*Buff Orpington Thread!*

[speckledhen]

I have 4 buff's roughly 12 weeks old. I've noticed their faces starting to get more and more red in color as the days go on. Should I be concerned about something? They are all acting fine, eating, drinking, playing....just want to make sure.

That's just them maturing and getting closer to laying time, though it's still weeks away.

 

[Brookshire11]

I have 4 buff's roughly 12 weeks old. I've noticed their faces starting to get more and more red in color as the days go on. Should I be concerned about something? They are all acting fine, eating, drinking, playing....just want to make sure.

Yep, just babies growing up! Mine are 16 weeks and still get redder everyday

 

[Johnn]

Just when I thought the Bella situation couldn't get worse, the hens just had to prove me wrong. Daisy had decided to go broody and who's nest does she want? Bella's. Bella is just happily sitting infront of the pophole on nothing! I kicked daisy out and went to get Bella and she started attacking me so I grabbed her and shoved her back in the nest. This really isn't going to go well!

 

[conina]

Do sorry.

 

[Cheryl1948]

She looks just like my Buff, Rachael, who has gone broody AGAIN. I don't have a rooster and she sits in the nesting box on nothing. Every time I go down there, I gently lift her out and take her outside for treats, feed and water. My friend wants to give me some eggs to hatch, but time won't allow that right now. I have been burning up the highway back and forth to Va. to take care of my 93 yr.old Aunt and my husband has been on "chicken, dog and bee duty", so no time for a new experience. But, one day.

 

[Johnn]

She looks just like my Buff, Rachael, who has gone broody AGAIN. I don't have a rooster and she sits in the nesting box on nothing. Every time I go down there, I gently lift her out and take her outside for treats, feed and water. My friend wants to give me some eggs to hatch, but time won't allow that right now. I have been burning up the highway back and forth to Va. to take care of my 93 yr.old Aunt and my husband has been on "chicken, dog and bee duty", so no time for a new experience. But, one day.

Hatching chicks with a broody isn't time consuming. I only see mine like 5 mins a night except for weekends when I am there for an hour or two!

 

[Big Orp]

A story for all.


Last week some neighborhood kids found a small gosling. When I found this out I took it from them and went to the spot where they found it. When I could not locate the chicks mother I decided to take the chick to the lake, which is only about 50 yds from my house. I figured the chicks mother may had went back to the water and she would find her baby or it would die. Knowing that the chances for this gosling was slim I put it in the water and watched as it swam away. 6 days later I came across a family of geese, all the chicks about 5 times the size of the gosling I let go. As the mother and babies where crossing the road the mother had stopped and was looking behind her and out of the grass ran a baby gosling that was to small to keep up. I smiled I knew in my heart that was the baby I let go. It never found it's mother but found a mother never the less.

 

[Brookshire11]

A story for all.


Last week some neighborhood kids found a small gosling. When I found this out I took it from them and went to the spot where they found it. When I could not locate the chicks mother I decided to take the chick to the lake, which is only about 50 yds from my house. I figured the chicks mother may had went back to the water and she would find her baby or it would die. Knowing that the chances for this gosling was slim I put it in the water and watched as it swam away. 6 days later I came across a family of geese, all the chicks about 5 times the size of the gosling I let go. As the mother and babies where crossing the road the mother had stopped and was looking behind her and out of the grass ran a baby gosling that was to small to keep up. I smiled I knew in my heart that was the baby I let go. It never found it's mother but found a mother never the less.

 

[3goodeggs]

Yea! Good momma goose. I loved the story! thanks for sharing it!

 

[hockeydad6791]

A story for all.


Last week some neighborhood kids found a small gosling. When I found this out I took it from them and went to the spot where they found it. When I could not locate the chicks mother I decided to take the chick to the lake, which is only about 50 yds from my house. I figured the chicks mother may had went back to the water and she would find her baby or it would die. Knowing that the chances for this gosling was slim I put it in the water and watched as it swam away. 6 days later I came across a family of geese, all the chicks about 5 times the size of the gosling I let go. As the mother and babies where crossing the road the mother had stopped and was looking behind her and out of the grass ran a baby gosling that was to small to keep up. I smiled I knew in my heart that was the baby I let go. It never found it's mother but found a mother never the less.


 

Well done!!!!