Buff Orpington Rant thread!

[Painted Calls]

This chimney brush is buff Colombian tooView attachment 3211510View attachment 3211511

Oh man. I honestly don't care for frizzled birds, but I love her anyway. She'd be a 10/10 if she were smooth.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

This chimney brush is buff Colombian tooView attachment 3211510View attachment 3211511

Cute chimney brush

 

[Chookwagn]

Oh man. I honestly don't care for frizzled birds, but I love her anyway. She'd be a 10/10 if she were smooth.

Definitely not my favorite either... I don't have her anymore

 

[Amer]

I will never understand why some chickens just have an insatiable appetite for beards. My Easter-eggers are always clean-shaven with that weird uni-wattle look going by late summer.




Solid Buff would be the one for me! I use the distinction of 'solid' because I don't mind things like buff laced, buff Columbian, etc., but when it's solid it's just so... blah. Icky. Boring. I don't know, I just don't like it. I used to put solid white in the same category, but I've more recently discovered that I don't mind pure white birds who have slate legs, such as White Ameraucanas, or dark skin, like some of the Ayam Cemani hybrids I've seen. Solid Buff, I can't say the same. I just don't like that color regardless of other features the bird may have.

As for the turkey, nah, I don't like that. Same issue as with chickens. The color just doesn't do it for me.

I did see a buff turkey in show once that I thought was quite pretty, though. I actually don't recall if this was actually labelled as buff or if I'm misremembering, and I don't know turkey varieties well enough to self-correct on it.

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What about these? They aren’t so uneven and red but still have that rich coloring https://chocolateturkeys.org/buff/

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Those are a little better than the other one you posted, but I still don't like that color.

 

[MACCanadianCoop]

Those are a little better than the other one you posted, but I still don't like that color.

Agreed

 

[Cerci]

the brown horse?

The 'buff' horse.

 

[NagemTX]

Note new name Barfingtons.

 

[EmmaRainboe]

Oh man. I honestly don't care for frizzled birds, but I love her anyway. She'd be a 10/10 if she were smooth.

I don't care for buff Columbian. She's 10/10 now. If she were smooth she'd only be a 6/10

 

[EmmaRainboe]

I could be remembering wrong, but I believe Emma has said she's fine with Buff Ameraucanas.

Me, not so much. I'm not biased, I don't like the solid Buff variety on any breed.

Nope, even Ameraucanas I can't do. It's silkies I'm okay with. Somehow I missed a bunch on this thread so now everyone will be getting month old posts dug up

However if I had to choose between buff Ameraucanas vs something else I'd probably choose the Ameraucanas because they have floofy beards and lay pretty eggs, not to mention their incredible personality