Red Orpington?

The sussex to buff orpington would be a good cross to start with. The offspring from the first cross or F1 would be orange red because of the dark bown gene. Only hatch ten or so birds. Make sure the male sussex is a dark red bird. Or if you use females only use birds that are dark red.

Then cross a male offspring and female offspring with the best type- this time hatch 20 or more eggs. From this second hatch you should get a few black tailed red birds or red birds.

You can now back cross the black tailed red to the buff orpington to increase type. hatch 10 or so.

Pick the offspring from the back cross with the best type and cross them together- hatch 20 or more chicks- you should get a few black tailed red birds or red birds from the cross.

Continue to cross for best type and the least amount of black in the tail.

The mottling gene will show up from time to time- you can make speckled orpington also.

Be patient- black tailed red would be the easiest variety to produce. Red is more difficult because you have to through breeding remove the black from the tail.

You will have to pick a color standard and breed toward the color standard while also breeding for the orpington type.

Tim

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This in incorrect, only the New Hampshire comes from RIR breeding. The buckeye is not related to RIR, different heritage, body type, comb, and color.
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Body type in all, RIR is darker, and hard feathered, come in rose comb & single. Buckeyes are lighter colored than RIR, males are bigger, also hard feathered and only come in pea combs. New Hampshire's are lighter colored and bred for broilers, come only in single come and are very rare. Orpingtons are bigger, loose feathered, single combed and have white legs.

Mitch

Using a Sussex seems better than a RIR, NH or Buckeye. Type is too different in the others. Plus skin color.

But is the goal a solid Red Orpington or a Black Tail Red?

Here's my Red English Orpingtons. These are lines imported from Greenfire and Marc. The hen is Greenfire and the roo is from Marc. I can't wait to see how this rooster turns out. He is 2 months younger than the hen. She should be laying any day now. At least I hope.

This is a Red Orpington

A " red Orpington"?i have a hen that looks exactly like that,but shes a cross between a New Hampshire red and a buff Orpington,I guess because buff and red are both dominates they produced a mix of the two in my case,however is it possible it could be different in your scenario.

Hello, I am looking for dark red orpingtons. Anyone have any? I sent a pm to kevinblj. Anyone else? Please let me know.

What would a red orphington sale for

Teresa Lynn said:

What would a red orphington sale for

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Depends on quality, gender and your local market.