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no. A blue rooster (unless he carries 1 copy of the chocolate gene, takes 2 copies of the gene to show in males) with a chocolate hen will make all blue and black chicks. Males from this cross will carry 1 copy of chocolate. Keep a blue cockerel and breed back to your chocolate hen blue...

Keith's orps is located in the UK. Unless you want to import, you're not getting any directly from him. http://www.keiths-orps.co.uk/

yep, just comb sprigs, or you will hear side sprigs. Of you keep breeders without sprigs each year you will slowly work them put of your pens. It takes a while. They are common in Swedish flowers and I've fought for 4 year to be rid of them. In that time I've reduced the sprig chances...

Those are sprigs and tend to be a recessive genetic fault. Do not breed him as he will pass them on. It can hide for several generations in a flock before the right genetics meet up to cause them

Feather sexing only works in chicks that have been bred specifically for that trait. It does not work in English Orpington.

could be signs of cockerels. Coudl also just be curiosity. I watch our chicks a lot to determine sex early on. It can he fairly accurate if you watch them enough

I sold them to her back last year and then bought them back for the same price when she decided she no longer wanted to breed chocolate They get big and get there much slower. Most of the size comes on after the 5 month mark

my chocolate girl my mauve barred pullet

8.5months. June 24 2016

I'm waiting on the lady I got these guys back from to give me a hatch date. She had my original chocolate hen and cuckoo cock for about a year and then decided she wanted to continue with lavender only. They were later in the summer last year, guessing June/July hatches.

:lau I didn't even catch that! I love cookie. Such a typical bantam personality. Small but mighty :lol: I also love brick. I've seem him before. Odd he is so small. My boy weighs 15lbs. He's huge. He has enough strength in his beak to bite my finger and keep me from pulling it back out. Hard to...

your first generation from your black mottled cockerel and your lavender pullet will yield 100% black chicks, all will be split for mottled and lavender

lavender to black mottled will throw all black chicks. They will be split for mottled and lavender. Breed them together for lavender, lavender mottled, black, and black mottled. Of course those 2nd generation chicks that are lavender could or could not carry mottled and with black but they...

Your cockerel will become super fluffy into his 2 year old year. The English have extremely long and soft feathers.

she may be large fowl. Weigh her, bantams should not exceed 3lbs. Large fowl typically weigh 8lbs for hens and cocks weigh 12+ lbs. My chocolate cuckoo boy posted yesterday is 15lbs as an adult. His son, who is a cockerel hatched late last year is around 12lbs right now

those are english, so yes they are imported :D

no problems. We still love to see fat fluffy orps!

S someone may have bred English into then at some point and then bred back to the American standard. I've seen that done to improve the fluff.

American. How old is your rooster?

yea, American