my buff orphington

Several pullets from brood #1, 3 mos. old. white ones look like their dad, yellow ones look like the mom. Mother hen has kind of ostracised herself from the coop. Since May she has had 3 clutches of eggs next door in unkempt thick underbrush. When I was gathering the 2nd brood of baby chickens, I got the worst poison ivy. At least I know what the plant looks like and avoid it like the plague.


I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS WITH ORPHINGTONS - BUT THEY ARE VORACIOUS MOTHERS!


2010, so far she has had 3 broods.... the eggs are about to hatch on brood #3. I can't keep her anymore... too many chicks for a city block. I will give her and brood #3 to a farmer friend .