Consolidated Kansas

[checoukan]

Hawkeye, have you got your show bag all put together and ready to go to the show?

 

[maidenwolfx80]

I need info from someone who knows their buff orpingtons. My neighbor hatched a buff last may and it is supposed to be full buff but she has a little faint black edging on her tail. I thought they were supposed to be all buff no black at all. I may be wrong as I am not a buff expert lol, can anyone give me any insight!!!

 

[HEChicken]

Do you have a picture? Mine has some very, very faint black on the tail. She is more than 3 years old and now you can barely see the black but when she was younger it was more visible. What color legs does your friends BO have? Orpingtons should have pink legs. I have another hen who at first glance looks like a Buff Orpington. She was hatched from eggs I bought from a local guy when I had a hen go broody and he couldn't tell me what eggs I was getting since he had over 300 hens! Anyway, when she first started feathering out I thought she was full BO because she looked so much like my other hen, but there was something "off" about her. Then I realized it was her legs. She has yellow legs, so is likely a Buff Rock rather than a Buff Orpington. That hen has a little more black on the tip of her tail than my full BO.

 

[maidenwolfx80]

Ok let me see if I can get a pic of her and I will check the legs out. She comes to me for chicken help because I have been in chickens all my life and they are just starting but I just got my first BO last week lol.

 

[chicken danz]

I would call a buff orpington's skin white. There could be some slight black leakage as the original orpingtons were black. Sometimes people breed in the black and white orpingtons to keep the proper body shape. None of my buffs have any black at all in their feathers. Hard to say if it is purebred or not without looking at it. Checoukan probably knows the standard of perfection on those.
Wow Heather. Very nice coop! Yeah I think the rain will definitely run down that roof!!!

 

[maidenwolfx80]

Well she got the eggs from a lady in town who only has buffs but then again she bought her birds from a guy who buys from a hatchery and sells the chicks plus sometimes a bird will sneak in a pen with a few different breeds of hen and he has a lot of mixed breeds so maybe alittle down the line there. Or just that hatchery production thing going on. Who knows. She looks like my BO except for that black. It is more like when a black sharpie leaks thru the other side of the paper, so a real mutted splotchy black trim on the tips.

 

[cubbysan]

JosieChick,

I just wanted to tell you I am sorry what you and Lucie are going through, and I will keep her in your prayers.

I lost my first Great Pyr at 10 months old, he ran out of my house and under the wheels of my neighbor's dump truck. My neighbor did not even see him or know that he ran over him.

I am so glad that Lucie is being given a second chance.

When she is wearing her invisible fence collar, does it work?

I have two goldens on an IF and it works great. I do not have a Great Pyrenees, but want one badly because I didn't think the IF would work with them.

We had a coyote trying to play with my goldens yesterday, I am hoping she wasn't trying to lure them into the woods. Now I am wanting a Pyr even more.

 

[michelleml]

Well she got the eggs from a lady in town who only has buffs but then again she bought her birds from a guy who buys from a hatchery and sells the chicks plus sometimes a bird will sneak in a pen with a few different breeds of hen and he has a lot of mixed breeds so maybe alittle down the line there. Or just that hatchery production thing going on. Who knows. She looks like my BO except for that black. It is more like when a black sharpie leaks thru the other side of the paper, so a real mutted splotchy black trim on the tips.

My hens a few specks in the tail also the bigger hen has more

 

[chicken danz]

Does it really matter? If you aren't breeding for chicks or showing, I don't see that it would be a problem? Well as long as you didn't pay for a purebred chick or egg.
I am trying to get into the rare pure bred world of chickens, but I still produce some mutts here and there. If they lay or you can eat them they are still a good chicken.
Speaking of that I pulled out eggs from the incubator today that I can't remember where I got them. They obviously were a nest I found someplace and decided to incubate rather than throw out. There were maybe 18 eggs and every darn one of them is fertile. I had them marked to hatch on the 13th but I have one chick already and one that pipped so a hen must have been sitting on the eggs. I put them in the hatcher because I need the incubator space. I sure hope any later one still hatch. Too bad my shipped egg won't hatch that well.

 

[Trish44]

Danz, I didn't get to go to that swap in Missouri, it turned out it was too far from where we were going & my DH would have had a fit if I asked to go while we were there. His sisters were both there & he was wanting to see both of them. I also heard there was a swap in Joplin, but as usual we were just trucking right on through to get where we were going. We just got in about the time everyone was wanting to go out to eat supper Sat. evening. I won't be going to Yates Center either, he would have a fit if I drove all the way up there & didn't go to his marathon & honestly I don't need to be looking for any more birds right now anyway. I need to restrain myself until next spring because I just don't want to deal with chicks in the winter. I would just rather have them in the spring & I will be hatching a lot of eggs then anyway. Let me know how your Cream Legbars do, I may end up needing another pullet if this one I have doesn't start getting better.

Hawkeye, I didn't know they would even let you drive the route the runners were running on. I always just have to stand around waiting at the finish line & it's really boring waiting there for hours. I just don't think I'm going to go this time since it's just the half & my DH can get himself home fine. If he was doing the full one this time I would have to go because he's not in that good of shape when he gets done. He is usually sick at his stomach & sometimes throws up afterwards, I think due to his electrolytes being out of balance. Running that far is really punishing on your body & my DH isn't any spring chicken any more, although he tries to act like he is. I think this year he is starting to feel his age a little more, but he would never want to admit that to anyone, male ego & all.

I need to get out & unload the pickup so I can use it to get some more cattails this afternoon at Sunflowerparrot's place. Those things have worked out fine for the inside of my main coop. They just sunk into the mud out in the outside pens, but I'm going to put some more out there anyway now that I'm kind of closing in the runs more with tarps.