Robin's Roost : The Story of my flock of English Orpingtons as they grow :)

[Cheekychook12]

So I turned the BIG 50 this past November. My sister has a backyard flock of mixed breeds, from Easter Eggers, to Orpingtons and Cochins....long story short I don't speak to her anymore, but I'd always wanted chickens way before she got her flock, that just enhanced the reminder . When we were kids I helped my Grandmother around her small CT farm and helped her care for her flock of chickens. I'm also big into horses, I was always that outdoors type growing up. Well a week after their hatch day on March 14th I picked up four English Orpington chicks bred by an experienced breeder near me. Two are Red Mottled and two are Golden Laced. They should grow up to be gorgeous birds.

This will be the place I share the joys and ups and downs of raising our little flock. My parents and I are excited to embark on the journey of our own flock of feathered family members. So meet Rose, Sophia, Blanche (maybe Stan...LOL), and Dorothy, our "Golden Girls" from Cocktown Funky Orpingtons. I'm afraid of chicken math, btw....already wondering how we can expand hahaha.

Robin

The chicken math is real! I have given up fighting it lol
I used to have 3, then 6, and now I have 17 and want more
But can’t have many more yet due to living in the suburbs (I have a very large yard)

 

[Sally PB]

Welcome, @RobinsRoost74!

If you have any questions, please ask! The knowledge pool here is both wide and deep. The best way to find out something specific is to make a new thread about it, so that more people see it.

We also have a lot of other topics that have long running threads, like baking, gardening, beekeeping, dogs, building stuff, etc.

I'm looking forward to watching your little ones grow. Please keep posting lots of pictures.

 

[RobinsRoost74]

Welcome, @RobinsRoost74!

If you have any questions, please ask! The knowledge pool here is both wide and deep. The best way to find out something specific is to make a new thread about it, so that more people see it.

We also have a lot of other topics that have long running threads, like baking, gardening, beekeeping, dogs, building stuff, etc.

I'm looking forward to watching your little ones grow. Please keep posting lots of pictures.

Thank you so much! I'm also a professional photographer, so when we get them to the coop/run I'm going to pull out my Canon.

 

[RobinsRoost74]

The chicken math is real! I have given up fighting it lol
I used to have 3, then 6, and now I have 17 and want more
But can’t have many more yet due to living in the suburbs (I have a very large yard)

OMG I love your girls, how pretty!!

 

[Sally PB]

Thank you so much! I'm also a professional photographer, so when we get them to the coop/run I'm going to pull out my Canon.

Oh, how cool. I have a degree in photography and spent most of my working life in a photolab. I worked in the darkroom back in the negative/enlarger days, then in other capacities as machines took over.

I still have my Canon AE-1 (optical) camera.

 

[RobinsRoost74]

Oh, how cool. I have a degree in photography and spent most of my working life in a photolab. I worked in the darkroom back in the negative/enlarger days, then in other capacities as machines took over.

I still have my Canon AE-1 (optical) camera.

I absolutely love this! That's awesome! I am working on my degree, but got most of my practical education from an Astrophotographer in Massachusetts of all places. Astrophotography was my first foray into photography and I was hooked!

 

[RobinsRoost74]

A link to my portraiture, this is of my sister's Rhode Island Red, Chicken Nugget of all names, lol....

https://thestarsabovephotography.shootproof.com/gallery/19528560/photo/2614936508

 

[Sally PB]

^^Nice!

The last decade of my photolab life, I did a lot of QC. Our biggest client was a chain that hired just about anyone who had a camera. Some of the work we saw was very good (it was all babies; mostly newborns), but the vast majority of it was average and WAY below average. If I could have given the photographers two pieces of advice, they would have been:

There's a nifty thing on digital cameras called "white balance." Learn about it and use it. Our color correction can only fix so much.

But the biggest thing would have been:

The barrel shaped thingie on the front of the camera turns. It turns for a reason. That reason is to FOCUS the image. We can't fix that here in the lab.

I can think of just ONE image that I saw at the lab that was not in focus (a little soft, but definitely not sharp) that was a knockout image anyway. Out of the literally MILLIONS of images, that is the only one.

Oh, the stories I have about crappy images I've seen...

 

[RobinsRoost74]

^^Nice!

The last decade of my photolab life, I did a lot of QC. Our biggest client was a chain that hired just about anyone who had a camera. Some of the work we saw was very good (it was all babies; mostly newborns), but the vast majority of it was average and WAY below average. If I could have given the photographers two pieces of advice, they would have been:

There's a nifty thing on digital cameras called "white balance." Learn about it and use it. Our color correction can only fix so much.

But the biggest thing would have been:

The barrel shaped thingie on the front of the camera turns. It turns for a reason. That reason is to FOCUS the image. We can't fix that here in the lab.

I can think of just ONE image that I saw at the lab that was not in focus (a little soft, but definitely not sharp) that was a knockout image anyway. Out of the literally MILLIONS of images, that is the only one.

Oh, the stories I have about crappy images I've seen...

LOL .......hahahaha......the barrel shaped thingie lol......One thing I notice is that a lot of people don't know their camera very well. For instance, I have learned and sometimes still get bit by the fact my older Canon only has good sharp focus in the center of the frame, the outer rings are softer no matter what. It pays to understand camera capability as well. I can't tell you the number of photos I think oh yeah here's the one only to find I shot it off center so nope...lol.....

 

[Sally PB]

The great thing about digital is you can see what you got... for free! No buying film, no processing/printing costs!