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Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: yvonne.s on November 13, 2012, 12:23:33 pm

Title: Chocolate Orpington needs a home.
Post by: yvonne.s on November 13, 2012, 12:23:33 pm

 :chook:  Hi there. I am looking for a home for a young (hatched in april) chocolate Orpington bantam cockerel as we have two and only four hens... So I would like to find one of them a home before I run into problems.  :-\   :chook:

Title: Re: Chocolate Orpington needs a home.
Post by: ZacB on November 13, 2012, 04:58:41 pm

Yvonne.s, may be able to help but you don't say where you are? If you are near Bury St.Edmunds in Suffolk your problems are solved  ;D

Title: Re: Chocolate Orpington needs a home.
Post by: yvonne.s on November 13, 2012, 10:48:26 pm

Oh dear...
we're miles away up in the Highlands about half an hour from Inverness.. thanks anyway  :wave:

Title: Re: Chocolate Orpington needs a home.
Post by: Bumblebear on November 13, 2012, 11:05:57 pm

Zacb I have a choice of four buffs if you're interested? If not they will be freezer fodder next year.

Title: Re: Chocolate Orpington needs a home.
Post by: ZacB on November 14, 2012, 08:49:36 am

Quote from: Bumblebear on November 13, 2012, 11:05:57 pm

Zacb I have a choice of four buffs if you're interested? If not they will be freezer fodder next year.

Hi Bumblebear, I'm guessing as they are freezer fodder not quite what I'm after...bantam cockerel? Have a friend at beck row who has a lonely bantam buff orp and is looking for a partner for her....bantam by any chance???

Title: Re: Chocolate Orpington needs a home.
Post by: Bumblebear on November 14, 2012, 09:05:48 am

Not a bantam.  They will only be freezer fodder because I have just recently replaced our cockerel (who died of old age) and we have 3 more.  Lovely birds, but I would rather eat them than send them to auction.

Title: Re: Chocolate Orpington needs a home.
Post by: ZacB on November 14, 2012, 09:11:00 am

Auction??? Would that be at swaffham / Eriswell???

Title: Re: Chocolate Orpington needs a home.
Post by: kelloggs on November 14, 2012, 12:07:39 pm

Lady near me has some orpington bantam boys advertised on preloved,  just outside Swaffham........if thats any good ;) choc and other colours too

Title: Re: Chocolate Orpington needs a home.
Post by: Bumblebear on November 21, 2012, 11:03:38 am

Quote from: ZacB on November 14, 2012, 09:11:00 am

Auction??? Would that be at swaffham / Eriswell???

Yes either of the them, but I don't like them :(