Russian Orloffs

[Goose and Fig]

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Hmmmmm. Looks more like a spangled Asil. Not sure about the comb though. I wish my Orloff roo had color like that.

 

[HaikuHeritageFarm]

Hm, interesting. I wonder if that's what you get with a Chantecler x Orloff cross, because unless WW lends me her cockerel at some point, I'm going to have a bunch of those crosses!

 

[foxflower]

Well, he's wilder than all get-out. He must be a cross with something, 'cause he has zero comb (cushion comb) like the chanteclers. Asee/Asil's are supposed to have a pea comb (so says Storey's Illustrated guide to Poultry). His body type looks like the Aseel/Asil--probably personality too. I think he's going to be dinner unless somebody wants him. He's pretty if somebody likes gamebirds. Thanks for the input.

 

[foxflower]

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I'd be interested to see the pictures of those crosses if you do! If that's what mine is, I don't recommend them---crazy flighty, even after some handling as a chick for lots of "what's this?" pictures as a chick. And I even like some flighty birds like campines.

 

[TomNY]

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Kraienkoppe......I'm sure Sandhill has them. Tom

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Looks like some sort of gamebird...??

 

[Wolfwoman]

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We can might do that

You want to be in charge of a $75 chicken??

And that's IF he's a boy... after all this it'll end up being a girl!!

 

[foxflower]

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Kraienkoppe......I'm sure Sandhill has them. Tom

Well, I wish it was an Orloff, whatever it is! It's too crazy and different from my other birds to keep. If it was a hen I'd consider it, but since it's not, bye-bye birdie. Thanks for straightening me out on this one

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

It looks like a cockerel to me??? I think I see some saddle feathers coming in...

What did Sandhill have on your invoice? I would call them and tell them they messed up--unless you said you'd take subs?

 

[foxflower]

It said Chantecler on the invoice, but I'm not going to complain because as it is they sent me 15 other extra birds from the breeds on my order, and it was only 1 small mistake. As a day-old chick it definitely looked like a buff chantecler. Only after a few wing feathers started coming in did it look different. I thought maybe they had a chantecler/orloff project going on. It maybe a project bird, because the comb is wrong to be pure Asil, the color wrong to be pure Kraienkoppe, etc,etc. I received a total of 66 chicks from them alive and well. I'm not real happy with the quality of some of them, but now I have an incubator, so I can hatch eggs from breeders instead of ordering from hatcheries. But back to Orloffs.....I wasn't meaning to hyjack the thread. I read through all the posts, and is seems the Orloffs stop laying much after the pullet year because of broodiness? This was not indicated in Storey's Illustrated Guide to Poultry. I just says that the stop laying much. I thought it was just because of poor laying ability. Do the make good mothers then? Are they valuable after the pullet year as broodies and mamas for other breeds?