The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[cfc]

Daytonfarm, the ground colour should ideally be completely even through-out. In my opinion, the bird on the left appears to have slightly better lacing as it is a bit more prominent. I would prefer them a bit lighter for showing over here, but both are laced though. Promising youngsters.

Matt

 

[buffbeauty]

Well I went back and looked at the lacing, this time on acomputer (first time on my phone) and isnt it weird how the darker lacing on the girl on the LEFT make her feathers look pointed and the RIGHT looks more rounded. Seems like I've noticed this before....... Not that it matters just a neat trick on the eye

 

[daytonfarm]

"Daytonfarm, the ground colour should ideally be completely even through-out. In my opinion, the bird on the left appears to have slightly better lacing as it is a bit more prominent. I would prefer them a bit lighter for showing over here, but both are laced though. Promising youngsters."

Matt


Thanks for your opinion, so what is the best way to improve color and lacing, breed back to black, blue or splash?

Carolyn

 

[jimmythechicken]

cant wait we are buying a dozen hatching eggs from renie's peeps on here.we just loved her 3/4 english birds.next year we will have 3 breeding pens 1 blue black pen ,one black roo lav hen pen, an one lav roo an black hens.we will post picswhen our fuzzy butts hatch we love the big english orps right now we have orps but no english her are a few pic of our birds now.

 

[Mrs. Fluffy Puffy]

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[cfc]

I would personally recommend breeding blue to blue as then you can see the qualities of both colours going into the chicks. The next step is to breed a lot and select hard, once you have a pretty tight line you will not need to breed so many as the offspring will become more uniform as the generations go on. You will learn things about your line as you breed more and more. I now know that certain splash males in my lines will throw a much higher percentage of lighter blues when bred to blue. Once the lacing is locked in, it's pretty easy to keep. I have only bred one completely unlaced pullet out of about 150 in the last 4 years.

Breeding large numbers and careful selection is the main key to breeding in and keeping these desired traits though.

Matt

 

[BamaChicken]

Great info Matt.

 

[jimmythechicken]

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that is good to know the blues we have right now are to light but our next group will be alot better birds getting them from 2 dif breeders so i will breed to blue an see how they come out

 

[daytonfarm]

Thanks Matt, I am hatching as many blues as possible right now so I can be more particular about what I keep.

Carolyn

 

[jeremy]

Joy, how are your GL babies doing? Are they starting to feather in?