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Question: my choc Roos seem to be really lightening up. Do you think they could be sunbleached? When do Roos usually molt? At a year old?

Yes

If you are breeding Orpingtons you would need to start with a red?

Thank you. I can understand it from the chart but I can't store it in my head like I can dog colors

Can anyone tell me how the jubilee coloring fits in to all this?

Because I come from dog genetics , so much simpler

Someone sent me these. I have a difficult time comprehending it all

Thank you. I have been looking for a standard. I find it strange that you have to buy a book to know your breed standard.

Hi, I posted the video. I wanted input on which orps to keep. They are all nice to people and kids. Not friendly but my chickens are not pets. They were hatched from eggs from a farm around here. They are not a hatchery but I don't consider them show quality either. Heck you can't even show...

@WVduckchick Hi, not having luck taking pictures but here is a video my husband made of our cockerels. I need to cull. I know my birds are not show quality. I just can't keep 8 roosters. Can anyone give me advice on which ones to keep.

She is nice looking , much better than my hens

Ok Choc orp male bred to EE partridge colored females. Will the chicks be sexlinked , i.e. Choc will be females, blacks will be males?

Ok, thank you.

If I want to do a breeding experiment. I only have a lavender pullet. If I put her in with my black cockerel, if he is split to choc. Willl I get choc chicks? If he isn't split I would get black? How long would I need to keep her away from any other male before I could know her eggs are...

Ok, but I have read that chickens don't have genes like mammals. Where as a mammal boy is xy a female is xx but in birds it isn't the same, correct?

This is hard for me to understand. I am used to mammal genetics. Why does the female only need one gene?

Looks nice. I have a black and three choc.

So cute!!

Not sure, I hate to eat them because the seem to be very nice to people. I have a year old one who is beautiful. Trying to learn the SOP and see if these two young ones are going to be better than what I have. Hershey the rooster his only flaw was he wad over breeding the hens. He seems to...

Yes you did. Sorry for some reason I didn't register that part. I got over half of my eggs to be cockerels with the fertile eggs I hatched from papas. I have sold two. Am giving one to a 4h kid, mot sure what to do with remaining.