The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[Kiniska]

I actually replaced the roost bar I had set in my coop yesterday with a nice thick sapling after reading the frost bite comments. You guys are great. How do you all feel about having a compost bin connected to the outside run? So far the things I have been reading are positive about that option.
Thanks for your wealth of information!

 

[Renie'sPeeps]

What are you putting in it??? Is it to compost the chicken waste?? Be aware of mold.. that is all I will say about that.. lol

 

[delisha]

I actually replaced the roost bar I had set in my coop yesterday with a nice thick sapling after reading the frost bite comments. You guys are great. How do you all feel about having a compost bin connected to the outside run? So far the things I have been reading are positive about that option.
Thanks for your wealth of information!

The chickens love my compost pile, but, i can't help you. I do not know anything about enclosed chicken runs and composting beside it in a bin. If you have information about that I would like to read it for my own education.

 

[delisha]

Quote: I hope you did not do what I did and put an untreated sapling in the coop. I gave my poor chickens mites. Now they are soaked in neem oil first.

 

[Margitas]

Ok Vivi I will go to that thread thank you. So reading that other thread I looked and I apparently have 2 Lemon Cuckoo Orpingtons-1 hen & 1 roo and 2 Buff Orpingtons hens. Now on the two buff hens they are much, much larger and darker than the barred hen, but she also has a much smaller comb so was thinking maybe she was a little younger than the other two. The woman who sold them thought they were hatched in April.


























Left foot

Right foot-she was curling it so it was a hard picture

The lighter one really does have the barring my camera is just not very good.

Is frostbite damage,sorry.

 

[Phantom_Rooster]

It's not frostbite. Sorry Larry. From the words of a GF ad that was once available about the defect, it mentioned the "lack of a claw on the middle toe". Contact me if you would like to know the details. I think many people who are selling them are not telling about the defect.

 

[aveca]

Phanton rooster...You should post the info about the defect so that people who are buying stock and see that consider that it might be congenital defect..it threw me, healing scabbing on top of toes looks like past cases of frostbite I have seen..so maybe it should be posted on injurys diseases ect..but valuable info for people shopping birds..a new englad winter can be pretty brutal even in enclosed pens..the coldest temps ever recorded were on mt washington .

 

[Phantom_Rooster]

I had some Lemon Cuckoos before and a couple had the same toe defect. Greenfire had the same problem with their first line of Lemon Cuckoos. I hope that it is OK to post what they had previously posted publicly on their website. I am doing this for the sake of educating those who don't know or didn't read this before about the genetic defect that some of the Lemon Cuckoos had. Read the last paragraph. Aveca, I appreciate you for requesting that I provide this info. It seems to be the right thing to do.

 

[aveca]

That is interesting for sure..I'm wondering how something like that could happen..it seems like breeders working on creating lemon cuckoo's
Would have been more careful with the building blocks.in the big English...especially the foundation..something to be aware of..it seriously does look like healed frostbite
If it were frostbite..one thing is for sure..it would become very irritated and red even swollen cold weather.season..just the nature of it...

 

[Margitas]

I still say is frostbite, i have lemon cuckoos from greenfire ,Mark , never have any problem like this.But is good info,thanks