Not a Buff orpington, right?

[Cowgrl4life]

I ordered 5 buff orpington pullets with my order from a hatchery this past week. Picked it up and all has been well, until the feathers started coming in and I'm REALLY thinking someone on their staff messed up and gave me something other than buff orpington pullets.

Some are getting almost white feathers in, and a couple of the others are getting feathers that are NOT BUFF. I'm right that they aren't buff orpington pullets right? I don't want to call and complain if they didn't do anything wrong LOL. I ordered some cockrels from them too, and those are all getting BUFF feathers, not this crazy two toned feathers and pretty much white feathers.

 

[Illia]

Well, 1) Hatcheries don't sell BUFF Orpingtons, they sell. . . washed out pale creamish whitish colored Orpingtons. 2) What color are its legs/feet? Whitish pink or yellow?

 

[Tala]

I have raised pure Buff Orpington chicks and yes they stayed buff through ALL of their molting.

Currently I am raising 4 half recessive-white colored EE roo x Buff Orpington hen, and they are coming in all shades of muddy buff to black to white wings. Because of this, I belive yours are also mixed breeds.
I disapprove of hatcheries selling mutts as purebreeds. I mean, I KNOW my chicks are all mutts and I don't care coz the eggs all taste the same, but at least I wasn't being TRICKED into thinking they were pure. Ya know?

Half BO cockerel:

Same cross, pullet:

 

[Cowgrl4life]

Uh I'm not so good at telling on the color of the legs haha In my opinion there's too fine of a line between the colors... then again leg color was never something I realized to take into consideration until just recently. Here is another of the "BO" they sent me. Maybe this will help?

 

[jossanne]

That very well could be a buff orp chick, with just a bit of off-color in its wings. It may or may not grow out. There is a lot of variation in hatchery birds. Can you get a pic of the whole chick? The down color looks right. My McMurray hatchery buff orps were colored right, but some of them had yellow legs, like buff rocks. You just never know.

That chick looks like it has yellow legs, like my buff orps from McMurray. I think they sent what you ordered, just the "quality" is going to vary.

 

[Tala]

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Eh, sorry again.
BO's have greyish-fleshy colored legs.

 

[Cowgrl4life]

I'll get pictures of the entire chick tomorrow, and maybe a group shot of what are supposed to be the 5 pullets.

 

[Cowgrl4life]

OK.First, Here is a picture of one of the cockrels they sent me, he is actually buff colored. My thinking is that if the boys are buff colored, the girls should be too right? I've noticed the fluff on the girls isn't quite as dark as that on the boys and their feathering really is not at all buff. After the cockrel there's several pics of the girls.

The girls really look nothing like buff's to me. Especially in contrast to the boys...

 

[EweSheep]

If you got yellow legs, then you got Buff Rocks.

Pink or white legs, Buff Orpingtons....as chicks they are greyish pinkish, not yellow.

Bottom of Orpington feet should be fleshy colored or white colored, not yellow.

 

[TXmom]

Don't look like Buff Orps to me, either. Maybe Gold Sexlinks?