Maple Ridge Poultry

20/06/2024

Black Spangled Orpington girl, Brigitte has finally finished her moult and is looking fabulous!

We will only be hatching chicks for ourselves this year but I will have limited dozens of eggs for collection or posting this spring 🐣 of the following breeds/colours:

Black Spangled Orpington
Blue Spangled Orpington
Black Mottled Brahma
Blue Mottled Brahma
Speckled/Split Brahma
Blue Speckled Brahma
Mixed bag Speckled/Mottled Brahma

12/05/2024

Hi everyone, we are taking a little break from posting regularly on FB due to some health issues. I just don’t quite have the time to keep the page updated right now. We will be back hopefully when the season starts back up again 🙂 Feel free to PM at any time and I’ll do my best though.

Ella X

(Feat. SugarPlum the blue mottled Brahma)

21/04/2024

Welcome to 3 little HMMS ewe lambs 🥰 They are so sweet. We have them penned off near the house at the moment while they adjust, they liked the oaten hay we fed out but decided to eat the caltrop instead which is just fine by me 😆

The dogs are mesmerised by them and it will be great to have some sheep to test out their working ability as we like them to be able to do it all ☺️

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19/04/2024

We had some 🌧️ overnight! Now I’m wondering when our paddocks will look like this again 😍 hopefully soon 🤞

17/04/2024

I think there may be a running theme here with the feather/coat patterns on the animals 🤔😆

Spangled Orpington & Black and Blue Mottled Brahma // Fergus & Austin the Australian Shepherds (Blue & Red Merle).

16/04/2024

Happy 5th birthday to our best farm hand & chook protector, Fergus 🥰

15/04/2024

🫛 Bean 🫛 Millefleur Pekin

15/04/2024

Yes, good morning Molly, can I please have a moment to fill and clean waterers before I get your breakfast? 😆

Molly is one of our Black Mottled Brahma pullets.

13/04/2024

Moulting always hits the Orps the hardest 😳😆 Another month and they’ll be looking nice. They definitely appreciate the extra protein at the moment, things like tinned oily fish and some scrambled eggs. Flitwick has a bald bum with some very mottled feathers coming through so I’m very keen to see his new look 🥰

10/04/2024

Welcome 🫛 Bean 🫛

Many thank you’s to Emery Creek Hobby Farm for letting this sweet, little Pekin boy come to live at Maple Ridge. I haven’t even got an updated photo of him because my hands are always full holding him - he is such a gentle, cuddly boy!

I think we need Pekin pens now 🤦‍♀️😏😆

09/04/2024

EOI
2x black mottled Brahma X Orpington pullets (8 months/POL) 1 is straight comb and 1 pea comb (PENDING)
2x blue mottled Brahma x Orpington Pullets (8 months/POL) both pea comb (PENDING)
1x buff, split for speckled Brahma pullet (roughy 5 months) (AVAIL)
1x blue buff, split for speckled Brahma pullet (roughly 5 months) (AVAIL)
4️⃣0️⃣ per girl. Happy to throw in a speckled/mottled boy if you would like to give this colour a go however they do have gold leakage and will need time and patience to breed this out. Really not fussed if these girls go or not as I actually love them 😩 But I really have too many right now. PM me with any questions ☺️ plenty more photos in my camera roll.

04/04/2024

Miffy is a little on the petite side, however I am grateful to have another speckled girl in the pens since our beloved OG speckled girl, Dixie passed away ❤️‍🩹

04/04/2024

SugarPlum & Blueberry 🫐 Getting big now!

02/04/2024

I love this light, buff-ish colour in the speckled Brahma 🥰 so pretty

01/04/2024

Little Snow Pea is our first pullet from hatching season to start laying 🥰 I could tell when I went in their pen today as she was trying to make a nest under my legs 😆 so we popped a little nest box in there for her and, Voila! Thank you kindly, Snow Pea 🩷

30/03/2024

Oh man, I was really convinced this was going to be a blue mottled pullet 😅 until this week when I saw the excess tail feathering, different shades in blue and that comb darken!

30/03/2024

My favourite black Mottled cockerel. Great variation in mottling and a good brow with a decent amount of foot feathering and starting to get tall!

27/03/2024

Some of the crossbred girls from our second or third “incubator test hatch”. They would be from our black spangled orp boy, Flitwick x our blue mottled Brahma girl, Muffin. Pretty pet layers to stock up the eating egg pen 🥰

23/03/2024

My favourite pen, the pullet pen! Black & blue mottled Brahma, Speckled & Blue Speckled Brahma, Split-Speckled Brahma, Gold Partridge Brahma, White Brahma and Buff Cochin 🥰

18/03/2024

I’m not proud of myself for sneaking in one last hatch of Brahma babies but what else does one do with excess eggs 🤷‍♀️ I promise this is my last before next season starts again.

Disclaimer: no promises can be made at this time, but we will do our best 🫢

07/03/2024

Big boy Flitwick (Large Black Spangled Orpington) is happy to be free ranging again with the crew. His sons were creating anarchy in the free range pen and he has swiftly sorted everyone out into their pecking order (with himself at the top, naturally). He is so lovely to his girls and babies and very fair to the older boys (even the ones twice his size!).
He is my favourite Rooster and I love him dearly.

27/02/2024

27/02/2024

Our Split for speckled grow outs are coming along (feat. Bubbles the bantam polish baby sitter 😆). They are from our speckled rooster over some blue partridge girls. We have a range of shades and lacing, it’s interesting to see. From mahogany all the way to a light buff colour (not pictured as she was behind me pecking at the zip on my pants lol).

These will eventually go back under a speckled rooster to get 50/50 speckled and splits, then outcrossed again to buff or gold partridge to bring some better type in ☺️

26/02/2024

This is absolutely my husband 😂 Ain’t no one picking on his favourite girls 😡😆

22/02/2024

We welcomed two lovely Gold Partridge Brahma pullets to Maple Ridge the other week 🥰 They are lovely, big, friendly girls and have fit in so well with our other grow outs. Thank you so much to Rhonda at Sapphire Poultry , we appreciate you letting these two come to scratch around here in SA ☺️