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Author Topic: do orpingtons make good table birds?  (Read 2190 times)

Buffy the eggs layer

  • Joined Jun 2010
do orpingtons make good table birds?
« on: August 15, 2011, 06:59:29 pm »
I have the offer of some buff O eggs and wondered about hatching them as table birds. How long would they take to mature and once you have got under all that feather is it worth the trouble. ???

Buffy

It-needed-a-home

  • Joined Apr 2011
  • Aberdeenshire
  • Zeus (our saxony duck)
Re: do orpingtons make good table birds?
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2011, 07:43:14 pm »
I cross my orpington cock with my marans and they are great at 18 weeks maybe 22 weeks if your fussy hehehe!!

I have eggs if your interested !
Well i have cut back and i still have to many !!!! Oh well just as well i love them !!

Buffy the eggs layer

  • Joined Jun 2010
Re: do orpingtons make good table birds?
« Reply #2 on: August 16, 2011, 08:14:49 am »
Hi,

  that sounds like an interesting hybrid. How do they turn out? Do they have lots of feather? I am in East Yorkshire, where abouts are you?


Buffy

 

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