*Buff Orpington Thread!*

[Big Orp]

Johnn

How big is monty? He looks like a monster.

 

[Johnn]

Johnn

How big is monty? He looks like a monster.

I wish he was mine! He belongs to thedragonlady

 

[thedragonlady]

Johnn

How big is monty? He looks like a monster.

Monty weighs 15-17 lbs, depending on the season.This time of the year, he is a very busy boy !

 

[Searsmom]

My husband and I took our 5-year old out in the field today and flew a kite in the field. The chickens hid the entire time and wouldn't come out until we put the kite away!

Scaredy Buffs!

 

[newbiechick1]

Hello everyone! I am new to the wonderful world of chickens and I come with questions! I am trying to meet my husband in the middle when it come to what we want. We are looking for a chicken that will lay large brown eggs and that will do well in cold and hot weather. We want a friendly bird as we do have a young son and are planning to have more children. After my research I was set on the buff orpingtons. I love their color! They sound perfect. My only concern is the broodiness. My husband thinks it will become a hassle. We would like to have a few dozen hens with 1 or 2 roosters.we had planned on incubating eggs in the coming years but I thought with the buffs they could just take care of everything! So after the paragraph of babbling here... should I go with the buff orps or are they really too broody? On average how many eggs will one hen lay a week? Any comments or suggestions a are greatly appreciated!

 

[Johnn]

Hello everyone! I am new to the wonderful world of chickens and I come with questions! I am trying to meet my husband in the middle when it come to what we want. We are looking for a chicken that will lay large brown eggs and that will do well in cold and hot weather. We want a friendly bird as we do have a young son and are planning to have more children. After my research I was set on the buff orpingtons. I love their color! They sound perfect. My only concern is the broodiness. My husband thinks it will become a hassle. We would like to have a few dozen hens with 1 or 2 roosters.we had planned on incubating eggs in the coming years but I thought with the buffs they could just take care of everything! So after the paragraph of babbling here... should I go with the buff orps or are they really too broody? On average how many eggs will one hen lay a week? Any comments or suggestions a are greatly appreciated!

Not sure about everyone elses but my girls deffo don't lay big brown eggs. They are medium sized and cream coloured. Mine are all broody girls and one sat 3 times a year and thats when I let her sit so god knows what they would be like if they where broken all the time. I'm going to throw my honest opinion out which wont be liked by many, but I don't think people should get broody breeds when they don't want them because it always just ends up with them complaining about how their hens are broody all the time and I find it really irritating when they do. Have you ever considered ex battery hens or just the plain ginger ones without being in cages? My ex batts are very tame and easy to handle and lay large brown and sometimes cream coloured eggs.

 

[Johnn]

Well actually my girls eggs are small. Only Bella's are what I class as medium.

 

[Searsmom]

All chickens are different.

I started with one Buff rooster and 5 hens, they laid around 3 eggs/day. (I also had Easter Eggers who laid an egg a day)Their first spring one went broody and another one went broody twice. Each time I let them sit on eggs because they were so persistent. Removing them from the nest twice a day didn't work. I could have probably put them in a wire cage where they would have a fresh breeze blowing on them and cooled off their broodiness, but that just seemed wrong all around. You can control the amount of eggs they sit on so they don't increase your flock faster than you can keep up with them. Egg production went down to 1-2 eggs/day.

Since I raised that batch by hand, they were incredibly friendly and will still let me pet them. Their children are not so friendly, but my 5-year old can run around and I don't worry about them going after her. I picked Orpingtons because I wanted the broody hens - frankly I wasn't expecting any of them to be broody - so I was tickled pink that I got two of them.

Hope that helps!

 

[newbiechick1]

Thank you for your comments! I may need to do more research. My husband really wants large brown eggs. I just want a friendly good looking bird. Thank you!

 

[norcalchickens]

This here is "Captain Cornbread" and a 4 month old pullet. Had to share