Buff Orpington/ Buff Brahma mix?

[WaggingTails]

I will post photos of momma and dad and you tell me as I took the eggs from under the orpington that I had with the roo. We were going to have to put the roo down and I wanted eggs from my favorite hens. I don't know how it could be anyone else unless these hens aren't orpingtons.

 

[WaggingTails]

Not arguing as I am a newbie chicken owner. Both chicks had the yellow legs feet like dad, couldn't it be recessive trait? The only chicken with our rooster at the time I gathered eggs was one of my yellow hens from above. He was our only roo, she was in there with him in the breeding coop with him and no others since I wanted an orpingon brahma, the other egg [black chick] I pulled from our regular hen house.
So the buff hens in the photo aren't orpingtons?

 

[junebuggena]

Not arguing as I am a newbie chicken owner. Both chicks had the yellow legs feet like dad, couldn't it be recessive trait? The only chicken with our rooster at the time I gathered eggs was one of my yellow hens from above. He was our only roo, she was in there with him in the breeding coop with him and no others since I wanted an orpingon brahma, the other egg [black chick] I pulled from our regular hen house.
So the buff hens in the photo aren't orpingtons?

Yellow skin is recessive. The white skin of the Orpington is dominant. Orpingtons should be pure for white skin, and should not be carrying yellow skin. However, hatcheries sometimes make a mess of genetics when they crossbreed to increase production rate. That's a big reason why you shouldn't use hatchery stock for breeding purposes. You never know what genetics a hatchery bird is carrying. Yellow skinned offspring just proves that one of your Orpington hens is not purebred.

 

[WaggingTails]

I found a photo of the second chick that died.

 

[WaggingTails]

hum, well that's good to know. I wasn't breeding for sale but because I liked the hen and roo. Hen is my best layer and the roo was super big. Thanks for the information, so do you think then that a pure bred orpington- brahma would look like these but with white skin? I was just trying to help the poster out to give an idea. My black baby I am pretty sure is a roo, any quesses on the buff one? There is no color on the comb, it is very timid and walks with its head down most of the time. When I put it with my bantam silkies which are half the size they were beating the crap out of the yellow one. The black one was beating the crap out of the silkies so I had to take separate them again.

 

[holm25]

Yellow skin is recessive. The white skin of the Orpington is dominant. Orpingtons should be pure for white skin, and should not be carrying yellow skin. However, hatcheries sometimes make a mess of genetics when they crossbreed to increase production rate. That's a big reason why you shouldn't use hatchery stock for breeding purposes. You never know what genetics a hatchery bird is carrying. Yellow skinned offspring just proves that one of your Orpington hens is not purebred.

Correction... You shouldn't use hatchery stock for breeding towards the SOP. If youre breeding just for fun it doesn't matter if they are hatchery birds or not.



I'm guessing it's a Brahma over Buff Orp and being its from hatchery stock it doesn't have white skin.

But it should be a beautiful bird!

 

[chrissy528]

This is my 5.5 month old buff Brahma. She doesn’t have Buff Orp in her but I can show the buff Brahma side. She also has the pea comb. This pic was when she was 4 months old.