Gold Laced Orpington- For Learning and Sharing

[orpingcrazy]

New cockbird... he's young, but has unreal and extremely bold lacing. Hoping his chicks follow suit!

Beautiful color and lacing

 

[marierod]

I love them I have six sexlinks and two golden laced orpington chicks . I can't seem to find some information about when they lay their eggs and stuff like that I find a lot of info about their coloring and their origin can anyone give me some basic 101 thank you

 

[kidcody]

Beautiful color and lacing

"Simply Beautiful coloring! perfect example what this color should look like!"

 

[orpingcrazy]

some of the 6 1/2 month old growouts. Color needs some work but like the type for this age.

 

[orpingcrazy]

I love them I have six sexlinks and two golden laced orpington chicks . I can't seem to find some information about when they lay their eggs and stuff like that I find a lot of info about their coloring and their origin can anyone give me some basic 101 thank you

Being a bigger slow maturing breed they can take longer to start laying. My oldest was 8 months but they can be typical at 6 months. Someone else here might have different experiences.

 

[marierod]

 

[marierod]

One of my girls the smallest of the bunch is so mean not just pecking but like attacking I'm afraid she's going to hurt the new girls it's been a week and they will not accept these two yet..

 

[orpingcrazy]

One of my girls the smallest of the bunch is so mean not just pecking but like attacking I'm afraid she's going to hurt the new girls it's been a week and they will not accept these two yet..

Theres a lot to adding new birds into an existing flock. You should have them set up next to the flocks pen for a while. Yoy can also rotate pens at night and add them in on new territory. You can also seperate that dominate hen when you do for a feq days. Theryre going to have to figure out the pecking order but by removing the dominate hen and changing territories it might help.

 

[marierod]

Ok right know I keep the new girls inside at night it's still a bit cold and they are young , plus I'm scared the girls will attack them I don't wanna coop them up together ...Oh well theyay have to live inside lol jk thanks for the advice

 

[marierod]

How big does this breed get