*Buff Orpington Thread!*

[sdunmoyer]

Thank you to @CuzChickens, @Wyorp Rock, and @MartinsPoultryfor all your thoughts and ideas. Appreciate the help and conversation. Have a great day.

 

[CP Chicken]

Does anybody know if Buff Orpingtons can live in harmony with silkies? I love the look of Orpingtons so much and I would really like to add them to my silkie flock, so if anyone here has silkies living with their buff Orpington then please share your experience with those two chicken breeds living together!! Thank you!

 

[PraiseGod]

 

[sdunmoyer]

It would be news to me if a feed store ever had an orpington that wasn't a buff. I love my two hatchery buff orpingtons, but they are not any where close to standard of perfection. I did have a black English Orpington that I bought from a breeder, but needed to rehome him because I am not allowed roosters where I live.

Don't get an incubator if you want to save yourself a lot of money, coop space, hatch-a-holicism. Lol Although really, breeding is a lot of fun! I've had fun expiermenting and I currently have white leghorn x buff Orpington in the incubator.

@CuzChickens
Too funny. My brother raises chickens i just started 7 months ago.Hestopped by a couple days ago. I was showing and telling everything chicken he hadn't seen yet. He said you're in deep gone chicken crazy addicted. Laughed and asked me when I'm getting a bator. As far as money goes I'm a do it yourself kind of girl if possible. I have coop 2 all planned for my new bantams. Converting old swing set and have scrap sheet metal and wood laying around.

 

[Flaisure]

Big Bertha 3 weeks old

 

[MagpieDucks]

Hi everyone. A buff orpington hen was high on my list of additions I wanted this spring. Fairly new to the chicken world I'm just learning lessons about buying chicks from feed stores out of tanks labeled with this or that and how that may or may not be the case. So anyway about 3 or 4 weeks ago I was at a feed store and there was a tank labeled orpington. I picked up a buff and a black and some others. Got them all home and set up. Quickly realized the buff was in pretty bad shape. Terrible pasty butt lethargic and very unstable. Cleaned them up and was pretty sure that one wasn't going to make it through the night. Luckily it was but all pasty again. So I did some other things to help. It took a few days but I got them all better including the buff. Now they're around 4 weeks. So here's the question...what are the chances that the black one is actually an orpington or is it more likely that she really is an Australorp instead? And also in my limited experience I think my buff pullet is probably a cockerel. Any thoughts or input is appreciated.

Hi everyone. A buff orpington hen was high on my list of additions I wanted this spring. Fairly new to the chicken world I'm just learning lessons about buying chicks from feed stores out of tanks labeled with this or that and how that may or may not be the case. So anyway about 3 or 4 weeks ago I was at a feed store and there was a tank labeled orpington. I picked up a buff and a black and some others. Got them all home and set up. Quickly realized the buff was in pretty bad shape. Terrible pasty butt lethargic and very unstable. Cleaned them up and was pretty sure that one wasn't going to make it through the night. Luckily it was but all pasty again. So I did some other things to help. It took a few days but I got them all better including the buff. Now they're around 4 weeks. So here's the question...what are the chances that the black one is actually an orpington or is it more likely that she really is an Australorp instead? And also in my limited experience I think my buff pullet is probably a cockerel. Any thoughts or input is appreciated.

Hmmm.. interesting dark legs, I can't tell from the picture.. does she have puffy cheeks? I f so I would say Easter Egger. If not you may be able to narrow it down due to the dark legs.

EE's don't always have muffs. I raised 5 and 2 had muffs 3 did not.

I agree your little Buff is most likely a cockerel.  The black one, like the others, I have never seen Black Australorps or Black Orpingtons offered in a feed store - Black Orpingtons usually bring in $$.  
It's possible (he?) could be an Australorp - yes, I'm leaning toward the black one being a boy too

My new chicks just came in yesterday and I have 2 BA in the batch, they have white wing tips. 

I'm not a breed or sex expert, so you may want to ask on the "what breed" forums.

Out feed store has Black australorps but I've never seen Black Orps their before. They buy from welp and hoovers.

She doesn't that's part of what was throwing me off. I'm not very experienced but I have a pair of 2 month old Australorps a female and a male I believe. They both still have the white here and there. Other than that and the odd shape of tips on certain feathers she looks a lot like the pullet did.

Could possibly be a black sexlink ive spent a little while breed hoppinng to try and help

Black sex link males are barred.



My guess is hatchery quality BA. My friend has one that looks like a black sex link.

 

[GoldyLizzy]

How can you tell the little BO is a cockerel?

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

How can you tell the little BO is a cockerel?

Big pink comb at that age.

 

[GoldyLizzy]

Thanks!

 

[caboodleschicks]

Does anybody know if Buff Orpingtons can live in harmony with silkies? I love the look of Orpingtons so much and I would really like to add them to my silkie flock, so if anyone here has silkies living with their buff Orpington then please share your experience with those two chicken breeds living together!! Thank you!

I have some BOs with my Silkie and they have been together for about 6 weeks and they're doing fine! My Silkie "loves" one of my BO roosters!