The BANTAM ORPINGTON Thread

[Faraday40]

Cookie's still sitting on those eggs. Gotta love her determination.
2 more weeks to go!

 

[drumstick diva]

Peanutsmomma, I thought you just had BRs.

 

[Honora]

Cookie's still sitting on those eggs. Gotta love her determination.
2 more weeks to go!

Go cookie!

 

[jeremy]

Assuming different breeders have different traits in there birds and I'm looking for broodyness, maybe I shouldn't buy eggs from you. Although your birds look very nice.

@farmhand , my birds are also very young, all under a year old. I'm probably just being impatient, I'm sure they'll want to mother with time. Broodiness is something I'll definitely be breeding for in my line. That said... as soon as I'm ready to start hatching eggs, they'll all probably stop laying and want to hatch chicks!

 

[farmhand]

Assuming different breeders have different traits in there birds and I'm looking for broodyness, maybe I shouldn't buy eggs from you. Although your birds look very nice.

@farmhand
, my birds are also very young, all under a year old. I'm probably just being impatient, I'm sure they'll want to mother with time. Broodiness is something I'll definitely be breeding for in my line. That said... as soon as I'm ready to start hatching eggs, they'll all probably stop laying and want to hatch chicks! 

I had second thoughts about what I stated after posting that. My apologies for speaking before I engadged my brain.

 

[Peanutsmomma]

Peanutsmomma, I thought you just had BRs.

Hey drumstick diva! No, I have two bantam chocolate orps too (1 pullet and 1 cockrel). They are my little chocolate kisses.

 

[Peanutsmomma]

Cookie's still sitting on those eggs. Gotta love her determination.
2 more weeks to go!

Thanks for the Cookie update, I was wondering how Queen Cookie was doing. How many are in her clutch?

 

[Faraday40]

Thanks for the Cookie update, I was wondering how Queen Cookie was doing. How many are in her clutch?

When it started she basically sat on whatever was in the nest at the time. 7 eggs. DD wants a controlled experiment (eggs from the same source, started at same time, etc) to compare broody vs incubator. We swapped out Cookie's orig 7 for the eggs we bought. Then I just couldn't toss Cookie's eggs she had stolen - especially when 6 had dancing embryos inside. I popped those in my back up incubator & they'll hatch on Easter. DDs experiment will hatch April 12.

Candled the incubator eggs last night & most have veining. Hope Cookie's are doing as well. (We'll probably only candle those once since I don't want to disturb her.)

It was 17'F yesterday morning when I checked on Cookie. Didn't seem to matter much to her. To help, I moved a small dish close to her & a chicken nipple right above her head. She seemed to like not having to get off the eggs. So even when she's stuffed in a box in the garage, her servants still do her bidding.

 

[Peanutsmomma]

When it started she basically sat on whatever was in the nest at the time. 7 eggs. DD wants a controlled experiment (eggs from the same source, started at same time, etc) to compare broody vs incubator. We swapped out Cookie's orig 7 for the eggs we bought. Then I just couldn't toss Cookie's eggs she had stolen - especially when 6 had dancing embryos inside. I popped those in my back up incubator & they'll hatch on Easter. DDs experiment will hatch April 12.

Candled the incubator eggs last night & most have veining. Hope Cookie's are doing as well. (We'll probably only candle those once since I don't want to disturb her.)

It was 17'F yesterday morning when I checked on Cookie. Didn't seem to matter much to her. To help, I moved a small dish close to her & a chicken nipple right above her head. She seemed to like not having to get off the eggs. So even when she's stuffed in a box in the garage, her servants still do her bidding.

Cookie doesn't have owners she has staff! To quote a famous cat saying.

I cannot wait to see how everything turns out with her chicks.

 

[Honora]

A couple of pics of the chicks in their new brooder! They are 3 weeks old now.

2 big boys in the front:




Blue chick photobomb!