Odd Colored Orpingtons

[Tony]

These are the offspring from my "Rainbow Orpingtons" I posted pics of last year.





I have no clue why these turned out this way, NONE of my birds carry any type of gene for barring, unfortunately I think they`re all roos, so only time will tell if they will be keepers or not.

Link to pics of the parents for those who may not have seen them last year.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=124792

 

[MidnightChickenLover]

looks like a lemon mille fleur coloring... with a hint of cuckoo...
You have beautiful roosters, i looked at the other thread.. what colors did you breed to get that second one?

 

[Tony]

All of the birds came from blue orp roo`s with 2 buffs and a black hen.
I purchased the 2 buff hens 2 years ago from a woman who responded to an ad I had put out looking for orpington hens for my blue roo`s. I do not know their backround, so whatever little color genes they might or not have been hiding is a mystery to me.

 

[onthespot]

I have blue marans that hide the same sort of genes, which I do not care for and am going to get rid of them. For some reason the barring does not show up very well on the blue hens but it shows up as really poor cuckoo on the babies. It is not normal blue cuckoo, because I had a rooster that was blue cuckoo and his stripes were normal. Here is the hen's plumage, where you can see the faint barring, and then there is the blue cuckoo rooster (who is not the father of any of the marans chicks) and his bars are distinct.
Hen:

Blue Cuckoo Rooster

 

[tiffanyh]

TONY! Long time.....

How funny about the barring, check out my recent barring post on my orpingtons. Are your barring orpingtons any of the ones from me???

Your rooster (if it is the same blue roo you have had for a while) is the brother of my chicks grandfather.........you got him from a women who got him from me as a straight run chick. That batch was hatched from a member here....


https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=219564

 

[catwalk]

Is that first chick green and purple?

 

[Tony]

Hi Tiffany, yes, these are related to yours you gave me, the grandfather was the blue orp roo I got from the BYC member you sold the chicks to.
Hmmm...maybe...possibly this is YOUR fault I got barring!! lol j/k!

Hi Catwalk, nope, that chick is not purple and green, EVERY other color, but no purple/green lol

 

[MidnightChickenLover]

wow, I thought Opringtons were all solid colors.. hmm, what next?! Hahaha

 

[tiffanyh]

So the barring is something in the line probably that we have, we are both refering to baring on the "grandchildren" of our brother roosters. Hmmm.......

 

[Tony]

I have no clue where the barring might have originated, and realistically speaking, we will probably never figure it out, but I`m not complaining, it could be kinda fun to play around with and see what cool colors futher generations hatch out.