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Congratulations, I love blue chickens!
I'm supposed to be having some LCO eggs coming from a contest I won (haven't heard from the donor yet), but from what I've read the barring only appears in the cockerels, the pullets look like pale buffs. I forget where I read that, I'd have to go looking again.I released the Easter Hatch chicks from their mini-coop and run today. They were so excited to be free to run around, but scared of the Big Chickens, which were only interested in the chick starter in their feeder. The tweenies also did not understand Angus the gander was protecting them (he's a very chicken-centric fellow who escorts and guards chicks, for some reason) when he tried to bill them back into their pen.
There is a high ratio of cockerels to pullets ( as is usual for my hatches, dagnabbit), but I really didn't count them. Can't yet tell with the Orps, but the Speckled Sussex boys are obvious.
I am SO thrilled with the two Lemon Cuckoo Orpingtons - one is more "lemony" than the other, which is slightly "creamier." They will probably be roos, with my luck. They're larger than the other Orps. Got a black or splash and two soft grey ones (blue?).
They are gorgeous!