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[Goose and Fig]

Very fun Bill! I am in love with the silver duckwing girls. Playing around with some lav cuckoo here as well, but not in orps. Yet!

 

[DuckLady]

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[galanie]

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I also love my blue Orp -- she is giving me eggs, these are the 1st two! (one cold, one warm, apparently she started yesterday)
She was sitting on them like a pro ... I could imagine her thinking to herself "I'm gonna HATCH THESE!"

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/85907_111711.jpg

I gave her a treat and pet her back - now she is doing that funky dance too. I am tickled pink @ the milestones

Quick question: at what age is an orpington hen considered full grown?

Here she is a week or so ago:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/85907_1bon.jpg

another question: why do a few of her feathers have "black smudges" in them? (not dirt lol)

My theory is, that no one will answer till someone answers wrong, then all will jump in! So since no one did, here's my try:

The black smudges are called "pepper" and considered a fault. But a hen with peppering can throw some nice buffs.
Orps are considered full grown at around 18 months.
Pretty birdies

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

At Crossroads I looked carefully over that Brown Red cockerel. It may still be a project bird, but it had great Brown Red coloring and excellent Orpington type. No matter what its parents were, it is a Brown Red Orpington. Now can that be repeated in its offspring? Only time and chicks will tell.

Has anyone mated an English type clean legged Cuckoo Marans to a Buff Orpington? A friend was asking me about that the other day.

 

[lildinkem]

I am just having fun with my projects. I am dedicated to the standards with quality purebred birds. And as many have siad we got these unusual new varieties either from import or making them ourselves. I prefer to make em ourselves. In the beginning of the year the guy from the UK actually called me several times to be the ones to bring in these other UK varieties. And I said I get more from making them myself. And that is a fact. I like my birds I make I pay for the feed bill. And most importantly, I AM HAVING FUN!

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Its probably the closest breed (readily available) you can use to introduce new color. I used one that lays very pale eggs in my ameraucana project. At least I don't have to worry about skin color.

 

[OSUman]

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Why wouldnt you just use a cuckoo orpington??

 

[daytonfarm]

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I have one cuckoo maran/black orp cross (by mistake, that cuckoo maran slipped her egg under a broody). I got a cockerel out of it that is just gorgeous. I'm keeping him around just to add color to my black and blue group! He has beautiful barring and is gigantic. His leg color is odd white with slate blotches.

Here is a picture of him with his hatch mates as chicks, they are full orpington. Not sure why he got so big, his mom is just a small hatchery cuckoo maran, but he is as big as the other full orp cockerels

 

[wilds of pa]

some of our white orps hide cuckoo and right now they are in with a big o'l fluffy ORP lavender roo. will be test hatching some soon, ya thats right during the winter, our brooders in the warm garage are all empty..not for long..lol, just to think, they will all be basically 100% orps already..

Just waiting for the girls to kick back in laying.. Molts are just complete in most of the pens here.
Thanks goodness for that with the darn cold coming on.. in the 20's this morning here.. all my wild pen waters were froze up, so will be doing there winter waters today.

Hinkjc smart Woman, she is prepared and had all the coops loaded with there water heaters 2 weeks ago all ready.., unlike me, dang i should have listen to her..

Waiting to start laying:
Black orps
#1 coop white orp w/ lav roo
#2 coop white orp
6.5 gen split Lavender Orp
4th gen LF Lav Araucana
LF White araucana
LF Mixed Color pen Araucana
#2 coop buff orp

2012 spring lay wilds
Pure Wild Eastern turkey
Pea cocks
Edward Pheasants
Ringneck/Mutant Pheasants
White bobwhite & ~Monsters~

started Laying:
Lemon cuckoo orp
Mottled Orp
1/2 of #1 coop Buff Orp

 

[Beth G.]

Hey us womans are always preparing for our little ones

It was mighty cold here in CT This morning!! All my waterers had a thin layer of ice! I switched all my waterers to rubber tubs for easy dump and refill daily. I wish I could do the heated waterers but, the DH doesn't want the electric bill

So, White with Lav? Very interesting lav cuckoo?
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