The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[annabeejoy]

sry new to this but I got some orps from a lady who showed me the parents big beautiful blue orps so I got 5 chicks just noticed on 2 of them their combs are not pea combs

 

[ChuskaMtns]

sry new to this but I got some orps from a lady who showed me the parents big beautiful blue orps so I got 5 chicks just noticed on 2 of them their combs are not pea combs

Orpingtons should not have pea combs but single combs. Were you looking for Ameraucanas?

 

[HighStreetCoop]

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Perhaps I've misunderstood the genetics (you know waaaay more than I do), but mixing the lav genes in means people are getting black birds when they shouldn't and when they wouldn't predict that they would. There was mass confusion because of this on another thread where someone was getting black chicks from splash and blue parents and couldn't figure out why.

 

[Cearbhael]

Tell me...

Does the Lav gene behave differently when bred with a Blue based bird, as opposed to a Black?

Ok black with the dilute gene is blue.
Black with the lavender gene is lavender.
Lavender does not, I repeat NOT change the colour of blue. Blue can be split to lav however, no one with a lavender or blue program would want it!!! The split blue will only screw their program up.

 

[annabeejoy]

Orpingtons should not have pea combs but single combs. Were you looking for Ameraucanas?

no I wanted blue Orpington

 

[Heron's Nest Farm]

Yay! I'm picking up 3 black, 3 blue and 2 splash!

Hoping this will further my breeding of the mauve. Plus I sorely miss my blue that up and died last year.

I heard that BLUE over chocolate makes mauve, but I read elsewhere that it is splash over Chocolate? And is sex of either important? Who knows? Please chime in.

 

[henless]

Yay! I'm picking up 3 black, 3 blue and 2 splash!

Hoping this will further my breeding of the mauve. Plus I sorely miss my blue that up and died last year.

I heard that BLUE over chocolate makes mauve, but I read elsewhere that it is splash over Chocolate? And is sex of either important? Who knows? Please chime in.

From what I understand, if you put a chocolate roo over a splash hen you will have blue males split to chocolate and mauve females. The chicks will be auto sexing this way? At least it seems that way to me.

 

[Cearbhael]

From what I understand, if you put a chocolate roo over a splash hen you will have blue males split to chocolate and mauve females. The chicks will be auto sexing this way? At least it seems that way to me.

Yeah, I was playing with that genetic calculator and you definitely want to start with a choc Roo over laced hens. You want to end up with choc lacing in a roo. Then you want to take the silver laced hens and cross them with a blue laced Roo. This will get you blue silver laced progeny. Then you cross those blue silver laced hens with a choc laced too. Voila... You will get a percentage of mauve laced hens and roosters (and a % of choc laced and blue laced) will be a very pretty flock

 

[Cearbhael]

Lost my post again... Weirdness. Probably the mobile version is a tad tetchy.
The Mauve silver laced is a lot more complicated than I thought it would be. Far more complicated than my Isabelle/Crele birds. They, for one, will be fairly straight forward. Probably because Blue is actually Black, Blue, &Splash

 

[Cearbhael]

Nooo! Dang tetchy buttons...I didn't hit post, I hit edit! Anyway, yeah Blue is what it is, Choc is sex linked and I am not sure how stable lacing is. (And silver lacing is different than reg lacing?) Anyone care to tell me the difference between silver lacing (Sebright) and Silver Lacing (Black Tail) and which of these are we seeing in Silver/Gold laced Orps?