The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[aveca]

So Sorry Lots of Cluckin, I hope you catch the predator!

X2!!! SO sorry for your loss.

 

[aveca]

This is the picture that won me over. This is NOT my bird, nor my Pic

. It was posted at the beginning of this thread by Bama and is what lead my to pursue English birds. In my opinion, THIS is what is so good about English Orps. Now if I could ever be so lucky to get one of my blues this round...I would be one happy lady..

dont you want to reach right in there and pick him up? lord hes cute.

 

[laseterlass]

Hey guys. Its been very busy and so hot here. I wanted to add a few pics and see what u guys think. Here is an update on my LF chocolate project. This guys father was a black split roo who was an 8th bantam and mother was a quarter bantam chocolate. Everyone meet the Count. To make it easy lets just say he is a lil more then 75% LF but 100% English blood. He is 8 months old now and just becoming sexually mature. He will b bred over pure english black LF hens for the next generation. At least this one will be sex linked LOL. I have worked very long and hard at breeding these up to LF and plan to stick with my project adding in new blood as I go rather then buy LF chocolates. I like knowing the background. This year the hens I am using r no relation to this roo. This is one of many projects I am doing with the imported orps and will update info on others as I have time. Everyone please meet The Count. He was the only one to make the cull.

I love the chocolates I have Marc Sacre choc bantam and have a ? My young roo about 3 months old has an odd comb I will load a photo of it

 

[aveca]

This is the picture that won me over. This is NOT my bird, nor my Pic

. It was posted at the beginning of this thread by Bama and is what lead my to pursue English birds. In my opinion, THIS is what is so good about English Orps. Now if I could ever be so lucky to get one of my blues this round...I would be one happy lady..

dont you want to reach right in there and pick him up? lord hes cute.

 

[TheNuttyChick]

 

[laseterlass]

Pink the 3 month old Chocolate Chip

His comb is interesting

Is it a terrible fault

 

[thedragonlady]

Pink the 3 month old Chocolate Chip


His comb is interesting


Is it a terrible fault

It is a side sprig, which is a disqualification.What a shame.

 

[piglett]

yeah I will be doing that next year ...since this is my first year raising Orps I only had 2 hens and a rooster to hatch out of so I had to buy chicks...but next year if every thing goes as planned I will have so many chicks I wont know what to do with them all

i had the same type of thing going on last year
i bought 7 chicks from Renie
i got them in May if i remember rite
so they couldn't even start laying till fall
once this spring arrived i got my 1st bator & started in
now i have a second & a picture window hatcher
i kept 4 blue pullets & 1 black from what i hatched out
next year i plan on setting lots of eggs

 

[laseterlass]

Darn it Well in our area of AK there are no shows and none of the 5 girls have it so I will just see how his chicks look They are Marc Sacre so hopefully his goodstuff will ourshine his devil horns

 

[Lots A Cluckin]

Quote: yeah I got a Hova Bator last year and it works like a charm it holds 41 eggs and early next spring I plan to start filling it up I am going to hatch nearly every egg I get until late April then I will start selling hatching eggs.