The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[HenThymes]

Renie'sPeeps :

Very nice Julie

I know you will be soo glad when it's done and you can enjoy a long warm soak in the tub

I have been working my butt off doing yard work planting our veggie, flower gardens and mowing

Tomorrow.. Brad and I are building a grapevine treless. So far this yr.. I have added a cherry tree, black berries, raspberries, rhubarb, and grapes to the collection of etibles.. apples, pears, plums, strawberries, and blue berries. Next yr I plan to add currents and maybe mulberries

I have a whole bed of turnips planted that resenbles a chia pet. I see the Orps have been eyeballing it too.. that's ok cuz I planted enough for them too lol I bought them some poultry netting from Home Depot tonight... They are going to get to play in the grass tomorrow if the weather cooperates

WOW, your yard sounds like mine!

We have persimmons trees, 3 types of apples, two types of peaches, crabapple tree, two varities of blueberries, three types of grapes, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, rhubarb, asparagus, fig tree, pecans starts and sugar maples all growing.

This year I am trying my hand a growing some loofa too, and getting ready to transplant some honeysuckle vines tomorrow. I want to add a fruit cocktail tree just have been putting off purchasing it. I won't even get started with what's all in the garden, canning season is coming!

Here's some honeysuckle jelly I made a couple of weeks ago

Here's danelion jelly from last month

This is some of our grapes from last year, had more than I could keep up with

 

[BamaChicken]

Thanks everyone. It is great when It all falls into place. I have a miracle small garden this year. It has really been producing too. I too want to add some berry bushes and more garden. Just have to be able to stay here and work on it.

 

[jeremy]

Julie, you're going to have to put a small bed over in the corner of that bathroom for me, 'cause I'm moving in! Your bathroom looks better than my entire house!

Granted, it's a fixer... but that bathroom is beautiful. I really, really like the wainscoating. That's a touch we plan on adding here during renovation.

I took a few pictures today, nobody wanted to hold still so they're all a bit blurry.

Neville in all his rooish glory, he's around 6 months old now and acting like it. His hormones are raging and he pounces on everything in sight.

Alice was the only girl who stopped moving long enough for me to get a somewhat decent shot.

I'll try again tomorrow morning when I let them all out for some better pictures, they were all hyper tonight.

 

[Renie'sPeeps]

Hen.. lol I see you have been busy too

Never knew one could make jelly from honeysuckle or dandylions. Yes we have 3 crab apple trees and several kinds of blue berry bushes, 3 kinds of apples, 2 kinds of pears, 2 kinds of plums, 2 kinds of strawberries, 3 kinds of black berries, 1 golden rasberry, 2 kinds of rhubarb and 3 kinds of grapes.

Jeremy... i sure hope the splash babies I have hatched this yr look as nice as Neville..

Very pretty birds

 

[BamaChicken]

Wow, jeremy I can't believe how much Neville has grown. He looks to be wide boy. I look forward to seeing him a 1 yr and 18 months. You should have some awesome Orps from your cross of lines.
You can't imagine how awful that bathroom has looked for years. I have lived here 8 yrs with just a piece of carpet cut to cover the floor, no tub and shower that is the same shower that was like a cave. We tore out the wall. No door on the bathroom and no door or the walk in closet. Good bones though. I am so thankful. Maybe by fall we can start on the bedroom and take out two of the five windows and change the carpet to hardwood. Since we bought this place we do a major project yearly. We have replaced the roof, Replaced Central heat and air, finished the siding on the house cut about 15 large trees, put shutters on windows, built porch railing for huge front porch, replaced pump in pool, replaced vanity in other bathroom, Sheetrocked a bedroom Changed lighting in diningroom and Living room, built and roofed a porch that had fallen down on storage house/old original house to property. I could go on and on. We love living here though so can't complain. Didn't cost that much to buy and a great place to entertain friends and family. Grandkids love it. I want to have time to stay home and develop more flowers beds on the side of the yard and finish landscaping the front next to the porch.

And all that doesn't include the chicken pens that we have built.
BTW love the blue girls too.

 

[PepsNick]

Are you taking pre-orders for chicks this Summer, Jeremy?

 

[jeremy]

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No, pre orders can get too messy. I will however let you know when I have chicks available, most likely it will be in July after I hatch some babies for myself.

I'm taking a hatching break right now, I've had chicks in the house since February and I finally just got the last age group outside on the ground, so it's nice to have some quiet time with out the "peep peep peep" coming from the laundry room.

 

[PepsNick]

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No, pre orders can get too messy. I will however let you know when I have chicks available, most likely it will be in July after I hatch some babies for myself.

I'm taking a hatching break right now, I've had chicks in the house since February and I finally just got the last age group outside on the ground, so it's nice to have some quiet time with out the "peep peep peep" coming from the laundry room.

Thanks!

 

[gavinandallison]

Anyone have Gold Laced Orps in the NC/SC area?

 

[klf73]

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only place you can get gold laced is from Greenfire, that I am aware of. they are extremely rare. I am sure others will have them available next year but I am sure they will still be pricey....