Can you tell me what color these ORPINGTON's R? >>>UPDATE AT 16 WEEKS

[Guitartists]

I have no idea what you all are talking about...and now I'm sooooooo intrigued!

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

humm I don't remember that post...can you link it for me or tell me what to search for. Did you tell me before and I just missed it? Prob! lol I'm like that! NOT ALL THERE! I hope he would be willing to sell me some

 

[Homegroanacres]

Quote:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=34900&p=18

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

Well...phooey! That leaves me out for running to pick chicks up, and he is SO close to me too

Oh well.

 

[EweSheep]

However someone told me that he does go to chicken shows and swaps, perhaps you will find him there! Usually he would sell his birds whatever he can not sell them on Eggbid.

Good luck!

 

[greenthumb89]

my friend that said she might be able to get me his contact info is an actual friend of his and they go to shows together i think, so he might make an exception for that hopefully. im probably going to contact him first before i tell hangin his number just to make sure.

 

[Western Chick]

Sorry guys, I've been on vacation this week and I've missed all the emails and posts but let me clarify a little bit.

First, the roo- Yes, severe frostbite. I mentioned this earlier when I realized the picture I had looked like a rose comb bird. We had a brutal winter and nothing I could do helped the freezing. Before the winter he had the most beautiful bright red comb I've ever seen. As far as the feet, they are slightly yellowish, certainly not bright yellow though. Otherwise everything about him, as far as I can see, is Orpington. The person I bought him from said he was and Orpington, I guess I just trusted him. Here's a better picture, let me know what you think:

The picture of the chicks on my website is just a bunch of chicks I hatched from ebay eggs last year. I don't even think I have any of them around anymore.

I think the one in the front was a porceline d'uccle.

I do have free range birds but they are kept separate from the blues. The blues are in a pen by themselves in the garden, 200 yards from the barn where the others are kept. On rare occasions a blue hen will sneak out of the pen but she's still confined by my garden fence. I've never seen any of the other roosters even close to the garden so any cross-breeding is highly unlikely.

If anybody hatched non-orpingtons from my orpington eggs, I'd really like to know about it. I'll be glad to send a refund if this is the case. All the chicks in the pictures look like chicks I've hatched from the same eggs and they're growing into orpington-looking birds.

I hope that answers all the questions. I'm terribly sorry for any confusion. Please, let me know if there are any other concerns.

--Kelly

 

[asher]

Poor thing with his comb, but he is still gorgeous!

 

[speckledhen]

Hey, Kelly, your roo is a BIG GUY!

Thanks for posting a close up pic of him. Do you have any idea what he weighs? I was wondering about the frostbite part and if I missed a previous post about that, so sorry. Boy, he really had it bad, poor thing! I always worry about my Suede's comb and the Barred Rock boys here in winter, but mine aren't usually all that bad.

 

[asher]

Cyn ~ I've always heard to slather them with vaseline, but I've never done it and I dunno how long you can leave it on for! hehe

Gah that boy is just beautiful, though! And even though he IS an orp, he's making me miss my Wyandottes! hehe (Yes, I'm crazy!)