The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[RedReiner]

Looks Splash to me.

Oh, I have no doubt it's splash. The only other genetic option is blue, which is unlikely, it's just I've never seen striping like this.  Just wondering if anyone has ever seen this before.  Most of my splashes are very white with literal "splashes" of blue feathers. I've hatched out two chicks that are light bluish with laced splashing and now this.  Haven't hatched a ton of chicks over the years, so just bouncing the pic around out of curiosity.  Their seems to be some patterning to the coloration...

I checked my pics of my laced and blue splash, wings did not have the barring like that but did have the lacing. bet its pretty when it grows up!

 

[piglett]

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maybe it's a cockerel if so might be able to get some good looking babies out of him

 

[chickydee64]

thought I took about 15 pic;s...this is the only one that loaded.....not great but

...I'm not great at it.............Piglett , this one of yours
she had just finished her dust bath so pardon her ruffled front. She is 21 weeks

 

[aveca]

No idea here- but updates would be cool. It is a neet looking chick!

It will be interesting to see the next set of feathers and on to adult feathers look like..something can hide in the genes and get kicked up front..I think its all fun and interesting..the baby sure doesn't look like it would be any kind of stress barring. ..Yaya. Hope you update everyone on how it develops...I would keep it too... .

 

[piglett]

wow she turned out to be a great looking girl
are they laying for you yet?

thought I took about 15 pic;s...this is the only one that loaded.....not great but

...I'm not great at it.............Piglett , this one of yours
she had just finished her dust bath so pardon her ruffled front. She is 21 weeks

 

[BamaChicken]

I've been watching this pullet since the wing feathers started coming in. Thought it was one of those new fangled "blue" splash chicks everyone was talking about a couple of weeks ago. Just not sure, but what I am sure of is that I have no cuckoo or anything even remotely resembling cuckoo that would have produced this (I know exactly who this chick was hatched from and it's a first time trial/fertility test for the blue roo and a youngish splash hen)




Ideas anyone? Definitely going to let her hang around to see what happens...

I think it will be a blue splash when feathered in. It does look like a bit of barring on the inside there though. Look forward to seeing the pics

 

[Irishhenman]

I am going to import a couple of buff Orpington hens in a few weeks from England and I am hoping some of you original importers could tell me who you got your birds from and possibly an email address or website please

 

[Orps]

We have two dogs one yorkie and a border collie. The yorkie couldn't do anything if he wanted to. So far the border collie keeps everything ran off (knock on wood) except once when it was raining so hard I decided to put him in the garage. That night the fence blew down and something killed some chickens. The dogs don't even acknowledge that the chickens are around unless the chickens are trying to eat their food and they snaps at them. Pretty lucky. It was funny one cold day I was outside working and the big dog came out of the dog house, then the little, and a chicken came out last. They were all in there huddled up.

I have yorkies and border collies too. They got along with my chickens too. But then something got into my backyard(maybe raccoon or a fox) and killed all my chickens. If my dogs were outdoor dogs, I don't think the chickens would be dead now.

 

[PugBug]

I have 7 dogs who all get along with not just the chickens but all the other livestock & poultry I have. 1 lab/dane mix, an Aussie, pug & 4 Chihuahuas. I'm outside most of the day & evening so the dogs are out with me, but at night when we are all inside if the dogs sense something I let them out. Thankfully I've not had a predator problem yet. I think alot of that is because of the smell of the dogs on my property.

 

[PugBug]

thought I took about 15 pic;s...this is the only one that loaded.....not great but

...I'm not great at it.............Piglett , this one of yours
she had just finished her dust bath so pardon her ruffled front. She is 21 weeks

pretty girl, love how wide she is