The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[nicalandia]

You should get black boys and chocolate girls from that cross.

Only 50% of the girls will come out chocolate...(of 10 hens only 5)

 

[nicalandia]

By beige do you mean Dun, or Khaki?

no.. I mean a Dun Base Chocolate(heterozygous Dun) and recessive sex link choc on the same bird... that will give you a Beige colored Orp...

 

[radirevo]

Split black-chocolate rooster x pure chocolate hen :

50% pure chocolate roosters and hens
25% split roosters
25% pure black hens


Marc

 

[kidcody]

So do we have true Lav Orps in the US?

 

[Margitas]

Got a question, If black roo. that is carrying the chocolate gene is breed to a black hen that is not carrying the gene, can they produce chocolate chicks or just black chicks ? Anybody know about this ?

That how i start my chocolates hope u have some big roo, my chocolate roo is 17.4 pound and keep working on them.

 

[nicalandia]

this is what Beige looks like....

its dun based chocolate and recessive sex link chocolate(homozygous form) on the same bird..

they are a color project at this stage(with silkies) but could be also worked on Orps..

 

[rebel yell]

Split male X Black female =
25% Split Black males
25% Black males
25% Black females
25% Chocolate females
Sorry that I didn't get this info to you sooner Roger, I haven't been online much.

That's OK Jeremy, I have been laid up in this house to long with this bad knee its about to drive me crazy not being able to do what I normally do out side with my birds, so maybe I do stand a chance if one of my chicks turn out to be a roo. Which I hardly ever wish that, so they will probely all turn out to be pullets with the way my luck goes.

 

[OSUman]

What is a "legbarn" ?

Legbar is Crele (Barred gene with BBR, or Partridge coloring) in the US

So do we have true Lav Orps in the US?

There are both UK imported Lav Orps and APA bred Lav Orps (APA is harder to find dedicated breeders)

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I want to try that, but need more space. I am working on Mauve bantams

 

[rebel yell]

That how i start my chocolates hope u have some big roo, my chocolate roo is 17.4 pound and keep working on them.

I hope so to this is the hen that he will be breed to:

 

[OSUman]

That's OK Jeremy, I have been laid up in this house to long with this bad knee its about to drive me crazy not being able to do what I normally do out side with my birds, so maybe I do stand a chance if one of my chicks turn out to be a roo. Which I hardly ever wish that, so they will probely all turn out to be pullets with the way my luck goes.

You can cross a chocolate pullet back to her father to get chocolate males.