The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[kathyinmo]

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Hahahaha! Broody poo is as bad as an exploding rotten egg, I think! Congratulations veteran!

Very nice pictures, by the way!

 

[tennesseeckn]

And I thought it would be hard to find!! I was hunting all day yesterday and today, like it was Easter, then

EEEH... EWWWWWW...

 

[BamaChicken]

Beth that is a very fine boy you rehomed. He has really good color. I hope you can share a photo of him in about six more months.

 

[BLaBauve]

I sure will Julie. It's funny, after posting this I got an email from his new home that he was caught in the act today - he finally proved it!

 

[klf73]

just out of curiosity....what did the chocolate pair go for on bidbird? I forgot about it and missed the end...

 

[slybird353]

A whopping $1341.00 18 bids in the last few minutes of the auction sent the price from $561.00 to it close. It was exciting to watch. All the bidders where verified as was the availability of these birds. We have talked with both winning bidder and seller already and this auction is a done deal now. Congrats to all involved. You can view it here
http://bidbird.com/listings/details/index.cfm?itemnum=990723505

 

[Happy Chooks]

Tuffoldhen asked me to post pictures on my slow feathering girl.

Cheryl hatched some from Tuffoldhen's flock, and I was gifted 2 50% English Orps from her. At the time, the ugly ostrich was thought to be a boy - but it ended up she was just a really slow feathering girl.

This first picture is a few weeks after I got her and some more feathers came in. (roughly 8 weeks at this time) When I got her, she literally had no feathers between her wings down her back.

Bare neck still:

Lots of chick fuzz:

Her sister, for comparison:

Then this is 13 weeks:

Still not completely feathered in:

Size comparison with her sister:

5 months:

And at 8 months she caught up on size to her sister and is officially the swan:

 

[jeremy]

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Wow!

 

[tazcat70]

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Wow! Amazing!

 

[jimmythechicken]

our hatch is done an we have 8 happy little fluffy butts from renie's peeps.we are so happy with them.we cant beleive the diff between her chicks an our orps we hatch.they look like little bowling balls will post a few pics later today.my daughter is so excited to finally get some english she even went to the boston poultry show an would not buy anything said she was saveing up to buy more chicks from her i think she got the bug.lol