The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[TNBEARCHICK]

We are working on a new coop set up with a central operation center to house 16 breeds of chickens.

 

[piglett]

Lovely coops, Deek. I am indeed a new egg, and unknown to you guys. Further, I've just gotten a tiny incubator (brinsea mini advance) and I live in an area zoned against roosters. I have just hatched my first English Orphington (just the one, and one other egg hatched..a red sex-link). I don't want to highjack the converstaion here, but with permissions, I am itching to post a pic of my new English blood lines Orphington hatchling, and I would be all ears to any comments and evaluations of the little guy. Thank you, I've enjoyed reading through this thread, and I LOVE the big gals. The hatchling will be my first.

welcome MaHen

if you end up hatching a boy you can always give him away or if you wish to learn something new make him a capon



good luck

piglett

 

[piglett]

This is such a fabulous thread! I love looking through all the pics....such beautiful birds!

I have a gender question. I've tried searching and can't find an answer, so I thought I would put it to the English Orp specialists. We have 7 English Orps we hatched on Easter. They are now 3 weeks old. We had very bad luck with our Ameraucanas (ALL cockerels), and are now worried about our EOs. We can only keep 5 hens, and would like to be able to add any additional pullets soon before the age difference gets any greater.

We know that EOs are hard to sex. We've heard that with cockerels they will feather in slower (only one has feathers on its back right now, the rest are downy on their backs, wing feather leangth and fullness is pretty much the same on all but feather-back). We've also read that waddle size and color can help determine sex. Can we use that on such young birds? None of them have hanging waddles yet, but they have a light rosy cast to them. Will pullets' waddles stay strictly yellowish, with no pink coloring?

OR....are we just going to have to be patient? And if so, HOW patient? 1 week patient? 3 weeks? 3 month? If the experts tell us that these little buggers can be cockerlish or pulletish and then change at 6, 8, or even 12 weeks then we will put on our waiting hats and just...well, wait.

Also, would pics help?

Warm regards!

i go be waddle color & feather shape

 

[CarsonOrps]

Does anybody know of anybody who breeds ENGLISH buff orps in middle Tennessee?

 

[juststruttin]

I just got my shipment of BBS Orpingtons from Heirloom Orpingtons AKA Hardin Poultry yesterday. Fortunately, they all made the trip from TN to CA and are happy and healthy. Thank you Holly & Jonathan for the beautiful and healthy chicks!

 

[rockinpaints]

I just got my shipment of BBS Orpingtons from Heirloom Orpingtons AKA Hardin Poultry yesterday. Fortunately, they all made the trip from TN to CA and are happy and healthy. Thank you Holly & Jonathan for the beautiful and healthy chicks!

Pictures please

 

[DCchicken]

Pictures please

I also got a shipment of Jubilee from Heirloom yesterday.


They are just about to go into their grow out brooder.

 

[rockinpaints]

I also got a shipment of Jubilee from Heirloom yesterday.


They are just about to go into their grow out brooder.

Awwww, they are so cute!

 

[megalomaniac]

here's the coop/ run that I rotated chickens out of... tilled the run and planted it in turnips and ladino clover. Since I cannot allow my chickens to free range this time of the year (planted garden- they have destroyed it in the past ), I've got them a nice spot to feed on high protein greens for optimum health and egg quality

hmm.. photobucket link seems to not be working

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Is this a pullet or cockerel partridge orp? Looked like a cockerel to me but has a lot of pattern in the feathers like the hens?