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Three more LF choc Orp project babies have hatched! Two pullets and a black cockerel! I was hoping for a mauve this time...

Pics, as promised! And I was wrong, they are both chocolate (pullets, YAY)! For size comparison... The yellow chicks are Ameraucana x Delaware OEs and the rest are bantam Cochins. The chocolates are the biggest of the hatch - although one is hiding under the other. I am quite happy...

I do believe I have hatched my first two LF Choc/Mauve Orp project chicks today! My "bantam" Chocs are from Richard / Pampered Poultry and they are anything but bantam at 7-8lbs. I have them over my 75% English girls. I hatched a choc and a black! I am VERY excited! Pics once everyone is...

I seem to be a glutton for fluff. Between the bantam English Orps, LF English Orps and the bantam Cochins, I have a lot of tushies to pluck and trim. There's over 40 out there to deal with. I kind of miss the Ameraucanas for that reason. eta: Oh, definitely a hatchalolic. I set everything...

After dealing with fertility issues, I finally have some fertile eggs from my LF chocolate/mauve project! Out of 19 eggs, 4 are developing! I know, not a good percentage, but considering I have set every egg for the last 2 months (over 150) and none developed, this is great news! I trimmed...

Hm. I thought I had an answer for that but seems I am not sure. I would assume not. I would think only 50% of the time with the blue gene. You'd still produce chocolates if the parents where double chocolate gened since blue x blue can still give you black, and chocolate dilutes black =...

That sounded... dirty.

I don't show, but if I did I have 75% English and 100% English, so I would be showing what I have. What I have is what I like and what the breed was originally meant to look like. In my opinion, many of the APA SOP birds look like Australorps and I feel the US ruined a perfectly gorgeous bird...

Is this a line/inbreeding issue? Mine were really fertile at the beginning and now 4wks later they are starting to be sketchy. They were in with a few boys, so maybe this cockerel isn't quite doing his job like he should be. The girls slowed up on laying, too. Out of 5 girls, I was getting...

I really like these darker girls, Bama! I love how the lacing really pops on them!

Congrats, Deek! That is fantastic news! I hatched my first chocolate bantam Orps from my flock today! Three fluffy little butts! I set these eggs right after I got them, too, so I was concerned fertility would be sketchy. I also hatched a black 100% English import bantam Orp from Tonea's...

I was thinking He, too. Look at those saddle feathers with that gorgeous green sheen already!

Oh my. I love Crele and I like Lav. Both together are dreamy. Whoever imports these, I want on your list.

I used to show QHs as a youth. Somewhere along the lines I lost my nerve and I sold my last horse in May 2012 (grade Paint gelding, rescued). I also got a bit big after my last kid and decided not to ride anymore. I decided if I got tired of the chickens, I can eat them. You can't do that...

Creles are my favorite variety. GLOs and Chocolates are a very close second, for sure. Any more pics of your Creles? Any of you? I could stare at them all night.

Thank you! I was hoping it wasn't a reason to cull her. As long as there is a possibility to breed it out, I'll try it. This bantam Cochin project is going to be interesting anyways... I did pick out chocolates with more Cochin like cushions, but they all have what Cochin breeders like to...

Ideas? Suggestions? They aren't solid white, but that is definitely not red. It's like the middle has splotches of blue/white.

My camera sucks. These are the best 2 out of 8 pictures. I also discovered they are not used to being held. Touched/pet they are fine. They didn't know how to walk on hay until yesterday either.

Very interesting. So, since they are not hard enamel like a Minorca, they aren't really white. But because the gene is there it comes through as pinkish? Like with anything, I am sure it can be bred out over time. As far as I know all my bantam Cochins have red earlobes... I guess I would...

They are not white like a leghorn, more fleshy. As Harry said, I have it in my Ameraucanas, too. I just noticed recently that I have quite a few girls in my Am flock with the fleshy earlobes. This Orp breeder told me she was actually culling the white earlobe birds she was getting, but no...