The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[DeannaA]

On the combs? How would it be dangerous?

Side sprigs are extra points on the side of a comb. Not dangerous, but a DQ at shows.

Sprig and spur was used. I was wondering how a comb had anything to do with spurs. I thought you were talking about spurs on the feet. All very confusing. My friend has a rooster with huge spurs on his feet that point toward the center instead of back. So I was thinking that was what you were talking about. Also when I googled side spur, that is what shwed up.

 

[laseterlass]

Sorry. My fault

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

We have 3 Chocolate roosters and 3 hens with no side sprigs but we have had some chicks with them. So now to seperate and figure who is guilty.

 

[jeremy]

We have 3 Chocolate roosters and 3 hens with no side sprigs but we have had some chicks with them. So now to seperate and figure who is guilty.

Well one of your roosters is partially, it takes a copy of the gene from each parent bird to produce offspring with springs.

 

[jeremy]

Orps with sprigs should make soup, not babies.

X2.

 

[thedragonlady]

Well one of your roosters is partially, it takes a copy of the gene from each parent bird to produce offspring with springs.

The inheritance of sprigs confounds me. Some lines have it in both sexes, while in some it is only in the males. Have you got an explanation for that Jeremy ?

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

Well one of your roosters is partially, it takes a copy of the gene from each parent bird to produce offspring with springs.

But I have to figure out which Rooster, we have 2 in there at the moment, we had three.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

would love some uk opinions on these birds- I picked up some crele orps that a friend was selling - purchased from GFF, and several other sources. As far as the crele go I have looked at keiths orps, orpingtons galore, essex orps and they all seem different- my roo is very close to a few of the ones from UK but, would like to know how they stand and what can be done to improve the color on them.

juvenile about 3 months old.

crele hen



crele roo



crele juvie



crele juvie



crele hen and roo

 

[boykin2010]

To my knowledge, GFF has not sold any Crele from their parent flock. They sold their original import pair, and that has been it.

 

[TNBEARCHICK]

they were in rare orp specials and Jenny sent them in some assortments to the best customers.