Lavender Orpington Thread

[Flaisure]

Hopefully Maui won't be too bad. What won my neighbors over (besides the eggs) was watching my daughter play with her pet rooster. She gave him wagon rides up & down the sidewalk, played dress up, and carried him like a baby doll. That EE roo had an awesome personality & accompanied me to many school programs, but his crow was too much for even me to bear. Although my neighbors never complained (and even encouraged), he was a spotlight telling the world we had chickens. We all cried when he left, but our current boys are great too. Just make it clear for your neighbors to talk to YOU about it if they are bothered. They may or may not have issues, and in the long run, giving up one rooster to keep the peace isn't all that bad.

BTW- We kept him for 16 mo. The neighborhood was so quiet when he left & I actually got 3 calls asking, "What happened to Brownie?"

That's awesome. I hope I can make it work. This is Maui right now. 11 weeks old.

 

[WVduckchick]

OEGB hen raising 3 lav orps and a bantam cochin. They will be bigger than she is in a couple more weeks!

 

[Flaisure]

OEGB hen raising 3 lav orps and a bantam cochin. They will be bigger than she is in a couple more weeks!
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So pretty!

 

[Faraday40]

OEGB hen raising 3 lav orps and a bantam cochin. They will be bigger than she is in a couple more weeks!
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You're going to have to take some fun pics of that. I love watching my sebright try to cover her giant English Orp chicks when they grow bigger than her (at only 3.5 weeks LOL) That hen is broody at the moment & hatch date is next Sat. Since she's too small for our rooster, her eggs are infertile. She must hatch more orp eggs of course!

 

[WVduckchick]

You're going to have to take some fun pics of that. I love watching my sebright try to cover her giant English Orp chicks when they grow bigger than her (at only 3.5 weeks LOL) That hen is broody at the moment & hatch date is next Sat. Since she's too small for our rooster, her eggs are infertile. She must hatch more orp eggs of course!
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I absolutely thought about your girl (that's "Trouble" right?) when I gave these chicks to this hen. She was originally sitting on bantam cochin eggs, but one day she got off the nest, and I saw an external pip! She stayed away for a while and I thought she was abandoning them, since it was her first time. So I gave those eggs to a broody cochin who hatched them. I left her with a few "dud" eggs I had removed from another hen, and she actually sat back down on them later. Well one wasn't a dud and it hatched a few days later.

The lav orp eggs, I transported an hour from my farm to my house (one already had an internal pip!), after my broody black split killed the first 3 hatchlings. I took the other eggs and brought them home to the incubator. One hatched the day after I brought them home, the same day that the OEGB hatched the cochin chick, so I gave the lav orp chick to her that night. 4 and 5 days later, the other 2 lavs hatched in the incubator. I didn't give them to her right away, because she had the other 2, and I was afraid she would reject the last 2. But I finally thought "what the heck", and I tried it, and she took them in!

 

[Faraday40]

I absolutely thought about your girl (that's "Trouble" right?) when I gave these chicks to this hen. She was originally sitting on bantam cochin eggs, but one day she got off the nest, and I saw an external pip! She stayed away for a while and I thought she was abandoning them, since it was her first time. So I gave those eggs to a broody cochin who hatched them. I left her with a few "dud" eggs I had removed from another hen, and she actually sat back down on them later. Well one wasn't a dud and it hatched a few days later.

The lav orp eggs, I transported an hour from my farm to my house (one already had an internal pip!), after my broody black split killed the first 3 hatchlings. I took the other eggs and brought them home to the incubator. One hatched the day after I brought them home, the same day that the OEGB hatched the cochin chick, so I gave the lav orp chick to her that night. 4 and 5 days later, the other 2 lavs hatched in the incubator. I didn't give them to her right away, because she had the other 2, and I was afraid she would reject the last 2. But I finally thought "what the heck", and I tried it, and she took them in!

Yes, that's our "Trouble!" I have a feeling your OEGB will be the same type of mama. Some broody hens won't accept more chicks after 2-3 days, but others accept all chicks at any time with open wings.

We have another (Named Oopsie) that adopted 35 chicks ages ranging from 2 days to 5 weeks. Thankfully hens can't count! Basically she hatched some & adopted all the incubator eggs. When I moved her into the Jumbo brooder, I already had 1/2 doz older chicks residing there. She didn't mind & by the next day, they too were snuggling under her. A week later, I decided to add my preschool chicks when the incubation unit was over. Then a local Kindergarten teacher happened to have one lonely only chick peeping inside her incubator. Although it was about 2 weeks younger than Oopsie's chicks, it had such a desire for life. I knew it would be better off in the big brooder than all by itself, so in it went. No problem! Most of Oopsie's chicks have been sold. I had another hatch last week, but Oopsie's down to 6 chicks & I feel she's in need of some time off.

 

[Faraday40]

Remember Cookie?


Well she's back in action!

 

[brshilling]

Pretty! Your EE must be carrying lavender also, to have produced that cute lavender chicklet! I'd love to see more pics of it. And the mother too.

1 month + in age now .. I'm thinking I only have one girl. Hard to tell on the EE mix which is the one on the far right ( group pic) and with the yellow accents

 

[Flaisure]

17 weeks old Maui. Rooster?

 

[WVduckchick]

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17 weeks old Maui. Rooster?

Yes, tail feathers dead giveaway.