They are gorgeous. I did end up confirming with greenfire that he is in fact a lemon cuckoo Niederrheiner. I was so intrigued with this breed that I just purchased 6 chicks in hopes to at least get a couple hens to breed them. :)
My legbar is from greenfire. It may be that she hatched fertilized eggs from someone who got chicks from greenfire. Every single lemon cuckoo orpington hen or rooster that I have seen does not have the black feathers on the tail or under the neck or wings. Mind you this is a young roo. His...
I got this little one in a batch of chicks I purchased from a breeder. She originally told me it was a lemon cuckoo orpington but every picture I see online that looks like it says it's a niederrheiner? I know this breeder gets hatching eggs occasionally from greenfire farms because I previously...