Fairy Tail Farms English Orpingtons

[Tonyroo]

Here are my 3 remaining lavenders and 1 splash, they are busy little things, lol. Almost 2 1/2
Come see @K0k0shka

Heavy looking chicks .

 

[Auntiejessi3]

Heavy looking chicks .

They are quite large, I've never had chicks (aside from the chicks my broody hatched last year that colt got) only 6 week olds, but in comparison they are big little things for their age

 

[Tonyroo]

@ColtHandorf , are your birds bigger and heavier than the hatchery version? Just curious.

 

[The Moonshiner]

@ColtHandorf , are your birds bigger and heavier than the hatchery version? Just curious.

If not......

 

[ColtHandorf]

Is that a pretty little layer flock of eye candy that you get to admire from your kitchen window, and use those eggs fresh daily? (And not breed / set)

Yes.

@ColtHandorf , are your birds bigger and heavier than the hatchery version? Just curious.

Good heavens, yes. Even poor quality English Orpingtons are miles above the poor excuse hatcheries churn out for Orpingtons. I don’t claim mine are the best out there, but they are certainly better than most in the area I’ve seen.

 

[Chipmunk Chicks]

Yes.

I will most likely have to remind my husband that this is an actual thing one day...

 

[ColtHandorf]

Case in point these “English” birds someone was trying to sell me:

Versus mine:

 

[ColtHandorf]

I will most likely have to remind my husband that this is an actual thing one day...

I keep my Buttercups in the kitchen flock. They are the only white egg layers so all white eggs are pure. Everything else is a mix, extra, or something I’m not breeding.

 

[The Moonshiner]

Was it Sandhill?

 

[Tonyroo]

Those black ones look like an American orpington a "hybrid" to deal with the heat better. Yours looks like an English orpington.