my hen is a yellow-gold buff Orpington that's more than half a year old. Recently she started to cluck differently. like the clucks you will hear from a hen looking for food for her chicks. or the sounds a hen will make after she gets off her nest to eat and drink and go back to her nest. She...
hi! i have a little bantam rooster and two buff orpington hens and am trying to breed them. but even tho one of my orpingtons has a cluch of 12 eggs she still wont sit on them. does this mean her eggs are not finalized? and if so can a bantam rooster even mate with buff orpington hens?
7 months old I can't have another rooster, can anyone tell if this one is a rooster? The people I got them from were very nice and said I can come back and exchange if one turns out to be a roo.
I have a Welsummer and a Russian Orloff. They are both 6 months old. The Welsummer is social and is fun to have but she’s very feisty and has been pecking at the Russian Orloff to the point of the Orloff having no more fathers around her neck and we saw blood for the first time, which is what...
We purchased 4 straight run buff Orpington chicks back in June and they are about 6-7 weeks old now. I know it could be a little too soon but one of the 4 looks like it could be a rooster. It’s feathers have grown in a little differently than the others and it is the only one with a comb that...
Hello! I have four ducks: one female and one male buff ducks and one male and one female blue Swedish ducks. Will they reproduce? Or do I need a hen duck in order for them to reproduce/ mate? And if they are able to mate without a hen duck, how often do they mate and how many fertilized eggs...
For some background info, I'm trying out raising backyard chickens to see how it goes. I have 6 chicks, all but two are different breeds. I have an Araucana, ISA Brown, Olive Egger, 2 Light Brahmas, and of course, a Buff Orpington.
My chicks are only about a month old so I don't know if I...
Hello, I recently got a 2 week old buff orpington chick and now it's 3 weeks old. Today, I cleaned out it water and it drank some water and now it's sneezing, stretching it's neck out and opening it's mouth. It's also making small bubble noise that pops. I don't know if it drank the water too...
Me and my little brother recently got a 3 week old buff orpington chick. Today I was watching it drink water that I got fresh from, and it started sneezing and making noise like small bubbles noise, like a small pop noise. I don't know if it's is sick or if it drank the water wrongly and it's...
Hello fellow chicken lovers!
I have 2 Buffs and 2 Americana’s that have been raised since hatchlings. I just love my feathers babies! I have had to separate their feed into 3 different containers, because the buffs stand guard over the feeding bowls and are starting to fight off the the...
So I bought some chicks from red barn recently and have been raising them together. The sign on the box said they were all Buff Orpingtons however as I’ve researched more and read about them I have yet to see a Buff Orpington that isn’t golden and out of the three I purchased together one of...