and incubating thread- the over all average with broody hens and with incubators is running about the same, fairly near 50%.

However, the work is no where near the same! Buff hens are great mothers, and do all the work! Tonight, one mother, of a pair of sisters who hatched out together, has part of the babies up on the roost with her, and the other mother still has the other half in the nest with her! The chicks are a bit past 4 weeks old.

MrsK

 

[PunkinPeep]

The only trouble i have with broody mothers is when i have let them brood in the normal nest box where the other girls can get to them. There tend to be scuffles that damage the eggs. But when i isolate the hen with her eggs and some food and water, i have excellent hatches.

 

[Mrs. K]

I have small nest boxes, I have never seen two hens in the same box, although I have seen hens waiting for a nest. Mine did fine right in the coop with everyone else. My two buffs are slightly bigger than my red stars, and it worked great.

 

[Sew the Farmers Wife]

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I have a small coop, that I use for chicks and quarantine, away from the main coop, I thought I would use that, would she mind being seperated/alone while being broody?

 

[PunkinPeep]

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I have a small coop, that I use for chicks and quarantine, away from the main coop, I thought I would use that, would she mind being seperated/alone while being broody?

I think it puts them more at ease. They're in protective mode - since they're broody, so when you isolate them, they don't have to worry so much about protecting anything, and they can purr over their egg, etc. I've done it both ways, and i much prefer setting them up in isolation.

 

[admhotel]

I have hen right now that is sitting on some eggs, I had to move her to a seperate dog crate because one of the other hens would kick her out of the nesting box when she wanted to lay. The broody didn't seem to mind at all. She had been sitting on the eggs for a few days so she care about the new place as long as she had some eggs to sit on.

Actually the BOs are the dads.