The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[BamaChicken]

Beth your chicks are really pretty and healthy looking.

Germaine i look forward to seeing them. I havent' forgot about the eggs. Just waiting till I get my breeding pens together. Charlie is in a molt at the moment.

I thought I would post a picture of one of the two black cockerels I kept out of Tubby's breeding , This was a black pen and my favorite group of blacks. This boy will be 7 months in a few days. I love everything about him but his comb.

Another view and please don't look at the moulting blues that wouldn't get out of the way. Those girls look like 2 dollar chickens right now.

If I could change combs with him and his brother I would. I like the other one who is taller, not as wide but great tail and comb. I may show him in Jan., the brother that is. I will use this boy as a breeder on some girls with good combs and see if we can pass along all the good traits and fix the comb.
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[jeremy]

Beth, aren't the babies great?
They look just like mine- little chubbers that are so, so sweet.

Bama, that boy looks BIG! What exactly is wrong with his comb though?

 

[joletabey]

Julie, thank you - I think I got some real sweeties in there. Your boy is incredibly handsome, even with the comb- the camera really caught the sheen on his feathers.

 

[kathyinmo]

Beth, Your babies are just little sweeties! You watch the little one go .... he will catch up quickly I bet.

Julie, Do you have progression pictures of this boy (Tubby, Jr), or of him a couple months ago? I have these 5 blacks, and I am wondering if they look anything he did a couple months ago. I tell ya, these guys are just huge!

 

[joletabey]

Jeremy- sorry, we must have posted at the same time- yes, they are chubbers. I just LOVE chicks!

Kathy, I really hope Skoche catches up- such a valient little soul - he tries so hard to get in there with the big kids.

Julie, is there something besides the number of points on the comb you don't like? This is still a learning process for me, so I would love your critique of it.

Joy, where are you? Get on here and look at your grands!!!

 

[BamaChicken]

Yes comb is to large. I will post you a pic of a just about perfect comb on a boy a had a few years back

Kathy I will have to look and see if i have any from a month or so ago. Ihope yours turn out really good too.

Beth I will also try and tack some pics of his brother you has a good comb.

I think I will call him TJ/Tubby Jr.

Here is a pic of a Mottled project I was working on for a few years. This boy has a near perfect comb

 

[kathyinmo]

Not a great picture, but this is one of my favorite black girls. She is very timid and stand-offish.

Here are a few of the girls ......

never mind .... I tried to upload 6 times and can not get it. Will try later....

 

[joletabey]

Julie, thank you, I can see the difference. Did you keep up with the mottled project? That is a beautiful bird, and I love the coloring.

Kathy, she is lovely, I hope you can get some more pictures up- how old is she there?

 

[kathyinmo]

Beth, She is 5 months old now. That was today (before the torrential rains started). I have 3 black girls that look lovely, as well as 2 blue girls.

I don't know if it is my computer, the BYC site, or my server, but I am having a heck of a time trying to upload pictures. I will keep trying.

 

[BamaChicken]

Kathy this was TJ about 5 weeks ago

Here are a few from the same hatch and on might be him 4 weeks before the last one i showed.

This is a 3 month pic

Don't know if this helped but maybe it did