*Buff Orpington Thread!*

[mamatink7]

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They can't have: onions, white potatoes, asparagus, avocado, any caffeine to name a few.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

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Yes!
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They can't have: onions, white potatoes, asparagus, avocado, any caffeine to name a few.

Mine eat asparagus and onions...it might be bad for them, I do not know, but they eat the onions right out of my garden and I have given them asparagus.

 

[gypsy767]

Ha....! Mashed potatoes, asparagus and coffee grounds are some of my girls favorite things in the compost...never actually saw them eat onions but they disappear in the compost pile.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

Ha....! Mashed potatoes, asparagus and coffee grounds are some of my girls favorite things in the compost...never actually saw them eat onions but they disappear in the compost pile.

Yes I have to keep mine out of the garden or they will dig down to eat my potatoes. I lost 3 plants to them.

 

[cmarlowdrive]

My apologies, she is a Buff Brahma. I want a Buff Orpington. This is a daddy's girl. She loves him.

 

[WyandotteLove1]

Orp&oeflay

Bella and her mam

So ADORABLE!

 

[WyandotteLove1]

Ha....! Mashed potatoes, asparagus and coffee grounds are some of my girls favorite things in the compost...never actually saw them eat onions but they disappear in the compost pile.

Well, I bet you can guess pretty easy where the onions went.

 

[gypsy767]

Well, I bet you can guess pretty easy where the onions went.

Yes I can...my brood will eat about anything that doesn't eat them first...!

Woe be unto the wayward mouse that wanders into the run...they will make short work of it. I have also seen them eat small snakes. I think chickens eat about anything they want and if something is bad for them they seem to instinctively know to avoid it.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

That might be true. We have uncooked soybeans laying in several different spaces (grain trucks spill) but though my birds gobble up the wheat and corn they do not touch the soybeans. Another large factor I think is chickens have a very strong digestive system. Not much fazes them.

 

[WyandotteLove1]

My apologies, she is a Buff Brahma. I want a Buff Orpington. This is a daddy's girl. She loves him.

Buff Orpingtons are really nice birds. But I just want to warn you... one of my Buffy girls is EXTREMELY broody. That's probably the only con that I can think of.