Here is my Lemon cuckoo orp. rooster. I think he is a looker. 

I saw these big chunkey lemons on eBay but the auction has ended...they are from Vermont. i almost bid but reined myself in..i have to make dicisions on what i would like to concentrate on. and i think ive made up my mind..ive been at australorps for 25 years or better, good ones are too hard to find. wont work to try to make a silk purse out of a sows ear (hatchery to show bird cross as it doesnt work well if at all.) so im might be giving that up and working on the others..i will try to keep a few aussies just because they are the best winter layer we have ever owned.

might be just the way they are standing  , thought their tails were a little high, maybe they were herded into the corner for the pic..

but i do like these..

Looks a bit like wind up their petticoats!

he is very pretty bird.

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Originally Posted by silkiesuz 

Here is my Lemon cuckoo orp. rooster. I think he is a looker. 

Aveca,

Look where you would put a girth on these girls though. Then look at the shoulder angle. Their legs are not in the middle. Short upper arms. Not comfy to sit on, and not balanced for longevity.Yup, I'm horse people too. BHSI England, MANY orange crops ago.Had to hang up my tack due to some clumsy steeplechase horses and 3-day. The back went. Still coach a bit.

Vickie

Welcome to our website! We began like most people with just a couple of birds but as with the rest of you it never ends there! We have travelled the country to collect birds from some of the UK's leading orpington chicken breeders whilst developing some very good lines of our own. 350 Birds We have built up a flock in excess of 350 birds in over 20 colours. I have all the breed standard colours and also many of the project colours developed to a very high standard. We also have many project colours in development stage which will be available in the future. Orpington breeding Essex orpingtons can supply hatching eggs, chicks, growers and adult orpington chickens in all of the colours you see on this website. We are based in Essex, England and only sell large fowl orpington chickens. Please enjoy the simplicity of my site, all photos taken are from my stock and premises. Many thanks Steve

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Originally Posted by aveca 

I saw these big chunkey lemons on eBay but the auction has ended...they are from Vermont. i almost bid but reined myself in..i have to make dicisions on what i would like to concentrate on. and i think ive made up my mind..ive been at australorps for 25 years or better, good ones are too hard to find. wont work to try to make a silk purse out of a sows ear (hatchery to show bird cross as it doesnt work well if at all.) so im might be giving that up and working on the others..i will try to keep a few aussies just because they are the best winter layer we have ever owned.

 

might be just the way they are standing  , thought their tails were a little high, maybe they were herded into the corner for the pic..

but i do like these..

Thought these looked familiar. Good thing you didn't grab them - though if you could might be fun. 

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Originally Posted by aveca 

I saw these big chunkey lemons on eBay but the auction has ended...they are from Vermont. i almost bid but reined myself in..i have to make dicisions on what i would like to concentrate on. and i think ive made up my mind..ive been at australorps for 25 years or better, good ones are too hard to find. wont work to try to make a silk purse out of a sows ear (hatchery to show bird cross as it doesnt work well if at all.) so im might be giving that up and working on the others..i will try to keep a few aussies just because they are the best winter layer we have ever owned.

 

might be just the way they are standing  , thought their tails were a little high, maybe they were herded into the corner for the pic..

but i do like these..

Wonder IF the person selling these eggs are using pics from over in the UK?  There has been several on EBAY getting away with stealing pics and using them in their auctions.  I say this cause I have yet to see any Lemons that have been this well built up here in the USA.  IF I was to buy from that seller I would for sure ask IF they in fact own those birds.

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Originally Posted by thedragonlady 

Aveca,

Look where you would put a girth on these girls though. Then look at the shoulder angle. Their legs are not in the middle. Short upper arms. Not comfy to sit on, and not balanced for longevity.Yup, I'm horse people too. BHSI England, MANY orange crops ago.Had to hang up my tack due to some clumsy steeplechase horses and 3-day. The back went. Still coach a bit.

Vickie

thanks vicki..that was a visual i understand LOL..  i liked the big roundness of them but something didnt quite feel right..i have a lot brewing right now and didnt wnt to get another one going too...the downhill horse or on the forhand sort of..

lord bill, you never know what people might be up to..im sure lots of unscrupled people out and about on auctions..dave found a matching site above...sure looks like the same chickens to me except they are in UK....vickis right thou..they are on the forhand a bit..at a glance they looked like the classic big ol orp..

i had the odd thought, im going to get those just to see if that hatchs out.they didnt want an arm and a leg for them..but i dont want to jepordise what i have going on already..look at daves post above and say look familiar? those are in UK.hmmmmm 

the 

auction was listed in vermont  USA

its

 sad that people do stuff like that..sad but no suprise, i occasionally see some bycers over there selling the surplus, good salt of the earth people..one bad apple makes the whole barrel seem bad.

i just cant deal with a lot of the colors..feathers in general are weird to me..add a bunch or stripes andthings..not sure i could stand it..white blk and blue is about as far as i can go..those penciled wyandottes bugg my eyes out like a weird pattern on somones shirt.it interesting to me but they really do bugg me, i couldnt be a poultry judge..look at my avatar see how unkempt that tail is?   makes me nuts.i would be nit picking over those poor cukoos until there were no feathers left.

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Originally Posted by aveca 

lord bill, you never know what people might be up to..im sure lots of unscrupled people out and about on auctions..dave found a matching site above...sure looks like the same chickens..vickis right thou..they are on the forhand a bit..at a glance they looked like the classic big ol orp..

 

i had the odd thought, im going to get those just to see if that hatchs out.they didnt want an arm and a leg for them..but i dont want to jepordise what i have going on already..look at daves post above and say look familiar? those are in UK.hmmmmm 

the 

auction was listed in vermont  USA

its

 sad that people do stuff like that..sad but no suprise, i occasionally see some bycers over there selling the surplus, good salt of the earth people..one bad apple makes the whole barrel seem bad

Be careful, those ARE the same birds (UK), look at the fencing in the background of both pics.   It's kind of disgusting what lengths some people will go to...