The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[pickledchicken]

Quote: Nellie I too wondered about the calculator it looks like you would have to carry it another generation to get the DF barring in the male

 

[Don Chandler]

Hi there! Your avatar threw me, how cute!

My thoughts with the Partridge roo over the Cuckoo hen is that the hen can only possess one barring gene so you would yield few bared chicks, if any. I believe you would need to breed to a double barred roo but I will ask my friend who has done it. Any thoughts from anyone else? I have tried to use the chicken calculator in the past but it hasn't been real reliable (I think it is just for fun

). I'll do some research and post more later.

In my bantams this year I'm breeding a cuckoo male orp over a Partridge Wyandotte female. I made Crele Rosecombs years ago by using a Cuckoo male over Bbred females. I takes time to get the males right, females come pretty fast.

 

[pickledchicken]

Thank you Don I am just trying to figure some things out. I had visited Orpingtons Galore and took a look at the gallery. I found a buff over cuckoo described as Crele wouldn't this just be buff cuckoo? Next to that is the Legbar that displays the Duckwing coloration e+ that is what I picture in my mind as a true crele coloration like the OEG

 

[Renie'sPeeps]

I lost one of old blue roos I got from Bama today Found him on the bottom of the pile.... It is just soo freaking cold here right now.

 

[pickledchicken]

I lost one of old blue roos I got from Bama today Found him on the bottom of the pile.... It is just soo freaking cold here right now.

So sorry to hear that. It's freezing here in Tn I can only imagine it's much colder there

 

[deek]

I lost one of old blue roos I got from Bama today Found him on the bottom of the pile.... It is just soo freaking cold here right now.

I am sorry.

 

[aveca]

So Sorry about the blue renie..this is really hard on poultry....we have had minus 20 wind chills....minus 5 without the wind..

I have everybody in heated huts Right now..good news is, it's going to be in the high 40s next week Moving your way..the birds know they are just biding their time..:/

 

[Blarneyeggs]

I lost one of old blue roos I got from Bama today Found him on the bottom of the pile.... It is just soo freaking cold here right now.

Oh NO Renie. So sorry, I sure hope this weather breaks soon.

 

[cbnovick]

Soooooooo sorry Renie...tough to lose any bird to just plain old mother nature's weather...here in AZ it's the heat that can kill.

 

[rockinpaints]

I lost one of old blue roos I got from Bama today Found him on the bottom of the pile.... It is just soo freaking cold here right now.

Oh Renie, I am so sorry! It is horrible trying to keep these guys warm. I am just coming in from outside and my cheeks are frozen! Poor things were too hot this past summer and our weather in Ohio is much like yours right now,

. I can't wait till spring, just hope we don't have a reply of last summer

Again I am really sorry, I know they mean a lot to you

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