Jubilee Orpington - Speckled Sussex -Heavy Graphics

[herechickchick]

After looking at photos of mottled cochins and Sliver spangled hamburgs, the mottles looks to be a black feather with a white tip, like the artist rendering of the orpington. Spangled seems to be a white feather tipped in black. Of course this could just be two countries using different terms for the same thing which is pretty common ex: Subway (USA) Underground or tube (UK). Just my 2cents and I could be wrong (it would not be the first time

) Thanks Miss Prissy for the awesome info! This is really cool and interesting.

 

[ksacres]

Spangling and mottling are caused by two seperate genes, although they do tend to look similiar.

 

[ChicknThief]

This whole thing was VERY interesting!! I feel extremely enlightened! Keep em coming!

 

[jab91864]

Great info !!!! Thanks for sharing !!!

Here is a link for the "motherlode" of Orp pics !!!

http://www.orpington.nl/nieuwe foto-album.html


Warning if you are on dial up you will be there a long time...lol

Julie

 

[KKluckers]

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Cyn- I cant say for certian if its yours or not. Im kinda thinking not because of the problems I had with yellow skin.

The three girls I ended up keeping from the hatch two of them look exactly the same....

I should of banded her a hatch. She is only three months so maybe her eyes will darken, but who knows. From what I hear blue is a really hard colour to work with. Im guessing it is going to take me quite a few years to get everything right and that is if Im lucky. Its seems if a bird has good lacing it is lacking in another area. Im always up for a challenge.

I just dont know why there are not more breeders of these big blue beautiful birds. With everyone on this board Im sure that will change with time. I know Suede and Blue boy are hard to resist.

 

[speckledhen]

Well, more Suede babies are being hatched all over the place. It does seem that it's a hard color to breed correctly from all I've read. If anything happens to my sweet Suede, I sure hope I have one of his chicks as a backup. I feel we are priviledged to own these beautiful blues. There are a sire and dam in each chick's genes so if one could make up for any minor weakness in the other, I think, like the eye color. I plan to keep only the pullets with the darkest eyes to overcome the lightness of Suede's.

 

[skeeter9]

Prissy, I've been drooling over pictures of the Jubilee and Spangled Orps on the UK sites for months now!!! Thanks for posting that info - it is very interesting!!

Lori

 

[kstaven]

Interesting information. But I must say that any Jubilee Orpington I have had the pleasure of seeing looks nothing like the sussex and is quite true to the Orpington TYPE.

If this was once true the sussex has lost a lot of features along the way. Much like many other breeds have.

 

[Buster]

I grew tired of searching for these great articles that MissPrissy posted so I am posting here to put it in my posts for easier access.

Thanks for the articles MP!

 

[MissPrissy]

I have plenty more I can scan later.