Daughter of BUSTOFF and one of my lesser quality Black Orp hen.
Here is my entry in the Mottled or Spangled world of Orpingtons.
All cause of this BUS and his girls (REJECTS!)
Until they ever get accepted into the Standard of Perfection, MARANS are MUTTS! At least here in the USA. And even more of a MARANS MUTT is the BIRCHEN MARANS variety. Maybe the most MUTTLY purebred of them all.
With that proper introduction
Here is the most recent, and outta molt BRUNO the Birchen MARANS cock from Betty Jo Aldrich lines picture.
What a boy!
Has ORPINGTON Birchen project bird written all under them feathers.
You can see a sliver of Bruno's chest in this pic. Nice chest boy!
Love your excuse. Well, they won't be mutts come next year . . .
Birchens will always be mutts in the Marans world. just like Jubliee Orpingtons are here. Are they a purebred, just not accepted by our SOP yet. And the BCMs, Wheatons and a very select few MAY be accepted eventually, but I would hold my beathe for my Bruno andd the Birchen Marans. I don't think their accepted even in the French Sytandards
This is Scar, he got his name because we got lots of scars trying to rescue him, he was abandoned with another roo! he looks really similar to the famous Nugget!