Orpington project

[bigz1983]

Hey everyone I have a Orpington breeding project I'm working on.
I bought a Jubilee Orpington rooster 2 months ago and I didn't have any Jubilee Orpington hens.
So I traded a dozen of my large fowl Blue/Splash Cochin eggs for a dozen Jubilee Orpington hatching eggs.
Out of the 1 dozen Jubilee orpington hatching eggs only 5 hatched.
They are 7 weeks old now and it looks like only 2 are pullets.
I had a couple buff Orpington hens that I crossed with my Jubilee Orpington rooster and I put those eggs in with the Jubilee eggs.
3 of those hatched same time as the Jubilee eggs.
What would those chickens be called Jubilee Orpington rooster X Buff Orpington hen=Red Orpington?
I have attached some pics of them.
They look like kind of like a Buff Orpington but a shade darker.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

They are not dark enough to be Red, so no, they are not Red Orpingtons.

Breeding Jubilee and Buff together does not make any specific variety. The two varieties have some genes in common, but many that differ as well. For instance, Jubilee does not have the diluter that turns Red into Buff, while Buff doesn't have the mottling gene that gives Jubilee its spots. All of these genes where the two parent varieties differ, these birds are heterozygous for, having gotten one version of the gene from one parent and another version from the other. Because of this, they will throw many different patterns and shades when bred together. So they aren't dark Buff Orpingtons, either, because they won't breed true for color.

The most accurate thing you can call them is mixed color Orpingtons.

 

[bigz1983]

They are not dark enough to be Red, so no, they are not Red Orpingtons.

Breeding Jubilee and Buff together does not make any specific variety. The two varieties have some genes in common, but many that differ as well. For instance, Jubilee does not have the diluter that turns Red into Buff, while Buff doesn't have the mottling gene that gives Jubilee its spots. All of these genes where the two parent varieties differ, these birds are heterozygous for, having gotten one version of the gene from one parent and another version from the other. Because of this, they will throw many different patterns and shades when bred together. So they aren't dark Buff Orpingtons, either, because they won't breed true for color.

The most accurate thing you can call them is mixed color Orpingtons.

Oh ok.
What I'm really trying to do is breed a clean legged, standard size, dual purpose chicken that has the tendency to go broody.
I have large fowl Cochins and they are dual purpose.
They go broody but they have feathered feet.
I don't like feathered feet because they get muddy and it's harder to see/treat scaly leg mite infestations.