orpingtons

Why do my Orpingtons (bantam and regular) prefer to huddle up on the floor at night instead of roosting on their perch? I’m busy drawing up plans for a luxurious coop for them to sleep in (this will be inside of a very big catio-inspired run/enclosure/aviary in my backyard). They’ve been in a...

I have lavender orpington and black split orpington roos, and I have some silver and gold laced ladies, i know the lacing is recessive, but what colour would my chicks be if I put these girls with these roos? Can anyone enlighten me?

I bought Ariel fully grown from a farm. The owner buys heritage breeds and doesn’t really ID her birds. I thought she might be Orpington but kinda looks like a New Hampshire Red. One of these eggs is hers and the other belongs to my Plymouth barred rock.

Hi all! We are new to raising chickens and did a lot of research, we have 4 buffs and 10 australorps and they will be for family use once they get to that point. ie. eggs and meat. We will only be keeping a handful of these through the winter for continued egg production. my question is: we...

After moving back to central Fl and a 55+ community from Tn we can’t take it anymore and bought an acre in north Fl in Hamilton County. All this so we can have our Buff and Lavender Orpingtons, some goats and a food forest. We may be past our prime but we want to do what makes us happy again❣️...

This is for 12 hatching eggs. Not refrigerated or washed. Packed Insulated for summer. Shipped priority with tracking. Selling 1/2 price for the fourth. As long as you ask and pay on the fourth you get them for $13.00. large hens high hatch rate. Daily egg layers of their needs are met.Pay here

My Orpington chicks started to hatched. These are Black split Lavender Orpington and BBS Red Laced Orpington chicks from Papa's Poultry.

Excited to join this forum to learn more about chickens! I currently just began raising silkies and lavender Orpingtons on our homestead. We raise meat chickens during the summer as well. We also raise Kinder goats for meat/milk. Hope to learn a lot!

Hi there! I am looking for advice on how to administer injectable oxytetracycline. I am willing to inject, but oral administration is preferable since I’m having difficulty finding needles and syringes. So, I have two main questions: 1) Is one method more effective than the other? (Injecting vs...

I have buff Orpingtons but how do I breed lavender Orpingtons?

Hi all! I was wondering the genetic results from crossing a chocolate roo to a Jubilee hen. I just wanted to see if my assumptions are correct as far as possible offspring. Jubilee is a variant of the mottle gene, which is recessive. Thus no mottling would be passed to the offspring, but they...

Hi, so I have been reading on a few ways to prevent mites and decided to get some food grade Diatomaceous earth. I then went on cleaning the coop as usual and scattered the DE around the inner and outer lining of the coop as well as on the ends of the roost bars (the DE was visible, but not...

Hi Everyone! We have chickens. Yikes! What have I gotten myself into? My wife who grew up on Oah'u in Hawai'i had a pet chicken when she was a little girl. I have ZERO experience with chickens, although I've always liked them. I find their clucking and scratching soothing. We have...

Hello Orpington lovers! I've made this quick little poll to give me an idea on when your Orpingtons started to lay eggs. Every vote is a contribution to my research:).

I just sold 11 Blue laced Red Wyndottes and I have 10 chickens left! In the Clevland area, near Hopkins airport Wyndottes (2 years old ), Silver laced (1) Gold laced (1) Lavender orpington hen (1) Ayam Chimani hen (3 year old and laying ) Jubliee Orphington (1), 3 yr old A pair of Coronation...

I recieved a group of chicks that were supposed to be lavender orpingtons but found out that the chicks where the wrong color compared to ours. Turns out they were mottled lavender orpingtons. I have 1 rooster I didn't sell and my neighbor lost here lavender rooster and we were wondering what...

Hello everyone, this a continuation of a crele project that I'm having fun doing. If you haven't seen it, go check it out. If you have any questions, feel free to ask? If you have any comments, or suggestions, please keep them possitive, & friendly? My project crele is Wheaten based, to be more...