Is there such a chicken as a PARTRIDGE ORPINGTON?

[hypnofrogstevie]

I must say that I am jealous! She is adorable

 

[keeperofthehearth]

Ooooo, She is beautiful!!!!
I do wish we had as many color variations as in the U.K.
I belive Barnevelders are more popular there, am I correct? And do they come in more than the double laced over your way?

 

[Katy]

She's very pretty....I wish we had them over here!!

 

[scgamecock]

I've got a Partridge Rock that has the most beautiful lacing.I could just imagine a hen the size of an Orpington like her.

 

[CarlaRiggs]

Where did you get this hen? She's very pretty... love the lacing.

I wish we had the different variations that England seems to have, also. It seems as if backyard chickens are beginning to take off in the US, though. So perhaps it's just a matter of time before we have all the different colorings.

I hope.

Carla

 

[fallenweeble]

orphs of any color are so neat - i love that their rear ends take up like 90% of their body mass!

i saw some at the show i went to last month and i was really knocked out by the breed. sigh, "someday . . . ."
anywhoo, your chickens are really really lovely and that partridge color is stunning.

 

[rachelb]

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Hi Carla. I live in oxfordshire, uk and bought these two chickens locally from a farmer. I am a complete novice so don't know a lot about the different breeds of chickens. Suffice to say that my ladies are lovely and fluffy, very friendly and always looking for something to eat. I gave them some yoghurt today for the first time and they did not really know what to make of it. We are having a really cold snap at the moment so I am not seeing much of them at the mo as they are keepng themselves inside out of the cold, cold wind. I am so looking forward to the summer. Happy Easter. Rachel B

 

[ozark hen]

wow, Rachel, the hens are lovely but especially the partridge!! Wish we could get that color here.

 

[Professional]

I'm not going to say that they don't exist, because you never know what project someone is going to work on next, but the British Standard does not recognize Orpingtons in Partridge. Besides, the tail on that bird resembles a Rock more than it does an Orpington. I'm guessing that someone took advantage of her breed naivety, or else just didn't know himself.

I used to envy the Europeans the many breeds which they have which we do not. Things like Augsburgers, Brakel, Breda, Friesian, Marsh Daisy, Norfolk Grey, North Holland Blue, many different games, many different Belgian bants besides d'Anvers and d'Uccle, Scots Dumpy, Sulmtaler, various Japanese breeds, Brabanters, Owl Beards, the beautiful Dutch Kraaikop, Eikenburgers, French Guineas, and the list goes on and on. Still, we do have some things that they don't. I've always been somewhat proud (boastful) that our American breeds have been so desireable, that just about every other country has seen the need to use and recognize them. The Narragansett is pretty much our only native poultry breed which hasn't caught on worldwide. The Brits are starting to catch up to our Call ducks, but for years they were nowhere near as nice as ours. The quality of our geese is far and above theirs. Most of the bigger, hard to hide birds like that were wiped out during the war. Oweing to the scarcity of land, and the difficulty in hatching large numbers, geese never really rebounded there in good quality, until recent imports from the US in the past decade or so brought back some new blood

The Brits and the other Europeans do have something far ahead of us, and that is their common sense and their still somewhat close association with, or at least toleration for agriculture. Although I understand that even now in England this is starting to change, by and large, they don't see it as the end of the world if heaven forbid the neighbor in a residential area decides to raise a few chickens, including a rooster. It's no wonder much of the rest of the world sees Americans as spoiled fools.

 

[Guitartists]

That is a gorgeous hen! I love her coloring!!