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Yah, after a while of reading and whatnot, I kinda figured he wasn't but did retain some of the qualities. If anything though it made me really get an interest in the breed in itself
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What? Why isn't he full blood? Because of the white-ish legs? You do know that the european standard calls for white legs, and the old US one called for yellow. I really think he's close to the standard and would not just write him off so quickly. If you get some nice hens....But then again- they're awfully hard to come by!
So anyway- my Orloff girl is finally laying. I think she's been teetering on broody for a couple weeks. She doesn't like you trying to take eggs if she's in the box, but she'll stay there 1/2 the day sometimes. I just seperated the Orloff pair, plus a black ameraucana pullet, from the flock yesterday. I'll start hatching in a few weeks and I'll be selling some chicks too. (hopefully!
) I don't want to risk shipping eggs as I only have the one hen- some of them would be on the older side by the time they got to ship, and you know how that goes! Pop!
Yah, after a while of reading and whatnot, I kinda figured he wasn't but did retain some of the qualities. If anything though it made me really get an interest in the breed in itself
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What? Why isn't he full blood? Because of the white-ish legs? You do know that the european standard calls for white legs, and the old US one called for yellow. I really think he's close to the standard and would not just write him off so quickly. If you get some nice hens....But then again- they're awfully hard to come by!
So anyway- my Orloff girl is finally laying. I think she's been teetering on broody for a couple weeks. She doesn't like you trying to take eggs if she's in the box, but she'll stay there 1/2 the day sometimes. I just seperated the Orloff pair, plus a black ameraucana pullet, from the flock yesterday. I'll start hatching in a few weeks and I'll be selling some chicks too. (hopefully!
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