Post Pics Of Orps/ Orpingtons HERE

[aveca]

those are some cute babies jenlynn4..pretty color.they do look like little boys..hope you do get a pullet or 2

a quick note to Jody, do you remember we had only 1 girl and 5 boys? we gave the extra boys to my husbands friend , he has a beautiful farm up north of us. he raises mainly burbon red turkeys i think they are a special order thng for market certified organic i beleive. but has 10 acres sectioned off with fencing in a huge pastrue for all of his birds...its a little chicken eutopia...he loves the big orpingtons..just to get his feet wet showing chickens, he took one of your boys out to a smaller show ..a late fair show up where he lives..he is walking around in a state of shock..he won champion english and reserve LF..his wife says hes been sleeping with the ribbons on his pillow..just thought you would like to know that..hes going to try and e-mail the pics to me this week..hes a happy man..i have a feeling those will be framed and hanging right where he can look at them every day..

 

[jenlynn4]

Thank you all! These are the most animated little things I have seen!!!! The remind me of little cartoon carictors with all the goofy things they do! I am really enjoying them already.

JEN

 

[latebloomer]

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boys or girls, they look nice to me

 

[Elinor's chicks]

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Thank You!!!

I'm new to chickens anyway, but I'm finding the Orps especially hard to sex. I see photos here of hens with really big combs and wattles - but maybe the question is when they develop those? I have one 7-week old that could never be anything but a pullet, but 2 others that started getting combs and wattles at only a couple of weeks. I re-homed one that continued to display roo-ish behavior, even though he hadn't crowed yet. The other one's comb and wattles aren't getting bigger, and they are pale unless the chick gets excited. That one is going to get some more time ....

If there is a "typical" development pattern in the Orps (I have bantams) it would be VERY helpful to have a series of photos to refer to.

 

[crazyhen]

Orpingtons are hard but they really look like boys to me. Gloria Jean

 

[cherylcohen]

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OOO I wonder what his mating with my mille fleur leghorns would look like?

 

[henney penny]

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Here is a buff orpington pullet and cockerel three months old

 

[jenlynn4]

awww how cute

 

[lildinkem]

Getting ready to show a few birds in 12 days at the CENTRAL INDIANA POULTRY SHOW here in Lebanon Indiana. I only have very young birds to show. As usual my birds like to molt at the least convenient time. So, I guess my better birds to show will be aroung 5 to 6 months old. I do not expect to win a dang thing. But, I will still be there with a small army of Orps.
Here are two I am taking. Their both around 5 to 6 months old. The Brown Red cockerel has really come into his own in the past few weeks. They grow so fast at this stage.
Hope to see some of you there at the show.

This boy is from a 1/2 Speckled Sussex & 1/2 Buff Orp hen bred to a BUSTOFF scrawny Black cockerel from last season who I was told looked more like an Australorp. As many know BUSTOFF is 1/2 AAA quality Buff orp & 1/2 Meyer hatchery, should have been Jersey Giant, wound up being part Ameraucana and part Australorp cockerel. So about 1/3 of this Brown Red is Buff Orp. THANK GOD for having some quality bird's genetics to make him as nice as I think he will be. So, for anyone who has a Scrawny narrow butt hen and want to breed her to a small Aussie looking cock, go for it IF they have some good genes!

 

[little blue]

here are a few pics of my orps will post more later not much time today