The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[jeremy]

Beautiful Julie.

That Splash kid looks big already!

ETA: I love the age where it looks like they're wearing little breeches.

 

[BamaChicken]

Knickers age.
What are you growing right now Jermey. I haven't seen any pics in a long time. How are your pretty blue girls?

 

[PugBug]

Yaya don't remember if you saw this at the beginning of this thread but the first pic is of Charlie at 8 weeks. He took forever to feather in and I fed him all kinds of extra protein and so forth thinking it would help but it didn't. Some are just slower than others. I have one splash from Roger that is 2 months old and he has not feathered in and his blue and black sibling have. He looks like he will be larger though

Some of my bantam chocolates took a long time to feather too. The little roo was the worst. Poor little guy I thought he was going to stay bald!

 

[jeremy]

Knickers age.
What are you growing right now Jermey. I haven't seen any pics in a long time. How are your pretty blue girls?

Julie, I haven't hatched a single chick this year, believe it or not.

I never replaced Neville after loosing him last year... I feel like for a long time I lost my "will" to breed after losing my big boy, you know?

I've got the itch again though, after almost a year, I think I'll get back into it this fall. You and Roger will be receiving emails from me about hatching eggs or chicks, don't you worry.

I still would love some babies from that typey-cobby boy of yours, he was always my favorite.

School has kept me busy, and I decided not to take summer classes so I doubled up on my work load to make up for it. Getting back in school this fall and hatching chicks sounds like a good plan to me.

I don't think my ladies are minding the single life, their feathers have never looked better without a rambunctious roo around... It's been warm lately (warm in the Bay Area is anything over 80 degrees LOL) the girls have been enjoying the cool dirt underneath the trees.

 

[BamaChicken]

Yes the girls do look nice. I understand about being busy with things. I didn't hatch any last year and this year due to a long moult I got started later than I planned and hatched to many. I did some different groups of pairings and some I liked some not. I have more blacks hatched than any others. All the blacks from my black pen.

 

[flgardengirl]

Some of my bantam chocolates took a long time to feather too. The little roo was the worst. Poor little guy I thought he was going to stay bald!

I recently hatched out 5 bantam chocolates. I am thinking I have 4 girls and 1 roo. The 'girls' are fully feathered and the little roo has big bald streaks on his back and hardly and tail at all yet lol. The roo seems especially slow at feathering out compared to any of my other American type Orp varieties but then again these are my first English orps. They are the friendliest little things!

 

[Blarneyeggs]

Yaya don't remember if you saw this at the beginning of this thread but the first pic is of Charlie at 8 weeks. He took forever to feather in and I fed him all kinds of extra protein and so forth thinking it would help but it didn't. Some are just slower than others.  I have one splash from Roger that is 2 months old and he has not feathered in and his blue and black sibling have.   He looks like he will be larger though

So good to see this post again, and be reminded of how very much they change.

I have no BBS cock birds right now, I decided to hatch a bunch of my best and pick a cockerel from the offspring. As luck would have it, I got ONE cockerel and 7 pullets. I'm not happy with how he looks, but hopefully he fills in nice. They are only 9 weeks now,I guess time will tell.

Jeremy, my kids have been watching the Harry Potter movies and each time the character Neville appears, I think of that beautiful Splash boy that you lost.

 

[BamaChicken]

I look at the photos to remind me not to cull to quickly

 

[BantyChickenLuv]

Alright, here is one of the new bantam chicks I got. This girl is by far the biggest of all 10 except for one on the males. She's in that "awkward teenager stage"

 

[RedReiner]

apparently I have super hatchers... today is day 19 and I had to go somewhere this morning so when I got back I was going to lock down, take out the turner and add more water etc... I got home, they are ALL pipped or zipped and one hatched already... think they could have waited for me!!! soon as they are done, they are going out under the broody who ruined her eggs, day 27 for her. so she gets wet babies and egg shells shoved under her tonight. she will be soooo happy!! before she came here she was almost through a set when someone decided she didnt need to hatch any and smashed all her eggs, she was heartbroken and screamed for 2 weeks. I let her set on a few and she got off them and then went in the wrong box when I was not home so they didnt make it. she will be happy to have 7 to raise up now.,