*Buff Orpington Thread!*

[Jeanna Marie]

I am too impatient... I want my girls and/or guys to hurry up and grow...lol

 

[Crafty chick]

I guess I'm not in as much of a hurry this go around. I have 4 hens and a roo that I use their eggs to incubate and eat/give away. By fall if these babies aren't laying I WILL be impatient!

 

[Crafty chick]

these are the 4 I hatched in my home made incubator. I think these yellow fuzz balls are the cutest kind of chicks you could have!

 

[mcurry]

Mcurry~ I started fermented feed on my baby BO chicks and the feathers started popping out at full speed! They love it too. A little messy, but they are still cute.

Tell me more about this feed. Lol sorry newbie.

 

[whitetail98]

Here's my buff Orpington hen:

She is very sweet and gentle but loves to hold herself high bc she's the largest hen in the flock haha

 

[Crafty chick]

Ok, you need a bucket,mixing spoon, feed, water, and braggs apple cider vinegar with mother (very important). The ACV is about $6 in the organic isle of the grocery. Put 2 days worth of feed in the bucket, cover with water and mix. Make sure you have enough water, the feed fluffs. Then add 3-4 Tablesoons of the ACV and stir. You have to stir it a couple times a day, then when it starts to bubble it's ready to feed it to them. Mine took about 3 days. If you find a warm place in your house it won't take as long. Scoop and drain what you need, letting the liquid stay in your bucket. Put more feed in the bucket, adding water as you need it to cover the feed, making sure it's mixed well. I feed mine 3 times a day, sometimes 4 if they get real chirpy.

 

[thedragonlady]

Ok, you need a bucket,mixing spoon, feed, water, and braggs apple cider vinegar with mother (very important). The ACV is about $6 in the organic isle of the grocery. Put 2 days worth of feed in the bucket, cover with water and mix. Make sure you have enough water, the feed fluffs. Then add 3-4 Tablesoons of the ACV and stir. You have to stir it a couple times a day, then when it starts to bubble it's ready to feed it to them. Mine took about 3 days. If you find a warm place in your house it won't take as long. Scoop and drain what you need, letting the liquid stay in your bucket. Put more feed in the bucket, adding water as you need it to cover the feed, making sure it's mixed well. I feed mine 3 times a day, sometimes 4 if they get real chirpy.

If you'll add some Quaker rolled oats to fermented medicated chick starter, your babies will grow up with bigger bodies. I start adding oats at one week of age.Watch them gobble it up !

 

[Crafty chick]

Good idea! Then in 6 mos. I can stand them beside the ones I didn't feed it to, and compare.

 

[kada6305]

maybe you can help me ! I am clueless of what I got from TSC (no surprise there) I got Sunny out of the mixed pullet bin. she could be one out of like 4 breeds but only 3 breeds i remember is RIR (no) Leghorn (maybe) Buff orpington (maybe) is she a Buff? maybe someone on here can tell





If I need to I can get more/better pictures of her. this was right when we got home

 

[cbnovick]

If you'll add some Quaker rolled oats to fermented medicated chick starter, your babies will grow up with bigger bodies. I start adding oats at one week of age.Watch them gobble it up !

Mine love the steel cut oats as well...I have been adding a bit of sunflower oil or raw coconut oil too....they 'gobble' it up!!!