The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[TheNuttyChick]

Handsome boy you have there Bryce

 

[hecatesmoon]

I will probably wait until Spring, but I was wondering if anyone here would/ will be selling BBS and Lavender Orp hatching eggs. If so, could I please get your info to contact you when I'm ready to buy, price per dozen, location either here or by PM? I will need to have them shipped I'm sure.

 

[Chickengirl1304]

I will probably wait until Spring, but I was wondering if anyone here would/ will be selling BBS and Lavender Orp hatching eggs.  If so, could I please get your info to contact you when I'm ready to buy, price per dozen, location either here or by PM?  I will need to have them shipped I'm sure.  

Papabrooder has beautiful birds and sells them

 

[BamaChicken]

I just wanted to get some feedback on this guy he's 5 months old

Good color and looks like he will be really big

 

[aveca]

just amazing Julie..you out do yourself every year..huge blue!!! the baby buffs coming right along too..

I took a few photos today. I mainly wanted to post a pic of Turks cause he amazes me with his size. His type is not great, he has his flaws but his size at 8 months. He is probably the broadest chicken I have ever seen. His dad was big but he has topped him. I am going to keep him and see if he lives and how big he gets.

Irene a few of the buffs

 

[aveca]

really wonderful!

This is Turks granddaddy so here is the proof you can take a shorter but good typed Cock over a large hen and produce larger fowl. I put the son of Cock pictured here over a very large hen because he was larger and he produced even larger

 

[hecatesmoon]

Thanks, Chickengirl!

 

[BamaChicken]

Thanks Lynne

 

[jeremy]

Julie, is Turks related to my favorite cobby boy of yours? Is that guy still around?

 

[piglett]

DE will not keep Northern Fowl mite off your birds. They are nasty little red specs of what look like red pepper bugs, that can suck the life out of a bird in a hurry. I use Permethrin liquid and dust. After 50+ years with birds, I use what works.

i have never seen the red mites
i know i tore down a very old coop for a guy a few weeks ago
i started to see these tiny white things & they could fly
i started to itch!
i loaded everything into my trailer
as soon as i got home i removed all clothing
& hit the shower. i let my wife do what needed to be done in the coops
for the rest of that day.

i know my grandfarther used to tell me that hen lice can live for many years in a building
even if the chickens have been removed
he always had a problem with people putting chickens in a barn
(said they should be in their own coop)
knowing that if the birds got lice the barn would probably always harbor lice
which is a bad thing if you want to ever put other animals in there
or the next owner does.

i figues the old man knew what he was talking about due to the fact that he used to raise 25,000 day old chicks to broiler age.
i think the breed started with the letter V
this was back in the 50's ....way before my time



piglett