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[NancyWicker]

Hi guys! Just thought I'd share a couple of pictures from earlier today of my daughter and a couple of our Lavender Orpington chicks. They're about 5 weeks old now.

 

[FuzzyButtsFarm]

Hi. I was wondering what is causing some Buff Orps to develope white ear lobes, like a Leghorn, when they get older? I know who the parents are.

 

[OSUman]

Alan said that for me to not judge his line by the current Buffs he has. He at one time gave all his best birds to Bill, and then when he started to get back into Buffs he was working with his culls. That MAYBE why we see Bill winning at the few shows out east he enters. I know Paul Montieth judged Bill's Buffs last year and said their about the best he has seen.

I wasnt meaning to have it be judged. I was trying to use it as a good example of a bird.

Read the last paragraph of the Orp description on page 102 of the 2010 SOP. "The plumage of Orpingtons is important..............etc, etc"......then read the Body and fluff description on the same page.

It is only important if you want to follow the APA SOP. If not, it doesn't matter.

Walt

Oh ok, that makes sense, yours has too much fluff too then cause it has about the same amount or more then the one I posted. I think the one I posted has shorter legs, but a deeper body not fluff.

 

[fowlman01]

I wasnt meaning to have it be judged. I was trying to use it as a good example of a bird.



Oh ok, that makes sense, yours has too much fluff too then cause it has about the same amount or more then the one I posted. I think the one I posted has shorter legs, but a deeper body not fluff.

You seem to have some issue with my position, but if the bird in the picture you posted looks round on the bottom like mine....I don't know what else to tell you.
We are obviously seeing two different things. That is just not a circular underline like mine. That bird in my profile picture does not have fluff hanging down and ruining it's bottom line. Does anyone else think the bottom lines of my Orp are the same as the bird posted by OSUman? We apparently see birds differently when we look at them. I don't necessarily think yours has shorter legs either....you just can't see the thighs because they are covered by the excess fluff giving the appearance of shorter legs.

On the bottom line right before the legs your specimen cuts in to the leg in a straight line, right after the leg it sags down again because of the fluff. It is not a semi circle at all. They are right next to each other a couple pages back.

Walt

 

[Phantom_Rooster]

Hi guys! Just thought I'd share a couple of pictures from earlier today of my daughter and a couple of our Lavender Orpington chicks. They're about 5 weeks old now.

Very, very cute. The chicks are cute also.

 

[NancyWicker]

Thanks

 

[fried green eggs]

Hi, I'm just getting into Orps this year and am in the process of building a new coop. I have some 8 wk old BO in with 6 wk old BR in my grow-out pen right now and the BR are using the roost but the buffs are still sleeping on the floor. What is a good hight to make the roost for Orps? Do I need to make a ramp for them to get to the roost?

 

[fried green eggs]

Hi, Love all the pics and I want some of each color. I have BO in a grow-out coop/run with younger BR. The BR are hopping on the feeder to hop up to the roost but the BO are still sleeping on the floor so, What height should the roost be for the LP Orps?

 

[AinaWGSD]

You seem to have some issue with my position, but if the bird in the picture you posted looks round on the bottom like mine....I don't know what else to tell you.
We are obviously seeing two different things. That is just not a circular underline like mine. That bird in my profile picture does not have fluff hanging down and ruining it's bottom line. Does anyone else think the bottom lines of my Orp are the same as the bird posted by OSUman? We apparently see birds differently when we look at them. I don't necessarily think yours has shorter legs either....you just can't see the thighs because they are covered by the excess fluff giving the appearance of shorter legs.

On the bottom line right before the legs your specimen cuts in to the leg in a straight line, right after the leg it sags down again because of the fluff. It is not a semi circle at all. They are right next to each other a couple pages back.

Walt

I can see a difference in the two birds, but until you posted about the semi-circle outline of the underline I could not quite put into words what it was. I don't know that I'd call the bottom line on the front of the second bird a "straight line" in front of the chest, but it definitely is not a smooth, continuous semi-circle. The bird posted by OSU man does have a fluffier appearance to the butt, but I don't think it is because the bird's rear is actually that much fluffier. I figured it had something to do with the amount of fluff on the legs or between the legs, but I'm terrible at putting these things into words. I also tend to have a visual of what chicken anatomy without feathers looks like, and a separate mental image of what chicken anatomy with feathers looks like and while the two aren't completely different in my mind I frequently have a hard time superimposing one upon the other mentally when looking at live birds, particularly live birds with looser/fluffier feathering. The big thing that I did notice was the amount of leg that can be seen on the two birds. Like you said, I don't think it's necessarily because the second bird has shorter legs, but the second bird has more fluff underneath which makes the legs appear shorter (or that the bird is squatting a bit instead of standing straight up).

 

[lildinkem]

I wasnt meaning to have it be judged. I was trying to use it as a good example of a bird.



Oh ok, that makes sense, yours has too much fluff too then cause it has about the same amount or more then the one I posted. I think the one I posted has shorter legs, but a deeper body not fluff.

This is what was told to me. Not saying you were.