Jubilee Orpington - Speckled Sussex -Heavy Graphics

[Katy]

They're looking good Charlie!

 

[EweSheep]

Wow, Charlie, looks like you have a lot of work to do!

 

[wilds of pa]

Thanks Gals... yes but its fun..cant wait till they grow out more..

i know the Diamond jubs will look good as they have alot of buff blood in them and size should be good to, as for the mottles we will have to recross these chicks next year to see any full mottling because of the recross to black orps again but size and type should be there..

The reg jubs we'll have to wait and see on those, as to size wise but color should be there

In the end id think it will be all good, will have lots of birds to play with and work with...

 

[EweSheep]

Build more pens too!

 

[chook-in-eire]

@wilds of pa
You mention "Diamond Jubs" and "regular Jubs"? Did you take that distinction from http://www.jubileeorpingtons.co.uk/ ?

 

[crazyhen]

This is sooo interesting. I am not a breeder but do you know anyone with a mille fleur orp? I bet they also would be absolutely beautiful. Gloria Jean

 

[lildinkem]

Here is my accidental boy. Pumkinhead
Since his uncle Roscoe commited suicide by sneaking under the fence into Flozelle's pen, my Black Orp, and got his clock cleaned and promptly croaked the following nite. This guy gets the only SS girl I have left. And I have his SS/BO sis in the same pen to play with.
So it is a very slow start. But, I will try it out and see what pops out.
I LOVE the SS look. It would be a great new addition to the varieties that are here.

 

[wilds of pa]

chook-in-eire...basically yes, we want the dark type and the lighter color in the two jubilee projects..appears to be working out so far. we had a few buff mottles from the project last year which we just re homed recently, bet they will be really nice once they molt..

EweSheep we got a few empty coops (5 to be exact) sitting here waiting to receive the brooder chicks. right now we are down to a basic skeleton crew, think we have about 70-75 adult chickens but over 150 chicks so far and more hatching, our girls just will not stop laying... lol

crazyhen these are basically Milli but going orp style as jubilee using different gen combos to get what we want., two colors/variety wanted.. we may cross the black mottled down the road against some these as well, to see what happens. gonna be awhile, but we like it, so it wont end anytime soon.

 

[chook-in-eire]

@ wilds of pa

I know there are differences in ground colour (I have lighter and darker birds here), but I think - actually I am very sure - that these names (Diamond Jubilee vs. Jubilee) are the result of some misunderstanding between Jane and the German breeder she visited. Lost in translation, you could say. My native language is German and I made that chart posted earlier, based on the German Orpington association's centenary publication which outlines the development of the Jubilee Orp. in Germany in much detail. I am also familiar with the German standard and have read the Orpington associations website. Nowhere is this distinction made. In German they are simply called "braun-porzellanfarbig" (brown-porcelain). So, to say, that in Germany the lighter coloured ones are referred to as Diamond Jubilee is, IMHO, fantasy. (In the book, they even mistranslated the word 'jubilee'. The word, or its German equivalent, is not used in the breed description or the standard.) Indeed, the advice I got from one of the German top breeders is, that to achieve the correct ground colour one should always mate darker ones with lighter ones.
I might get hung up about semantics here, but I'm just trying to prevent a myth from spreading further.

 

[wilds of pa]

just my thought..i like the myth, but it is possible to have two tones in these birds....no matter what it is there the name is implying here what we call it. Jubilee and Diamond Jubilee is here to stay and we are working on it..