*Buff Orpington Thread!*

[Brookshire11]

So glad you found her!!

Just lost an Orpington pullet... Must have been a hawk, can't find her anywhere.

Oh no! Good luck! I hope she turns up....

 

[BayBay Peepers]

Banana and Mutt Baby are ready for Halloween

 

[Johnn]

So glad you found her!!

Oh no! Good luck! I hope she turns up....

Thanks

 

[Johnn]

Daisy likes being one of the top hens...

ALL ORP UPDATES TOGETHER:
Injured orp update: she's kind of giving me mixed signals as to whether she is getting better or not. She looked dead miserable when I opened up the hut today but once I got her out she perked up a bit. I had to clean the shed out so I decided to do her wound treatment and then let her into the field with the others to air her wound out. She got a few funny looks, but no one started on her luckily. Wouldn't have mattered if they did because I would have fought them for her haha! Henry (Bella's boy) was being a little arse, he kept tormenting her doing the mating dance and was trying to get her and he wouldn't actually stop until I chased him off and stood right next to her. She really wasn't happy about that. Then when she was cleaning herself I could see him running up behind her so I shouted to try and make her alert and she didn't look! So I had to run down and stop him. He was really getting on my nerves!! When I put her back to bed and put her food in she ate well so I was pleased. She's now tucked up in bed with coco. Being ill didn't stop her ability to do a good stink eye!

Think all of my lot will be throwing themselves to foxes if they see what breakfast the orp gets...

Poor injured orp has a couple of lower girls starting on her. Thought she would back down but she looked insulted and stood up to them and they ran off. That's my girl! I'm acting as her personal body guard with the higher ones come though!

Someone needs to stop me from killing this cockerel (Bella's son) (just joking), he does my head in!! He won't leave poor orp alone when she's out!

Enjoying pumpkin

Bella tasting the pumpkin

 

[Cheryl1948]

My Buff, Rachael, and the two chicks she hatched Martha and Judith, six wks old.

 

[Peanutsmomma]

Banana and Mutt Baby are ready for Halloween

Happy Halloween!! Your pics gave me the best chuckle!

 

[Peanutsmomma]

Johnn, thanks for the update on Bella's mother. I am so happy to hear that she is feeling better. What chicken wouldn't feel better after that "Breakfast of Chicken Champions!" I can only imagine the "chicken piranha" feeding frenzy that would start if you put that bowl down in front of your healthy chickens.

Oh, as usual, your photos are lovely. I always enjoy them so much.

 

[Peanutsmomma]

Is it normal for chickens to lose weight after you worm them? I wormed our girls with Valbazen for the first time two weeks ago and again 10 days later, this past Tuesday. I noticed one of our sweet girls seemed to be lighter than normal so I weighed her and she has lost 6 oz since the first worming. She was only 4.5 lbs to start with. The other girls are not losing weight so I am a little concerned. Other than the weight loss, she is acting totally normal, eating, drinking, laying, demanding to be held constantly.

I saw no evidence of worms or parasites but our Vet advised us to worm our Buffs too since I had to worm our new Chocolate Orpington babies who were very sick and still in quarantine. I am hoping that worming our original girls when they didn't seem to need it didn't harm them.

 

[BayBay Peepers]

I agree. You do take some great pictures Johnn. Glad she is on the mend

 

[Cheryl1948]

John, great pics as usual Tell me, what is the breed of your white one with black on her? She is very beautiful.