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[Faraday40]

Cute chicks. I didn't know orpingtons came in all those colors. You are going to have some really pretty birds!

The APA doesn't recognize all the rare English orp colors. Mine are from imported English bloodlines - hatched from a CA breeder's eggs. I don't breed any of these orp colors, but I really really like the eye candy. It was by luck & generosity that I was offered all these eggs. I just couldn't pass them up! I am very grateful & excited to see how they feather out.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Happy Fathers day to all the Dads on our thread!

Spent Fathers day with Hubby putting in another pasture fence. This section will encompass the remaining back end of our property all the way to the farmers field next door, neighbor behind too.. And encompass up to the drive around the barn! We will have about 3 1/4 acres fenced once completed. Will run the goats in the new area first to wipe out any poison ivy etc. Found a few poisonous plants (poke berry) now removed.

Once all the pasture paddocks are completed I plan to get serious about LGDs. All my repaired coops are portable, and can be moved with my herds. The combination of goats, cows and a couple good dogs should take care of predator issues for good. we've settled on either Rottweiler or English Mastiff. Rotties have less health issues typically and they are my favorite breed. I do like the size of the mastiff, but they have a shorter lifespan.

 

[Nyla]

Ohh yeah, I went to the animal swap in Rensselaer today. Only one person had a pair of geese. I went there hoping to find some more Muscovy's. But sadly no one had any. Lots of chickens, rabbits and one person with quails. And someone was selling gerbils. One person had a lot of white silkies. I kid bought one and started caring it around the place like a puppy. SO cute. Another thing was the sebrights. Super tinny tiny chickens. The man selling them had an egg in the cage with them to show how their eggs look.

 

[MrsAuberry00]

Saddle feathers on boys are going to be very thin edged and sword like. On girls, they're round, regardless of breed. Hackles, for whatever reason, tend to be pointier in some breeds and individuals than others. A rooster will still have sharper looking hackles than a hen, but "pointy" can be hard to judge in especially young birds.

How dark are the combs and wattles on your other pullets? This one might just be coming into lay and therefore darker for that reason. The feather pattern is certainly dark enough to look like a pullet to me, but I've only raised one barred bird.

One of my RIR hens we got at the same time has an equally dark comb and wattles, but she's larger than this one and seems to have all her grown up feathers.

 

[Finnie]

The APA doesn't recognize all the rare English orp colors. Mine are from imported English bloodlines - hatched from a CA breeder's eggs. I don't breed any of these orp colors, but I really really like the eye candy. It was by luck & generosity that I was offered all these eggs. I just couldn't pass them up! I am very grateful & excited to see how they feather out.

That's wonderful about getting those eggs, and that they hatched, coming all the way from California. I considered buying hatching eggs from Oregon, but then chickened out because they were pricey and would have been my first shipped eggs. I got some shipped from a closer state instead, and they were mostly all growing, but then my digital controller went haywire and I lost them all. Very glad it wasn't the pricey eggs!

Ohh yeah, I went to the animal swap in Rensselaer today. Only one person had a pair of geese. I went there hoping to find some more Muscovy's. But sadly no one had any. Lots of chickens, rabbits and one person with quails. And someone was selling gerbils. One person had a lot of white silkies. I kid bought one and started caring it around the place like a puppy. SO cute. Another thing was the sebrights. Super tinny tiny chickens. The man selling them had an egg in the cage with them to show how their eggs look.

Did that Facebook Muscovy ever pan out?

 

[Faraday40]

Here's what hatched from the blue laced orp eggs. They look so different from ea other.

Here's a blk/lav split (has some purple food color on belly to mark it)

The blue/Buff Colombian Orp.
Because I've been breeding the lav orps, it's been 2-3 years since I've even seen a yellow fuzzy chick. It's adorable! I never had a buff orp before.

Also: To keep them broody & willing to adopt my chicks, i slipped a few eggs from my own flock under both Cookie & Trouble.

Trouble is still waiting for her 2 eggs to hatch..... but I heard them peeping this morning.

Cookie's 3 eggs hatched yesterday & last night.

The one on left is actually Cookie's biological chick (with a young lav orp or maybe even Spitzhauben father) Cookie's a bantam, so her eggs have never been fertile before..... My adult orp roos are just too big.
The other two chicks came from lav orp hens (with Brick as the daddy), so a boy in middle & girl on the right.

 

[Finnie]

I thought that one on the right looked to be chocolate!

 

[Huggie5]

Hi, I'm Judy from down south in Charlestown. I have 24 mixed breed hens only. Hoping for eggs soon. They're about 20 weeks old now.

 

[kanina]

Hi, I'm Judy from down south in Charlestown. I have 24 mixed breed hens only. Hoping for eggs soon. They're about 20 weeks old now.

Welcome to BYC Judy!

 

[hbrown322]

I thought I posted this on Saturday, but it must not have gone through! Agrarian will be getting black frizzles next week, for anyone interested!!