Thank you.
The grayer one will be the splash i suppose since she looks like her mother as a chick.
I was expecting a lot of buff coloring. The lemon cuckoo rooster has blackish feathers in his tail. Are the dark markings from
the hens being Buff over Buff/Columbia ? Or do lemon cuckoo have...
These are from my Orpington flock consisting of a Buff English rooster and a Lemon Cuckoo Rooster. The hens are Buff, buff/Colombian, and black and splash from a blue flock.
I hope I can make things clearer in this post because I would really like some help.
Are the chicks from a Buff Orpington Rooster and a Buff/Columbian hen properly labeled Buff Orpington?
If I choose to breed my Lemon Cuckoo rooster with Buff/ Columbian hens will that be the same as putting...
I have an English orpingtoon rooster with buff/Columbian English hens. Does anyone have pictures of chicks from this cross?
Are there problems with this cross when I sell chicks?
I also have a lemon cuckoo orpington rooster is there any difference if I breed him to buff hens vs buff/Colombian...
I am have trouble starting a new thread so I hope this is OK to post here. I went to purchase some English buff Orpington hens today and was really looking forward to getting them. They looked and acted healthy. They are 15 months old and finishing a molt. We put them in my cage and set them...
He is about a month older in the close up of his comb.
I can't seem to get the other picture uploaded.
Thanks for your help. I think he had a mixed brahma mama.
Here is a picture with my English Buff Orpington and the background roo is a blue orp from the same flock with an English Blue orp father. Predator problems have neccesitated the cage confinement for a few days and they are doing well together.
I will try to get some better pictures in a day or two. I haven't had much experience with mixed breeds and have never been around brahmas but given the fact feathered feet are in the history, he is more laid back and gentle than my English Orpington and giving him some competition size wise...
That was one I thought about but he is very large and buttercups are not large birds. The comb actuall had a large center comb with a row on each side of much smaller points. I am not certain what to call it? I looked at the 9 recognized comb types and can't find a clear match.