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[Fat Chick]

Awww- you are SO proud of yourself for purchasing that rooster!
Keep up the great work....posting pics of the same rooster that you bought from somebody else.
Great job!

 

[jeremy]

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/638208/buff-orpington-pullet-or-hen

 

[lildinkem]

Won't be too long and I will be hatching out the first of many White Orps from this outstanding and commanding White Orp cockerel. This weekend will be the first to hatch of many I hope for this season.
Today the Buff Orps are the most built up to EXHIBITION quality. A 100 years ago it was the the Whites which were what everyone had and shown. Nowadays there is less then 10 EXHIBITION quality White Orp breeders who SHOW, BREED, and SHARE this variety in the USA.
Here is my boy who is from a very close friend who is one of the best EXHIBITION White Orp breeders in the USA.


Very hard to find any Whites with this nice tail



And just as few which have this width. Allan had shared his site and this boy has some common blood with Allan's great big beatiful Whites.


I plan is to breed the same way for my White flock as my friend MN, who is also in the top 10 EXHIBITION breeders of Whites in the USA.
Here is his birds which dropped jaws in the Iowa Show of last fall. He also used Buff Sports and White Wyandottes to makes these gorgeous birds. Pics were taken by another good friend and GREAT WHITE WYANDOTTE and Faverolle breeder Jonathen Patterson who clerked at that show in Iowa. Thank you Jonathan for sharing with us these pics.
Look at them and DRUEL!! I know I am!
These were made from Bob Coulter Buff Sports.

 

[galanie]

 

[lildinkem]

An interesting update on my big Buff Sport cock I have. I was encouraged by a couple of our best Orp breeders to take a Buff Sport to a Black to see what would pop out. Since this Buff Sport is a good size boy with great type I thought of using the same two very average Black hens I had in there with him from last summer which are Mottleds. One of which looks like a hatchery quality at best. the other has very nice round full breast but is a bit on the smaller side. So I thought why not find out what you get when you breed a Buff Sport to them just to see.
Results are very encouraging. The White gene is recessive. And will show in day ole chicks as a White spot on their heads. Yesterday 2 hatched out. Both are nice little round puff ballz. And both have that White spot.
Why would one like this? Well as I may have mentioned before. Buffs are the variety which has been most built up for Exhibition. While this fella is no Coulter or Akers quality Buff Sport. He is Pontious and Hoosier Hatchery and has the same daddy who won the INDIANA STATE FAIR in 2010 Junior Show. And this boy is huge with great type. So, by getting these little chicks which can be used with both WHITE and BLACK gives a great new option for any Black or White breeder to build up their lines with new blood that has QUALITY EXHIBITION BLOOD in them. And to my EXHIBITION friends I will share. That means you Harry!!! lololol

The little tot. One of two I hatched out yesterday.
TIME NOW TO BRING IN THAT FANTASTIC BLACK PULLET who is laying to be breed to the Buff Sport cockerel.
Can't wait to see what comes out of that breeding. Again these chicks can be taken to both Black and White! YIPPPPPPEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!! FUN FUN FUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[HenThymes]

Bill, I think it is a very good chance that you may find that chick being barred as it feathers in.. The white spot on the head is a very good indication of that.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Some of our Drew County 4-H Poultry Club's newest additions!



Self Blue d'Anver owned by Monticello Moderns aka Juliechick
Self Blue Old English Game Bantam owned by Drew County 4-H Poultry Club
Self Blue Cochin Bantam and
Self Blue Orpington LF owned by Hall Family Poultry.

Photo courtesy juliechick.

 

[HallFamilyFarm]

Bill, I think it is a very good chance that you may find that chick being barred as it feathers in.. The white spot on the head is a very good indication of that.

A Cuckoo Orpington...Hmmmm, sounds pretty!

 

[lildinkem]

Bill, I think it is a very good chance that you may find that chick being barred as it feathers in.. The white spot on the head is a very good indication of that.

Hi Tricia
NICE to have these birds. Almost as exciting to me is I have been procrastinating on moving my Silver Duckwing pullet out of this pen and into a pen with my Dickerson Marans Cuckoo to make Crele. And she has been laying nice dark Marans 5 or 6 on the scale in egg color. All her eggs are fertile and the males in with her are these Cuckoo Orp boys. one is the Blue Cuckoo and one is the Black and White Cuckoo. So, MAYBE Silver Crele Cuckoo Orps maybe in my future here someday. These ofcourse will be project birds till I have had them for 5 generations. BUT, I am very happy to be able to use them in with her.
Their something else.
Very happy with these boys type!

 

[HenThymes]

I have some cuckoo in bantams growing out now, can't wait to see them fully feathered in!! Awesome to see you will have some in LF and I with bantams!

Picture taken just this evening, this group looks to be a cockerel & two pullets.