The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[HighStreetCoop]

Thanks so much for all the replies. My other opton would be to buy a black rooster???

That would be MUCH simpler. If you cross a black rooster with a chocolate hen, ALL the boys will be black split for chocolate. Cross any of them back to the chocolate hen and you should get chocolate offspring of both sex:

25% black pullets
25% chocolate pullets
25% chocolate cockerels
25% black split to chocolate cockerels

 

[robgray]

Hello peeps,
Remember my blue "lady" that everyone assured me was a girl... Well she was making like honking noises?
Here is a more recent pic.... What do you think?

 

[rockinpaints]

Hello peeps,
Remember my blue "lady" that everyone assured me was a girl... Well she was making like honking noises?
Here is a more recent pic.... What do you think?

Oh boy, definitely a boy

 

[McCoyPoultry]

Well I just candled my eggs!
3 blues: all fertile
6 buff/red: all fertile
6 barred rock/ black: all fertile
I will be selling chicks here soon!!!!!!
I can't believe it! I will post pics soon!!!!

 

[robgray]

Oh boy, definitely a boy

To make it even more difficult this lovely english "boy" is so timid... He has never even tried to peck me.
I will say the english orps are very different in my opinion from american orps or other chickens... Very timid and not the smartest. I hope im not insulting anyone! I love them but cant see them mixing with my flock...these orps would be mortified!

 

[BrahmaCrazy]

Thank you for all the help! Im going to buy a black orpington rooster! One last question - the people at the poultry shows are saying that the chocolate orpington large fowl is still not big enough in south africa according to the standards of orpingtons. So should I just buy the biggest black rooster I can get? And then pick the largest choc split rooster from the offspring and breed it back to the chocolate hen? Hoping then to get bigger chocolate offsprings? Or should I be doing this some other way? According to them they dont know anyone in south africa that has big enough chocolate orpingtons to be able to show them?

 

[HighStreetCoop]

Thank you for all the help! Im going to buy a black orpington rooster! One last question - the people at the poultry shows are saying that the chocolate orpington large fowl is still not big enough in south africa according to the standards of orpingtons. So should I just buy the biggest black rooster I can get? And then pick the largest choc split rooster from the offspring and breed it back to the chocolate hen? Hoping then to get bigger chocolate offsprings? Or should I be doing this some other way? According to them they dont know anyone in south africa that has big enough chocolate orpingtons to be able to show them?

Yep. You just keep breeding for size (without abandoning form, of course).

 

[HighStreetCoop]

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Mine aren't timid at all (ok, one of the girls is, but just the one). My most outgoing one actively stalks my Mastiff, then gets offended when he sniffs her and pecks him, LOL! That's her giving him the hairy eyeball the first day they went out into the coop/run.

 

[Cearbhael]

To make it even more difficult this lovely english "boy" is so timid... He has never even tried to peck me.
I will say the english orps are very different in my opinion from american orps or other chickens... Very timid and not the smartest. I hope im not insulting anyone! I love them but cant see them mixing with my flock...these orps would be mortified!

I prefer the English. Not timid so much as very docile? They end up on the bottom of the pecking order in mixed flocks. The are very easy to tame and love people. They are big birds, not necessarily bigger than APA Orps, but not as rangy or upright. They do best in all English flocks. I like that they are higher quality in the rare colours since the English are way ahead of us in Orp color genetics. In fact I have seen some colours that have not been tried here yet. At least, they have not reached the point where they would be offered for sale.

 

[Richmercury]

Hi there.. What kind of batam chick makes chocolate egg's?
Got to have um. Neat dark color.
Awesome. Please let me know. Thanks..