Orpingtons - An ocean apart??

[BooBear]

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OK, this is making me hungry.

I love home grown chicken! The size on these beauties is awesome. Wish my Wyandottes had more size.
I will finish catching up when I get home. Really like the overall shape of the English Orps.

 

[aveca]

Walt, I'll tell him not to over work himself on those wisps of cotton , and thats exactly what they look like..they dont appear to have any kind of real feather stub to me.. he just adores these birds and has such high hopes for them..I did tell him that he will probably never see them again ..the hens are all clean legged. my lord thats a great looking rooster too..he looks like the picture of brown leghorn perfection to me..cant see scrapping the whole breeding program over something you need a microscope to see. they are above the shank except for one that is just iffy on shank ? or just above? Im no expert on that where the line begins and ends..LOL he thought they were vulture hocks, I said my lord no..showed him a couple pics of what actual vulture hocks look like...and description in standard.had to pick on him a little about that one, asked him at work, how are those old brown turkey vultures doing?hee hee

I was going to take pictures of it to use in here as an example and good discussion on what do you do about this on brown leghorn but camera keeps freezing up..I might try to change up the memory card and see if that makes a difference..the last picture I took was this of the blk orp cockeral I got from Jody..Love this guy and going to show him at bath and coboskill..I kept telling myself for long time they were mostly girls but nope. sat in my lawn chair one morning with the fruit smoothie and it became clear who was who by big muffled but loud crows..I just wanted to beleive this was a huge pullet but gonna be a fine show cockeral..right after I took these pics camra went kaput and its almost braND NEW..hopefully I can get it straightned out befor shows start.this was month and 1/2 ago, lots changed since then. bigger and handsome with a great face. he just has lots of substance and seems balanced at this point.

 

[fowlman01]

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He looks very good at this point.

Walt

 

[spish]

can i add my 'belgian' orpingtons(!) to the thread......im not quite sure where they originated from but i bought mine from a breeder here in belgium...somewhere up the line one of the parents came from Germany.....but before that im not sure where the family tree goes back to .....

i have at the moment a black, a blue, and a lavender hen, also a trio buff, i also had a wonderful cuckoo roo but he didnt make it through the winter sadly

((

 

[jeremy]

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spish, your birds are GORGEOUS!

Please post these pictures to the Imported thread too, we love to see the European type of Orpington, https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=386051

 

[ChickInDelight]

Here is my precious Buffy - from the feed store chick.

 

[aveca]

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He looks very good at this point.

Walt

hey Walt, we took him to twin tiers poultry show , at just about 7 months he was really at his peak..couldnt look better..its a real nice show , has three judges every year. and people from all over show up, a lot are following breed specials and points they were from ,ohio, maryland , virginia, ny, p, nj ect..a its a pretty good time..super nice people who really want to see you do your best..we took off from the show for a while and had some lunch ect..toured some winerys , when we got back he had won BB, BV, Reserve champion english, and best orpington award..i didnt know weather to laugh or cry. i seriously had my mind made up that the dark cornish had the reserve english sewn up boy he was a picture of perfection to me..im pretty hard on myself thou..and see only flaws .seems we were better..no way to beat bob whitneys australorp hen shes as near perfect as a chicken can be..we worked really hard to get there... was a whole summers labor of love for sure.. sadley the coboskill show was cancelled the whole area was flooded , fairgrounds had been underwater..you have never seen such a mess in your whole life..there is a table set up at the show every year for poultry press..i had no idea you could run one of those little thank you ads there or i would have done that..all the years i have gone there and i never knew what they were there for, thought they were just taking subscription orders..duh lynne.

earlier pic at about 5 mos.
forgive my photo, photographer i am not..if there is a bad pose i usually find it.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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Oo my goodness!! Gorgeous, just gorgeous! Your Lav hen and Buffs are sooo 'purdy!!

Aspen

 

[fowlman01]

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He looks very good at this point.

Walt

hey Walt, we took him to twin tiers poultry show , at just about 7 months he was really at his peak..couldnt look better..its a real nice show , has three judges every year. and people from all over show up, a lot are following breed specials and points they were from ,ohio, maryland , virginia, ny, p, nj ect..a its a pretty good time..super nice people who really want to see you do your best..we took off from the show for a while and had some lunch ect..toured some winerys , when we got back he had won BB, BV, Reserve champion english, and best orpington award..i didnt know weather to laugh or cry. i seriously had my mind made up that the dark cornish had the reserve english sewn up boy he was a picture of perfection to me..im pretty hard on myself thou..and see only flaws .seems we were better..no way to beat bob whitneys australorp hen shes as near perfect as a chicken can be..we worked really hard to get there... was a whole summers labor of love for sure.. sadley the coboskill show was cancelled the whole area was flooded , fairgrounds had been underwater..you have never seen such a mess in your whole life..there is a table set up at the show every year for poultry press..i had no idea you could run one of those little thank you ads there or i would have done that..all the years i have gone there and i never knew what they were there for, thought they were just taking subscription orders..duh lynne.

earlier pic at about 5 mos.
forgive my photo, photographer i am not..if there is a bad pose i usually find it.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/35675_poultryshow2.png

I can see enough to know that he is a very good boy. From the looks of him he will do even better when he gets a bit older. He looks great right now! Good job!!

Before a show my birds always look great. As I pack them up they start to look less great and when I get to the show Friday night they look horrible to me, but we always do OK. I just start picking them apart.


You folks got a lot of water back there.

WAlt

 

[spish]

i shall post them to the other thread too then