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[SparrowSong]

Thank you! I get confused sometimes with a rooster named Big Mama and a hen named Old Yeller.

 

[Sonja73]

That is so cool! And she is pretty!

 

[cpatnode]

We have 3 Orpingtons 2 have started to brood. They still want me, (momma) to hug them and talk to them and give kisses. So sweet my girls.

 

[SparrowSong]

That is so cool! And she is pretty!

Thank you!

 

[melina90]

I wouldn't worry about a few black specks, especially if they are on the inside of the feather. If you show more of her in a picture I might be able to tell you how she would do in a show.

I love your signature!

Walt

I will see what I can do, gonna take the camera out for a spin later if the girls seem up for posing! Thx!

Jack Patterson said that a little pepper in the tail never bothered him. Doug said the best color Buffs he made, those birds as chicks would have a Black spot on their heads.

I've heard that too, about the pepper. Also, your birds are GORGEOUS!

About that black spot on the head... I've done alot of reading on buff orpingtons, and on sexing young chicks when I got my first birds. I remember one article that described a rare occuring sex-link kind of trait, a black (not really BLACK black, but dark grey-ish) spot on the head of a newlyhatched buff orpington chick means that the chicken is a pullet. I saw a baby chicken like that when I picked up chicks from one of the more experienced breeders in the area last season, and asked him about it - he said he had never seen it before and was keeping that chick just to see what it was all about. Turned out to be a pullet!

Are you orps any trouble mine ARE they eat my flowers hop my fences and drive meh BANNANAS

but they are SOOOO cute when I find them eating my zinnias there go cluuuuuuck cluck in a cute way

then I forget what they have done and I give them table scraps I also have some marans and some barred rocks so the barred rocks make up for the orps

so its barnyard party all the time with me chasing the orps with a rake and the marans following and hoping ill give them some food ( or enjoying the show)

either way its funny ( from your point of view

) LOL got to go chase some ORPS

oh no my Lilacs

My bantams are like that. My buff orpingtons are like the elephants of the chicken world. They don't really bother to go to any great length to get out, they just wag around where it's easiest for them. I can keep them in with a 80cm high compost fence! My other birds, not that easy...

We have 3 Orpingtons 2 have started to brood. They still want me, (momma) to hug them and talk to them and give kisses. So sweet my girls.

Wonderful! Are you going to let them hatch some eggs? I still haven't had any broodies in my orp flock, wich I find a little weird as the breeder of their strain is known to throw in some cochin every once in a while to keep the skirts more fluffy. I'm interested in getting a little longer legs on them though, and I'm not too fond of the broody trait - I have my bantams for that

 

[lildinkem]

Melina90 this hobby is about having fun raising birds. I think here we should share info that we acquire. If you have nice birds it is more fun. I do my best to better what I have. Some years I do not go forward. Some years I do. I hope you enjoy it as much as I. Thanks again for the kinds words.

I like this White from my single comb White Wyandotte hen from last season in with the 2 Pontious pullets and one of my other all White hens.





Some of the heads on these chicks are looking nice.







I like this lite Blue color.




The Darker Blue brother

 

[4H gal]

This is my hen June, she is setting in our cherry tree

 

[SparrowSong]

She is beautiful. So peaceful.

 

[Sonja73]

This is my hen June, she is setting in our cherry tree

Ha! I was just out checking on mine and noticed they have been munching on the blackberry leaves.

This is a cute picture. Does she eat the leaves as well?

 

[littlechicklet]

We just finished a coop for the buffs from Don & I got a few decent pics of them and one of my black chicks.

The buffs were hatched March 19th.



This is the black I call Tonka. He was hatched Easter.