The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[Margitas]

I hope so to this is the hen that he will be breed to:

Nice english hen

 

[rockinpaints]

Split black-chocolate rooster x pure chocolate hen :

50% pure chocolate roosters and hens
25% split roosters
25% pure black hens


Marc

So you shouldn't get any black roos only splits and chocolate roos?
Thank you for the information

Nellie

 

[rockinpaints]

Legbar is Crele (Barred gene with BBR, or Partridge coloring) in the US

by: rockinpaints

Yes, Knew what a 'legbar' was just not 'legbarn' Thanks though!

 

[radirevo]

Yes indeed.

Marc

 

[OSUman]

Sorry, didnt see the "n"

 

[kidcody]

Jubilee Chick
This show the changes that happen so fast in the Jubilees, wings feathers coming in fast!

 

[OkChickens]

Jubilee Chick
This show the changes that happen so fast in the Jubilees, wings feathers coming in fast!

Feel free to ship a few over my way! I cant wait for my chicks to get here!

Nate

 

[jeremy]

Hi Jeremy,
Thanks for the Tolbunt Orpingtons breeding programe. I have bantam orpingtons and can get two generations out in a year, so I can make this colour in bantams in a year. I have bantam gold lace and bantam jubilees and of course the most other important one is bantam spangled. Way to go, Goldlace cock over possible both colours would even help too I presume? Then I have immediate outcrosses if I pick the chicks well and put into two pens, I could have two strains - ha ha Sandy

Jeremy, What would happen if I put a spangled cock into the pen of Goldlace, or Jubilees,? I know the main colour is determined by the cock, how strong would that be, possible too strong? Sandy

Sandy, if I were taking on this project I would use a Gold Laced male over Mottled females. Tolbunt is gold lacing with mottling, some say the base color needs to be a deeper "mahogany" gold color but I haven't seen many (any) examples of that. I personally would not use Jubilees in this project, I'm assuming that folks are using Jubilees for a few different reasons. Either 1, they don't have access to Mottled Orps so they are using the Jubilees in place of them or they are using the Jubilees to deepen the ground color of the bird.

Anyways, Gold Laced male X Mottled female will give you incomplete Gold Laced birds carrying/split to the mottling gene. I'd then cross those offspring birds together to get some birds that are pure for the mottled gene a.k.a "showing their spots". You would also want to select for clearer, more distinct gold lacing in this generation.

When you have a bird that was pure for mottling I'd then outcross to a pure Gold Laced bird, preferably of a different bloodline, to further strengthen the definition of lacing in the birds. Then again you would be dealing with recessive mottling.

It would be a long process but the end result would be beautiful.

 

[jeremy]

Beautiful day here in the Pacific Northwest. Sunny and cool, with a little bit of wind. First day out free ranging for the Orps in awhile. They were loving it. Going to send pics of some of them. These birds came from Bamachicken last April, so about 10 months old. The black Roo came from Red Reiner....he is a Hoss son Julie... He is only 7 months so still has a lot of growing and filling out to do. The boys were in a Show off mode, but the girls were too focused on eating those greens. Enjoy the pics


Can you say a little windy???



Bratty girls...but you get the idea

Beautiful birds Rising Star, I especially like this guy.

 

[jeremy]

Got a decent shot of my brood rooster today:

Looking good Roger.