Rare Orpingtons?

[MysteryChicken]

What is he crossed with? His color is so pretty! Reminds me of a cuckoo orp X buff cockerel that I had

Buff Orpington/Barred Rock rooster over a Buff Orpington/Australorp hen.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I'm working on breeding my own strain of crele Orpingtons.

Here's were you need to be careful what you say.
You're breeding Orpington mixes that aren't crele.
The OP is looking for true rare varieties of Orpington.
You come across someone like that and sell them birds then they raise them and breed them they will soon discover what they have aren't breed pure and aren't crele they may be beyond a little upset with you.

 

[Gray Farms]

Here's were you need to be careful what you say.
You're breeding Orpington mixes that aren't crele.
The OP is looking for true rare varieties of Orpington.
You come across someone like that and sell them birds then they raise them and breed them they will soon discover what they have aren't breed pure and aren't crele they may be beyond a little upset with you.

Agreed

 

[MysteryChicken]

Here's were you need to be careful what you say.
You're breeding Orpington mixes that aren't crele.
The OP is looking for true rare varieties of Orpington.
You come across someone like that and sell them birds then they raise them and breed them they will soon discover what they have aren't breed pure and aren't crele they may be beyond a little upset with you.

I'm not even done with my project yet. Don't judge until you see actual results. Here's my female chick.

 

[The Moonshiner]

I'm just commenting.
Your buyers will be the ones judging you when your selling them something that isn't what you say it is.

 

[Gray Farms]

I'm just commenting.
Your buyers will be the ones judging you when your selling them something that isn't what you say it is.

Agreed. You can't really call them Orpingtons.

 

[MysteryChicken]

Agreed. You can't really call them Orpingtons.

They're only 80% Orpington right now, I'll be fixing flaws that appear upon my breeding project.
If my birds aren't Orpingtons at project stage, then all project birds would be mutts, since they're mixed to get new coloring.

I'm just going to unwatch this thread if nobody is going to give me credit for my genetics project, in my practice to become a serious chicken breeder, & ruin my self-esteem. I've been studying really, really hard in chicken color genetics.

 

[The Moonshiner]

So a Buff Orpington/Barred Rock rooster over a Buff Orpington/Australorp hen equals an 80% Orpington?
Is that that "new math" people talk about?

 

[flgardengirl]

I had to resort to ebay for eggs. Be sure to look at feedback and also check if the seller has a facebook or website showing their birds. You can usually get a bit of an idea of what you are getting IF the eggs hatch. Its a huge gamble. I got 12 Isabel Cuckoo eggs from a seller and only 2 chicks hatched. It seems they may be a pair. I am still kinda holding my breath as they are still feathering in lol.

 

[ColtHandorf]

I know of several breeders with different colored English Orpingtons in the states both here on the forum and elsewhere. You might check out the Imported English Orpington thread:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/the-imported-english-orpington-thread.386051/

Greenfire Farms also has a variety of English Orpingtons. I just found a local (ish) breeders that has just about every variety you can imagine. I'm going to get some chicks from him this Sunday to raise with the single I just hatched out of my Silver-laced.

Texas is a large state, but there are several breeders I know of in Texas or Oklahoma. Were you wanting hatching eggs, chicks, breeders?

Don't judge until you see actual results.

No one is judging those birds. Experienced breeders that actually work with English Orpingtons are stating facts. Those birds are not Orpingtons despite having Orpington in them. I'm not sure how many times people have to tell you the same thing before you actually hear and believe them. They are pretty, but they are barnyard mixes. Crele Orpingtons need white skin which your pullet most certainly doesn't have. The rooster has too many points on his comb along with a number of other defects. You have at least a decade of work before you can call them Orpingtons. And sometime in that decade you'll learn the colors don't breed true and abandon it. Why in the world would you waste all that time and money when you could buy Creles that have been imported from Europe that have the correct genes and type?