The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[City Chicken Lady]

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Congratulations! Geat job!

 

[rebel yell]

Here are some of my young ones comming on:

 

[fifelakelooper]

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How old are they?? Very pretty for sure.
Do English Orp roos mature later than other breeds? My big boy Max is 5 1/2 months and I have yet to see him interested in the girls. No one leg hops...no chasing....is he dense or slow to mature?

 

[galanie]

I'm going to stick my neck out here and show my babies from Roger's part English. They're 3/8 English, not full, but regardless I'm rather proud of them. They are 12 weeks (or 3 months old) this week:

The buff hen is a hatchery bird that is my best broody. As you can see, at 3 months they are as big as she is. The little splash is actually a bit bigger.

I'm hoping the two blues are pullets but I'm not sure yet. I'd rather have full English but my pocketbook doesn't allow that. In the meantime, even if I never get any, I can still breed and cull and get a nice bird with a start like this, I think. I have some APA breeder blacks that I had planned to breed with them but who knows, I might get more part English instead.

They are astonishingly "tame" for birds that have never really been handled much. I let the broody raise them and she is almost over protective. I can catch them with little effort, unlike my other broody raised birds. I just love these guys!!

 

[rebel yell]

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Galanie, I so glad your happy with them, they are looking very good, Please keep me posted on how they are doing.

 

[rebel yell]

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How old are they?? Very pretty for sure.
Do English Orp roos mature later than other breeds? My big boy Max is 5 1/2 months and I have yet to see him interested in the girls. No one leg hops...no chasing....is he dense or slow to mature?

The pullets are some where around 4-5 months, Im just guessing I would have to go through my records to find out for sure, & the rooster is pretty close to the same, Orps. mature slower than other breeds it seems to me, but well worth the wait, give it time he will come around.

 

[spish]

as promised on the other orp thread..here are some pics from my european orps

 

[aveca]

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Congratulations! Geat job!

thank you guys! a summers labor of love..looking to buy some more birds for next year..out shopping around already..we had not such good luck this year with the aussies...so left the breeding to the breeders this year....i had no hens to go with a very good rooster and it showed..I love to get ready and all of the nit-picking of getting ready for show..if it wasnt for some truley great people, it would have been another year of waiting and shopping..good aussies are rare as hens teeth and they just dont give them up..the orp breeders of imports, and good US strains to the rescue. the birds are spoiled..enjoying thier pasture, orchard turn out now..off to go look for some more. thanks again!!!!

 

[jeremy]

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Beautiful, beautiful birds. I would LOVE to have any of them here in the States.

Is your Lavender hen also Barred?

 

[spish]

erm i think she is.......her father was a cuckoo orp, her momma a lavender....she hatched out as a stripy lavender (i presumed the stripes came from her father?) and her brother was a gorgeous cuckoo roo pictured)