I feel like I’m posting on this topic way more than I should 🤦♀️ I have four newbies, one blue red laced Wyandotte, one lavender Cochin, one lavender Orpington, and one salmon favorolle. They are four months old, I put the Wyandotte in a local poultry show as a pullet, and they said she was a...
Hey guys. Ive been raising the lavender Orpington for the last year, and was wondering if there is an actual group working on getting them added to the APA and SOP.
I got two Lavender Orpingtons at a local feed store (they only order females from a couple of big hatcheries)
One really has the feather shredding going on ( I don’t mind it I’m just a backyard enthusiast) it’s very difficult to determine if they are male or female
They’re almost 14 weeks...
I ordered 6 chicks (Olive Eggers and Lavender Orpingtons) and then I picked out 3 chicks in a bin with 9 different varieties. I picked all grey/blackish ones. The grey ones could be Sapphire Gem, Americauna, Barred Rock or Specialty Brown layer, or maybe I actually picked more lavender...
So I have my first lavender hen. I got her as a chick from TSC back in June. Lately she has been molting like crazy, way more than the other girls I got around the same time. It honestly looks like something killed another lavender out there because there are just so many feathers.
She also is...
This is my 8 week(ish) lavender Orpington roo (hen?). I have someone who’s going to add him to her flock next week but I just wanted to make sure I’m getting rid of a roo and not a hen! He was a Mother’s Day gift so I would be nice if he is actually a she!