The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[pickledchicken]

Just wanted to say I rather enjoy this thread and it's obvious good spirit of fellowship. I just mostly lurk in the shadows but love all the pics the EO's seem to be a breed that doesn't receive a lot of heavy critique. I really enjoy my EO's and the antics they are my rodeo clowns here at home, they offer very little in the way of wood working knowledge but insist that they see what dad is doing in the garage. You gotta love'em

 

[aveca]

fluffy butt is a doll baby..These are some wonderful people, caring breeders who want the best for the breed, and super nice as well..the birds do have a lot of personality..every year you come in here, it gets better and better..always a treat to tour the shows with the orp people..and the farms..

 

[Kiniska]

 Ms. Fluffy Butt enjoying the free time

 

Wow, she is a beauty!

 

[BamaChicken]

Bama.. There was probably florescent lighting in the building. They make taking accurate color pictures more difficult. She is a beauty

Irene in the building and in the top of that photobox. That must be what distorted. The box they have in Lake City doesn't have a light at all.

 

[delisha]

They had a picture box at the Panhandle show so I had one of the girls pictures made. It was a nice idea. I think the lighting needs some work as it washes out the color.. The pose was good though. You can see the good lacing.

very very pretty..

 

[klf73]

I need some help from my chicken friends. I have been absent from the boards as I have been dealing with some human/chicken issues.
I have neighbors that don't want me to have roosters, although I am zoned for it. One of my neighbors has taken it upon themselves to downsize my chickens. I haven't figured out which one, but I am getting some game cams today. Unfortunately they are only seen as "just chickens" by the local authorities. My most recent loss yesterday was a blue isbar cockeral. I found him near the pen door with his legs straight out as if someone had just grabbed him by the legs and smacked him off the ground. No rips or tears in the netting above and the pen door was shut. He has no injuries at all.

The first "loss" was my jubilee orpington pair

. Their coop was 4x4 so someone had opened the 2 different latches and reached in and grabbed them and killed them the same way as my isbar cockeral. I was thinking it may have been a raccoon at first but all the other chickens in the coop were fine and the critter could have easily climbed in and wiped the whole bunch out by climbing the wire inside. My husband set these latches up so a raccoon wouldn't be able to do both. They are different, require a different skill to open each and we never even have one opened(evidence of a raccoon even trying).

I have lost many other birds over the past few months and realize now that the animals I "thought" were responsible for the killing were just scavenging on what a human has done.

I would LOVE to set a few traps/snares but dh is afraid it may catch a child by accident. I get it but it doesn't take the anger away. The sad thing is that I know when we catch this person nothing will be done because "they are just chickens".

any suggestions?

 

[rebel yell]

They had a picture box at the Panhandle show so I had one of the girls pictures made. It was a nice idea. I think the lighting needs some work as it washes out the color.. The pose was good though. You can see the good lacing.

Julie she is beautiful !!!! Great English type !!!! Keep up the good work gal, I look to be back in Alabama for good within a year, hopefully sooner to visit, sure hope to see you then.

 

[galanie]

klf73:

Game Cam!! PLEASE install a game cam. If possible one you can monitor from in the house. Might be pricey but losing a Jubilee Orp pair? And the rest? OH MY! I'd be ready to kill. And I dont' mean "just a chicken." In addition, a lock rather than a latch.

 

[klf73]

dh thinks someone may have started out using a bb gun because the first losses were unexplained but I was losing hens as well, which wouldn't make sense.

a partial list of losses
cream legbar hen, english black orp pullet, american bantam black orp pullet, cream legbar juvenile trio, gorgeous crested swedish flower hen (pullet, but would look like a roo due to the size of her comb). I also have a chocolate bantam orp in my basement that seems to have sustained an injury to her leg? These were all big, fat, healthy birds. What I find interesting is that most of the losses are where my swedish flower hen cockeral is(the only rooster I have that crows just to hear himself). I only have 5 roosters here and it really is not loud at all. We did have a LOT of roosters before we downsized.

I don't think we are bad neighbors, really. We don't let them out till 8:30 and they are away by 5. They only crow a few times a day but apparently that is too much for them

 

[BamaChicken]

Julie she is beautiful !!!! Great English type !!!! Keep up the good work gal, I look to be back in Alabama for good within a year, hopefully sooner to visit, sure hope to see you then.

Roger that is great. I bet you will look like the Beverly Hillbillies coming back with all those chickens tied on top of the truck to get them to Alabama.

Looking forward to meeting in person.
BTW I have had six chicks hatch from the Choc male Don sent me over my Choc girls. The little silly hens think it is time to be broody in Dec. I laugh thinking how careful we are to keep them the right temp when they hatch and these seem to be doing fine when it is cool in the morning and they are not under the hen.