The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[Honora]

Chocolate Mottle cockerel

Cool!

 

[EdenCamp]

Crele

 

[EdenCamp]

Blacks

 

[Outdoorlover]

Black O. are my favorite!

Mine is 5 weeks old, I hope it'll look like yours someday!

 

[jeremy]

Nice type on your birds @EdenCamp !

I'm glad to see folks are committed to maintaining the English Standards still.

 

[lauragutknecht]

Regarding the dark spots on the heads of some Lemon Cuckoo Orpingtons: I have a very nice-looking flock of lemons and I have just noticed the dark spots on a few of my chicks, too. I have read that smut in the tail feathers is undesirable, so I've been getting rid of any LCO with smut in their tail, but I have not read anything about spots on the heads of chicks yet.

 

[newhobbie]

I purchased some very nice chocolate cuckoo roos tonight, the hens that are coming with these guys are really too small for my liking. I do however have a some super nice black hens. Can someone give me a crash course in the color genetics begind chocolate? I would love to use my black hens to get some correct size and shape chocolate cuckoo hens but not sure if its possible? Can you get back to chocolate? Sorry just getting into this so I have a lot to learn!

 

[bramblefir]

I purchased some very nice chocolate cuckoo roos tonight, the hens that are coming with these guys are really too small for my liking. I do however have a some super nice black hens. Can someone give me a crash course in the color genetics begind chocolate? I would love to use my black hens to get some correct size and shape chocolate cuckoo hens but not sure if its possible? Can you get back to chocolate? Sorry just getting into this so I have a lot to learn!

A Chocolate Cuckoo male X Black female = Black Cuckoo males (carrying 1 Choc. gene) and Chocolate Cuckoo females.

 

[newhobbie]

Thank you very much!

 

[EdenCamp]

depends also if your choc cc roos are double or single barred. If single bar, half chicks both sexes will be solid birds. Either way, any barred offspring will be single bar (that's all females can be anyway)