*Buff Orpington Thread!*

[BuffBard]

Any thoughts on gender on this one? Still early yet, I know. I think they're going on 5 weeks old now. This is my little Nugget, who is so very sweet.

She looks pretty to me.

 

[speckledhen]

Speckledhen, do you have the contact info on the one you got chicks from last? William

I have an email, but he rarely answers those. I will PM you his email address and phone, but he also has no answering machine. Very hard to reach, but super nice guy with great stock if you can get hold of him.

 

[Searsmom]

Any thoughts on gender on this one? Still early yet, I know. I think they're going on 5 weeks old now.
This is my little Nugget, who is so very sweet.

Too funny! I use baby-gate fencing for my chickens too! Pretty Nugget.

 

[Tappy4me]

Too funny! I use baby-gate fencing for my chickens too! Pretty Nugget.

Thanks! Haha it works so perfectly and is versatile

 

[FVRM]

Any thoughts on gender on this one? Still early yet, I know. I think they're going on 5 weeks old now. This is my little Nugget, who is so very sweet.

Looks like a pullet. At 5 weeks it should already have had a hooked tail if it was a rooster.

 

[Tappy4me]

Looks like a pullet. At 5 weeks it should already have had a hooked tail if it was a rooster.

Yay! Glad to hear.

 

[emmaotter]

Hello All,
Any help would be great on knowing if my 5 week old buff orp chick is a hen or too... I'm thinking pullet

Thanks in advance

 

[Gldnrose]

Little "Bubba" still has no tail and isn't feathered nearly as much as the obvious pullets in the bunch, either the Orp or the NH pullets. No comb to speak of yet, but he's only just over 3 weeks old and Orp cockerels tend to be slow in that regard from my experience. Dare I hope this is just a weirdly feathering tank of a pullet? There is absolutely no comb at all, not even an arch.





The Orp pullet is on the left, NH behind.

Hi there. I have never posted on this thread but was just looking through (as I have BO's also) and saw your post. If it helps ease your mind at all I had a girl that did the same thing, no tail for the longest time. I thought for sure that she was a he because of that. I got 6 Buff chicks. Five of them all had tails growing at same rate except that one. Well I did end up with a roo, but it wasn't that one, it was one of the five that all looked the same. It became very evident that the one was a roo pretty early on too. Comb and wattles seemed to grow and redden overnight. The poor chicky that took forever to grow tail was dubbed "Bob" for bobtail. The name stuck, poor girl, lol. She is also the smallest of them all if that makes a difference? Good luck )

 

[speckledhen]

Hi there. I have never posted on this thread but was just looking through (as I have BO's also) and saw your post. If it helps ease your mind at all I had a girl that did the same thing, no tail for the longest time. I thought for sure that she was a he because of that. I got 6 Buff chicks. Five of them all had tails growing at same rate except that one. Well I did end up with a roo, but it wasn't that one, it was one of the five that all looked the same. It became very evident that the one was a roo pretty early on too. Comb and wattles seemed to grow and redden overnight. The poor chicky that took forever to grow tail was dubbed "Bob" for bobtail. The name stuck, poor girl, lol. She is also the smallest of them all if that makes a difference? Good luck )

Well, thank you for posting that! It's been ages since I had any hatchery chicks, about 8 years since I had any Buff Orps from a hatchery and never had a pullet feather out this way. Maybe there's hope for this one yet! All the blue/black/splash Orpingtons I used to raise would only feather this way if it was a cockerel.

 

[FVRM]

Hello All,
Any help would be great on knowing if my 5 week old buff orp chick is a hen or too... I'm thinking pullet

Thanks in advance

BOs are really hard to tell because their combs can be as big as a Roos when their young. But yours looks like a pullet but check it's tail feathers to see if any are starting to curved.