Fairy Tail Farms English Orpingtons

[ColtHandorf]

So I guess I'm going to be raising Red and Buff English now...

Why sad, @KingB?

Is there a reason?

Yep...

Oh yes... A good one!

Pardon the terrible photos. It was a long day/night. I'll get some better ones today after work.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Oh, so the red is actually red? I thought it was going to be like red and buff silkies where they look pretty much the same.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Oh, so the red is actually red? I thought it was going to be like red and buff silkies where they look pretty much the same.

This male is so dark he's almost black. Very handsome. Hopefully I hatch some girls for him.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

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This male is so dark he's almost black. Very handsome. Hopefully I hatch some girls for him.

Oh those are handsome birds

 

[ColtHandorf]

Oh those are handsome birds

Agreed. Hopefully, he remembers to send me some pics of his breeders. Then I can have some decent photos to show.

 

[Faraday40]

@ColtHandorf

Those are going to make some nice breeding pens! So lucky you found them!

 

[ColtHandorf]

I hope so. Hopefully, the eggs hatch me some fat little girl chickens.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

Are the new whites going to help with your white problem? Or is it still going to take a little bit of extra breeding

 

[ColtHandorf]

Are the new whites going to help with your white problem? Or is it still going to take a little bit of extra breeding

It should rather neatly solve the problem. Once I have a dozen chicks or so I may put him over the SL pen as they aren't related to him and make Some Silver-laced split to Recessive Whites. Then I'll cross those pullets back to the Whites and have five or six bloodlines worth of birds. At least he and my hen now aren't related at all.

Here’s a horrible picture of the breeders. I had to blow the picture up a lot. But you can see how massive they are.

 

[ButtonHoarder]

*drooling because of gorgeous chickens, not because I want to eat them*