Sue, those Orps are very pretty, too! You know, I am torn about my Brahmas. I love, love, LOVE Bash and those girls. They are so pretty, but I have had nothing but issues with crops with several of them. Bailey's is again sluggish. She is finishing her molt and is skin and bones. (for that matter, MaryJo, Atlas's daughter, is finishing her molt and is also nothing but a bag of bones. Her crop was slow, but it's fine now-she just isn't eating).
Just like the Blue Orps, these big birds have had crop issues
way too often.
I want more than one breed running around here, even with a mixed single flock and I was trying to think which one I've had that had zero issues, at least for most of their lives. The true Ameraucanas and the Easter Eggers have been easy keepers, though their eggs are not as regular nor as large as any other birds here. I mean, Snow is 10 1/2 and Gypsy will be 11 years old next month. They don't lay anymore, but have never had crop nor egg problems that I recall. With the BR rooster, they'd make some nice barred EEs. But, I need those old women to let go! They are not going anywhere, apparently.
