The BANTAM ORPINGTON Thread

[jeremy]

Jeremy, been thinking, that could be danger in the making!!! Golden Laced Wyandotte bantams!! What you think?

What do you mean Don? Using Wyandottes instead? Crossing them with the Choc male?

 

[Don Chandler]

What do you mean Don? Using Wyandottes instead? Crossing them with the Choc male?

Yes sir, using the Wyandotte female bantam, for the smaller size and the choc orp bantam male. The comb will get right, and the yellow will lay for awhile, might pop up in several years. I'm thinking about getting smaller faster.

 

[aveca]

cant wait to see what you do with them Don..gonna be nice

 

[BamaChicken]

Solely for the sake of type and I would want to keep them as pure as possible in UK lineage.

A Choc male essentially is the same thing as a Black male. Just with an extra gene. I'd cross him to GL hens and then work on reestablishing the lacing in the birds. I then too would have the option of continuing the Choc gene, creating a Chocolate Laced Gold bird. I don't know if I would though.

Here's a Chocolate Laced Gold LF from the UK.

The Choc color in this situation just looks like a dull black to me, next to the bright buff/gold feathers. So I don't know if I would continue to propagate the gene.

I love the color of that bird

 

[aveca]

WOW ! shes stunning

 

[aveca]

From what I was told, chicks hatched in the fall have their growth stunted by the cold.

they dont thrive..huddled near heat sorce all of the time.i would thing that would affect bone growth ect.....we go for very late jan early feb..by the time march rolls around they are ready to go ouside...seems the older orpingtons thrive in the cold...last year they would go out , fly around in the snow, come in and warm up and back out like kids to play..

 

[OSUman]

Im starting to hatch as soon as I start getting eggs from my new pens.

they dont thrive..huddled near heat sorce all of the time.i would thing that would affect bone growth ect.....we go for very late jan early feb..by the time march rolls around they are ready to go ouside...seems the older orpingtons thrive in the cold...last year they would go out , fly around in the snow, come in and warm up and back out like kids to play..

 

[tkay6205]

I asked this in the LF English Orp thread and didn't get a reply. Does anyone know of any Bantam 100% English Orps besides chocolates in the US? I already have chocolates and would like to find someone with maybe blue, black or splash. Thanks!!

 

[OSUman]

I asked this in the LF English Orp thread and didn't get a reply. Does anyone know of any Bantam 100% English Orps besides chocolates in the US? I already have chocolates and would like to find someone with maybe blue, black or splash. Thanks!!

Jordan Farm is importing some from my understanding.
http://www.jordan-farm.com/

 

[aveca]

Im starting to hatch as soon as I start getting eggs from my new pens.

you lucky you can do this now..wish i could.i get a little jelous of all of my freinds in the south hatching like crazy right now...i have freinds moved up here from alabama, they hatched one year in november, said they would never try that again up here..it was funny, he kept giving me a lecture, lynne you need to get those eggs going..lynne at least get them in jan...lynne your going to be way behind show season...i never said a word to him..just let him coach me....it was funny, i couldnt resist picking on himna bit at the show this year..i said jack you better get those eggs going..he just said aaaarrrrgggh..