The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[Blarneyeggs]

Blarneyeggs I am so sorry about your damage and the loss of your beautiful hen.  Somehow is always seems to be the best ones.  Pray your able to have another just like her.

I really appreciate this. I'm praying too.

Me too blarneyeggs, so sorry to hear..

awww I am soo very sorry to hear that.

X three ! Was it from the heat ?

Thank you guys.


Not the heat. It was 'a series of unfortunate events'. We had extremely high winds that blew the run door closed before the chooks got in for the night, Tornado warnings so we had the garage available to the LGD who took cover from the torrential down pour in there. I assumed the teenager put the chooks to bed as the run door was closed. As it was, they spent the night outside without our Great Pyr and a predator got them. I should have braved the storm and taken a closer look with a flashlight and am now paying the price for my laziness.

I am focusing on the good, which is...the problem was with me, and not a hole in the run. And our best broody, a mutt who follows me around everywhere, was spared. She looks as if she is missing an eye, hard to tell with the wound and swelling but I'm grateful to still have her.

 

[rockinpaints]

I really appreciate this. I'm praying too.


Thank you guys.


Not the heat. It was 'a series of unfortunate events'. We had extremely high winds that blew the run door closed before the chooks got in for the night, Tornado warnings so we had the garage available to the LGD who took cover from the torrential down pour in there. I assumed the teenager put the chooks to bed as the run door was closed. As it was, they spent the night outside without our Great Pyr and a predator got them. I should have braved the storm and taken a closer look with a flashlight and am now paying the price for my laziness.

I am focusing on the good, which is...the problem was with me, and not a hole in the run. And our best broody, a mutt who follows me around everywhere, was spared. She looks as if she is missing an eye, hard to tell with the wound and swelling but I'm grateful to still have her.

Oh my gosh. That is so sad! I am so sorry for your loss. Glad the family is all safe, just sorry you lost your feather friends though

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[Blarneyeggs]

Blarneyeggs,
    Feel free to PM me and I will give you some replacement chicks.   Harry
Or eggs which ever you would prefer.

Harry, this is super nice. You're the best.


Nellie, yes, sad. I'm a little wiser for it. If DH would let me, I'd be sleeping out there with the 22. He thinks my aim is off and I might 'accidentally' get him instead.

 

[rockinpaints]

I paid $1,000.00 for the pair. A John Brandon from Southernpoultryfarms.weebly.com sold them to me as 8 month old large fowl crele -cuckoo orpingtons from Greenfire farms and Priscilla Middelton English breed orpington. I almost fainted when I opened the box and saw this pair. I really got duped. They are considerably smaller then my 5 moth old English orpingtons and look nothing like an orpington.

They are very pretty birds but I do not believe they are English Creles

. They look more like a USA project as they appear to be missing the Partridge (brown red). I worked on a similar project for a couple years. Last year after I imported some English Orps and as the imported creles began to mature the difference was obvious ( a couple of the gene nuts here on BYC tried to tell me - in a kind way of course

- what they were missing as I had posted lots of pics on here) I am posting a picture of the English Creles here for comparison.

I ended up culling the entire line of project creles when I lost the only project roo I had and the English Creles were getting close to laying age. I believe the birds you have are a good start, but in my humble opinion not what you thought you were buying. Sorry that happened. Hope this information was helpful.





Below is a picture of my crele orp project roo from last year

 

[blipit007]

They are very pretty birds but I do not believe they are English Creles

. They look more like a USA project as they appear to be missing the Partridge (brown red). I worked on a similar project for a couple years. Last year after I imported some English Orps and as the imported creles began to mature the difference was obvious ( a couple of the gene nuts here on BYC tried to tell me - in a kind way of course

- what they were missing as I had posted lots of pics on here) I am posting a picture of the English Creles here for comparison.

I ended up culling the entire line of project creles when I lost the only project roo I had and the English Creles were getting close to laying age. I believe the birds you have are a good start, but in my humble opinion not what you thought you were buying. Sorry that happened. Hope this information was helpful.





Below is a picture of my crele orp project roo from last year

They are beautiful!

 

[iokra]

Thank you for your reply. I knew they where not orpingtons the second I opened the box, they don't look like orpingtons, they do not behave like orpingtons either. They are incredible small, (half the size of my 6 1/2 months orpingtons) they are fast and flighty and aggressive, nothing like my slow, heavy and friendly orpingtons. I should have known, seller had no address, phone number, nothing on the web site but small, unclear pictures. Horizon box with chickens had a PO box as a return address. Chicken community, please be aware when buying birds, some breeders are not honest and would do anything for easy money, including laying to you.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Iokra- do they have the dark eyes?

Did you pay them with Paypal? I wonder if you have the buyer protection.
One time I had to open a dispute on some eggs were not the variety I paid for. It wasn't completely obvious until the chicks were a few weeks old. Ebay tried to say it was over 30 days, but with hatching eggs sometimes you don't know for a month! I finally ended up settling with a partial refund because I actually did have "birds in hand".

 

[iokra]

Yes, I paid with paypal. I did open a dispute. They do have buyers protection for items not as described, but the seller states they are crele orpingtons. That's why I need all your opinions, maybe I can show paypal the thread. I doubt anybody working in the dispute department at paypal would know anything about crele orpingtons

 

[Goose and Fig]

Oh good. I hope you get some money back.
You're right- I doubt they know too much about them in the call centers in India.

 

[aveca]

I really appreciate this. I'm praying too.


Thank you guys.


Not the heat. It was 'a series of unfortunate events'. We had extremely high winds that blew the run door closed before the chooks got in for the night, Tornado warnings so we had the garage available to the LGD who took cover from the torrential down pour in there. I assumed the teenager put the chooks to bed as the run door was closed. As it was, they spent the night outside without our Great Pyr and a predator got them. I should have braved the storm and taken a closer look with a flashlight and am now paying the price for my laziness.

I am focusing on the good, which is...the problem was with me, and not a hole in the run. And our best broody, a mutt who follows me around everywhere, was spared. She looks as if she is missing an eye, hard to tell with the wound and swelling but I'm grateful to still have her.

So sorry to hear that Blarneyeggs....husband did that to me one year, he closed the door on a coop, didnt lock it..next day found a tattered but still alive rooster..he had tangled with a racoon, must have been a young racoon..I told husband please make sure the latches are all locked as racoons have hands and are strong...ever since then I go out turn the lights on and check everything...

super nice of Harry to help out..sorry I dont have same kind to help with..