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[Kelly G]

Okiedokie....just sent him an email.

From the looks of it, I may have to see about a second mortgage on our house!

Jeremy - do you have to trim your Orps in order for them to breed successfully?

 

[jeremy]

Okiedokie....just sent him an email.

From the looks of it, I may have to see about a second mortgage on our house!

Jeremy - do you have to trim your Orps in order for them to breed successfully?

Kelly G, I didn't trim any of my hens or my rooster last year and I still had excellent hatch rates. I do plan on trimming them this year though because they honestly seem to have grown back in more fluffy rear end feathers after their last previous. It's hard to believe but it's true. I've noticed after each molt my birds seem more and more lovely, with crisper more well defined lacing in my Blues.

 

[Kelly G]

What do you use, clippers or scissors?

....not that I have this problem yet (although my SLW are very, very fluffy).

 

[mshuey1]

hi ya'll I just bought my 7 Buff Orps and am so thrilled to have them!!! Am going to start reading from page 1 I want to learn everything there is to learn about this Lovely birds!!! Am looking also for some Gold or Blue Laced Orpington hatching eggs Please pm me!

 

[jeremy]

hi ya'll I just bought my 7 Buff Orps and am so thrilled to have them!!! Am going to start reading from page 1 I want to learn everything there is to learn about this Lovely birds!!! Am looking also for some Gold or Blue Laced Orpington hatching eggs Please pm me!

I will be selling pure English Blue, Black and Splash hatching eggs this spring, probably starting sometime in April.

 

[jeremy]

What do you use, clippers or scissors?

....not that I have this problem yet (although my SLW are very, very fluffy).

I plan to use scissors, I need to talk with a few more experienced folks about it but I've heard you can cut the feathers away or pluck them. I don't like the idea of plucking though.

 

[trailblazn]

WOW, I just ordered some chocolate orp chicks from Greenfire Farms. I'm Hatching out some chocolate/lavender, lavender, blue, black, splash Orp.
Can't wit to start this breeding....it will be fun with all these colors.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

Got a Bantam Chocolate Orpington rooster today. His name is Lil Don after my friend who gave him to me. I plan to put him with my LF Black Orpington hen (HinkyJC line) as soon as he is big enough to breed. He is about 10 weeks old. I will try and post some pictures of him tomarrow. So pleased to have him. My friend usually sells the cockerels for $150 and up. Since I wanted one so badly he gave me one of his little cockerels. He is a pretty nice looking boy actually. Course, he still has alot of growing to do.

~ Aspen

 

[lildinkem]

What do you use, clippers or scissors?

....not that I have this problem yet (although my SLW are very, very fluffy).

I was told to pluck one feather at a time to about a fist size area around the vent. Scissors you have to be careful. The quill has blood in them and when cut they can bleed. Plus if I was a cock it would feel like I would be breeding a porcupine. That is what Doug told me. And from my one time experience using scissors I did cut a feather that bled, then I immediately went to plucking to not have anymore bloody feather quils

 

[galanie]

I've done both. Plucking really is better but you might have to do it twice before they stop growing back in. He's right, with plucking you dont' have to worry about blood feathers. Treatment for a cut blood feather is to pull it out. So might as well pluck. Just don't pull more than a few at a time, you might tear the skin.