The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[Don Chandler]

Ok, just 2 more I have to give the girls equal time........

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It that a single or double barring gene?

 

[rockinpaints]

It that a single or double barring gene?

Hi Don, this generation of roos I believe are single barred because of their sire (now that is a long story......

). They are young so we have not raised any chicks out of them yet. Our hens are not siblings to these roos and all the hens are single barred.

 

[aveca]

OMG!!!!!!! A weasel! My biggest nightmare

. We had one reek havoc in our hen house years ago, it was horrible, it took forever to get rid of him! Last week the owner of grain elevator was telling me about a weasel killing 5 full grown broad breasted bronze turkeys just about ready to harvest.......

.......They are destructive little buggers!

They are the end all chicken destroyer..They can fit through tiny holes, especially young ones..like to attack while the birds are sleeping and almost always kill every bird.. never the ones you would like to give away either..eat the tail nub off and leave.. horrible little things..I had a run in with them this summer..after that ,we changed out all wire to thick guage 1 by 1/2 " holes. and a screen in the air vent as they can climb too..Now I have a good baby monitor out there too..If I hear anything funny. I go out and look to see whats going on... so no incidence since ..we have critter night and day cams everywhere but often weasles are so small they go unnoticed on the cams.. if those chickens even hear the weasles down over the hill..they go crazy..they remember that night..our neighbor at the bottom of the hill excavated a beautiful rock wall..that was where they lived..so they spread out in every direction..killed every bird in 2 neighbors chicken houses..we were the lucky ones, birds are seperated and some of the pens and windows already had that wire so they couldnt get it..they crawled up into the little window on the back of the baby A frame forgot that still had chicken wire over it..dragged one of the babys through that..hate those weasles..

 

[delisha]

Knock on wood, no weasels here..

 

[Twisted-Rooster]

The feet are a clue. The size of wattles is important help. but the tails are a better clue for me. The girls have perky little upright tails early, while the boys' tails droop down. The pointed hackle and saddle feathers mean MALE too. I look at heads a lot. The boys seem to have heavier more curved beaks. The girls have straighter ones. Post some photos!

You can't really tell in the pic but the feet on the chick to the right are larger then the one on the left and the tail feathers of the right one are down...the one on the left has a big spike on the tail feathers..pullet and roo or two roo's?....




Here's a pic of my splast pullet...Not much splash going on right now!!!!!!! I also hatched a splash roo....



The pic below shows 1 of 3 of these that hatched in the second hatch a week later with 2 blue english pullets,,,,They don't look like any of my other english orps,,What breed are these if not english orps? I might add they all look like Roo's,too..

One more pic of a I'm sure is a going to be a huge Roo.....He's looking at his feet saiding," I wonder if I will every grow into these..."

 

[thedragonlady]

Knock on wood, no weasels here..

Trust me you DO have weasels there! I know too many breeders from your neck of the woods who have had trouble with them over the years. Chicken wire is useless against them.

 

[thedragonlady]

You can't really tell in the pic but the feet on the chick to the right are larger then the one on the left and the tail feathers of the right one are down...the one on the left has a big spike on the tail feathers..pullet and roo or two roo's?....




Here's a pic of my splast pullet...Not much splash going on right now!!!!!!! I also hatched a splash roo....



The pic below shows 1 of 3 of these that hatched in the second hatch a week later with 2 blue english pullets,,,,They don't look like any of my other english orps,,What breed are these if not english orps? I might add they all look like Roo's,too..

One more pic of a I'm sure is a going to be a huge Roo.....He's looking at his feet saiding," I wonder if I will every grow into these..."

The blue in the top photo is probably a P, even though it has strange, almost sickle feathers, but round feathers in the saddle.Saw a p. like it recently though. That looks like a blue roo on the right. These are English? Who from? Maybe the breeder can help.

 

[rockinpaints]

Trust me you DO have weasels there! I know too many breeders from your neck of the woods who have had trouble with them over the years. Chicken wire is useless against them.

You are absolutely right! A family of weasels will inhabit a 5 acre parcel and you will not even know they are there. Their food of choice is rats and mice. They move in a rats den, eat the rat and line the den with the rats fur to stay warm.......When the rats and mice are scarce they will find a way into the chickens......

 

[delisha]

We do have weasels in WI. However, where I live it is thick with Owls, Hawks, and Coyotes. I think those are predators of the Weasel. I have rat wire on my coop thank goodness as a deterrent for the possums and raccoons. The wire is one inch square in the larges parts and 1/4 inch squares in the vents.

 

[rockinpaints]

We do have weasels in WI. However, where I live it is thick with Owls, Hawks, and Coyotes. I think those are predators of the Weasel. I have rat wire on my coop thank goodness as a deterrent for the possums and raccoons. The wire is one inch square in the larges parts and 1/4 inch squares in the vents.

We were living in WI when we had the run in with the weasel.........it's a long story or I would post it here (and it is not a good story unless you hear it all

). We even asked DNR for help getting rid of him (no help there......Just a "good luck"). But we finally did it our selves

!