The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[justuschickens59]

It was a beautiful, sunny day here today, so was out with the chickens and took some pictures. I didn't take as many as I normally do.

Portia

Nigel, Blueberry & Bluebonnet

Blueberry

Bluebonnet

Blueberry

Bluebonnet

Sirius

Hagrid

Hagrid

Octavia (with her dirty feathers)

Olympia

Clementine

 

[BamaChicken]

Joy they are all beautiful. I love that Sirius. Nigel is looking awesome to me. All the girls are gorgeous and Clementine is prettier than ever since her molt. You should be turning out some great looking Orps

 

[kathyinmo]

I love Hagrid! I always giggle when I hear the name Nigel. I don't know why. I just think your Nigel LOOKS like a Nigel!

I love them all, Joy! They just look fabulous! Glad you had a nice day. Send it my way, will ya?

 

[daytonfarm]

They all look amazing to me. But what I find really amazing is that you have grass, some of it is green. How did you miss all the snow?? I can't wait until we see grass again!

These guys hate the snow they walk out and look around and then go right back in their barn.

 

[tennesseeckn]

Wow, Joy. They all look fabulous, as usual. Hagrid is looking especially manly all of a sudden.

I have to confess that I did something stupendously stupid tonight. I was down at the coop, letting the guys free range while the weather was nice and church time snuck up on me. They were having such a nice time that I hated to put them up. I live five miles from church so I knew I would be gone a little over an hour and that they would go back into the coop and bed themselves down about half an hour after I left. Surely it's not worth the struggle of herding / bribing them back in and deny them of thirty more minutes of sunshine!

When I got home there was not a soul in the coop. I walked around back and there were nine huddled together on a board out in the open. I moved all of them back in and in the process found another group roosting on a pile of lumber beside the coop. I moved all of them in and started counting. I counted ten times before my mind registered that there were only fourteen there. I was missing one! I didn't have to look at leg bands to know that it was very favorite hen. The one that always comes over and sits with me whenever I'm stationary.

I raced back to the house and pulled DH away from the Super Bowl and we hit the woods. There wasn't a sound anywhere. We looked for fifteen minutes until I finally heard a rustle down in a little dip covered with a pile of dead wisteria vines. It was my little girl!!! I have know idea why she wasn't with the two groups. I have no idea why they weren't all in the coop when I got home. They didn't act skittish or spooked. They were hungry and thirsty, but otherwise completely normal.

I am completely reformed, now. I will never, ever, ever let them out of the coop and run without me right there with them. I aged fifteen years tonight picturing foxes, hawks, rogue dogs... I kept them all up past their bed times checking and rechecking them for injuries, really just needing an excuse to handle them.

They say confession is good for the soul...

 

[RedReiner]

Every time I go out to take pics. I get their butts lol. some blue fluff!

And Larry the Serama keeping watch

 

[hippichick]

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Look at the size of those girls next to that tiny little Serama. Now that's what I call a good size comparison pic! They're beautiful, by the way.

 

[hippichick]

Oh, almost forgot. I got my first Orp egg this weekend from my Joy Orps. And another today! They were 8 months old this past week. Seem to be right on schedule for Orps. I'm pretty sure it's from my blue girl. Her comb is much redder than the black girls, and I did see the roo mating her this past week. We shall see...

 

[RedReiner]

Thanks Hippichick

Larry is a B class to . I have one that just started laying this week too! the on the left in the top pic! I am eggcited !

 

[kathyinmo]

RedReiner ..... I just love that picture of fluffy butts!

I am celebrating ..... I got an egg from the English Orps pen today!