Calling All Orpington Gurus!!

[MysteryChicken]

I was thinking about that!! That would be interested!! Ohhh I’m loving this idea.... the love shack will be occupied by the end of this thread

I'd say so .

 

[CrazyClucks]

Since you have blue and splash you could do a blue roo. Blue x Blue makes black, blue and splash. Blue x Splash makes blue and splash

this is very true!! I didn’t even think of this!! Thank you for bringing this to my attention!

 

[Painted Calls]

You beat me to it.

X 2

 

[The Moonshiner]

Really depends on what youre wanting.
Blue, black and splash all breed together as does lavender and black. Those are all colors and then you have mottled which is a pattern. You can put mottling on all those colors.
Idk but if you can find something of one of those colors thats barred you could bring in barring and put it on all those.
The jubilee is such a different pattern all together I would look to crossing it without expecting just a messy mixed pattern.

 

[CrazyClucks]

Yes Cochins rule but happy doesn’t think so. He loves orps... so if you have any questions about orps just ask Happy.

Glad I’m figuring out the “Head of the Masters” real quick now I know who to ask for each breed lol

 

[CrazyClucks]

Really depends on what youre wanting.
Blue, black and splash all breed together as does lavender and black. Those are all colors and then you have mottled which is a pattern. You can put mottling on all those colors.
Idk but if you can find something of one of those colors thats barred you could bring in barring and put it on all those.
The jubilee is such a different pattern all together I would look to crossing it without expecting just a messy mixed pattern.

ahhh this is great reasoning. The jubilee was perplexing me but now I can just cross her out of the equation at the moment until I feel another wild hair coming lol. And if I brought in a barred breed which would you suggest? I have a lemon cuckoo but he’s not as filled out as I’d like and I’m worried he’ll make some weeeeird colors lol

 

[CrazyClucks]

Sorry we've taken over your thread with our chatter.
I hate to admit it (i'm on the cochin side) but your orps are STUNNING! Your rooster is a VERy handsome boy.

Thank you VERY much! I’m super proud of that big boy! He does have some yellowing to me but I’m going to try to breed that out! Fingers crossed it all goes as planned!

 

[black_cat]

Thank you VERY much! I’m super proud of that big boy! He does have some yellowing to me but I’m going to try to breed that out! Fingers crossed it all goes as planned!

In my very unofficial uneducated opinion, he's perfect

 

[The Moonshiner]

Breed the LC to the jubilee. He has the barring gene. She has the mottled gene. Besides that theyre fairly close. LC has a dilute gene that changes red to buff and a gene to remove the black tail.
You can get some interesting varieties from crossing that pairs offspring.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Splash, cuckoo would look neat .