The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[thedragonlady]

Wow deek!!!!

Wouldn't that be great? Of course both sides would have to give a little. Not sure what APA would do about this, but Orps ARE an English breed.

OK Walt, time for you to weigh in now...........

 

[Margitas]

The best laceing for blue you can get from blacks with the blue gene of both side.

 

[aveca]

thanks Larry.

 

[naturespace]

20 weeks old pullets. I have a splash and blue that I think are nice, but not sure. Please let me know what you think. I'm not a breeder just an admirer and would like to know what I have. How is the lacing on the blue pullet? I have thick skin so tell me what you think.

Thanks aveca and deek. They are fluffy.
Anyone else have any comments on these girls. If they aren't "English" enough, let me know that at least. I just want to know more about my girls so I know how to proceed. I'm thick skinned so don't worry about that. I just want to know if they are worth breeding. If so, I need to find a nice boy for them. If not, it will be good to know now. I'll use them just as broodies and egg layers.
Thanks

 

[aveca]

Wouldn't that be great? Of course both sides would have to give a little. Not sure what APA would do about this, but Orps ARE an English breed.

OK Walt, time for you to weigh in now...........

a dream come true if we could bring it together..I think there would be opinions about asthetics and that would have to be worked out, they did it with aussies..queensland held out thier vote on inducting them into thier sop until they got a now reqired tighter feather..but what a great way to communicate ideas .I think a lot of brits are not liking the trend toward too much cohin look..the birds here are to my eye more classic thou they are import..

The fantastic birds that rockin paints just hatched, the lady who sent those imports said something interesting..she called it moon gazing, im not sure what she meant by that term..does she mean the severe ewe neck that we sometimes see..the moon gazing she said is caused by a vitamin deficiency ..but I need somone to explain moon gazing to me..I see some birds that neck configuration looks wrong, too low when I look at those old books I see a better balanced neck.it does not look like somone karate chopped the bird behind the neck, that never looked quite right to me...but that would be conformation not moon gazing right?

Walt would be qualified to pick. I know he has some nice birds well presented.

 

[Margitas]

Thanks aveca and deek. They are fluffy.
Anyone else have any comments on these girls. If they aren't "English" enough, let me know that at least. I just want to know more about my girls so I know how to proceed. I'm thick skinned so don't worry about that. I just want to know if they are worth breeding. If so, I need to find a nice boy for them. If not, it will be good to know now. I'll use them just as broodies and egg layers.
Thanks

Splash looks english and american cross but both origin from english the english have lower nice shirt , nice english orp you able to see only 3 inch from her leg.
Blue looks more english just small to me have nice fluffy but, how old she?

 

[Margitas]

My big boy 17.6 pound he from ramley and also he have the choc gene.

 

[Orps]

Thanks aveca and deek. They are fluffy.
Anyone else have any comments on these girls. If they aren't "English" enough, let me know that at least. I just want to know more about my girls so I know how to proceed. I'm thick skinned so don't worry about that. I just want to know if they are worth breeding. If so, I need to find a nice boy for them. If not, it will be good to know now. I'll use them just as broodies and egg layers.
Thanks

My orps looks just like yours. They are part English

 

[aveca]

well at this point not much to see here and this pic is a couple of weeks old.these were a very late hatch...still in the scraggly age ..this is the same chick I showed earlier that had been severe wounds from racoon attack, finnally recovered and out running around.lots of doctoring..but sure worth it..comes naturally when you work at hospital ER




Another blk and blue, im pretty sure this one is male by the bare butt..






blk orp cockeral i might have posted these earlier if so forgive..old ladies cant remember what they did 5 mins ago.




blk pullet and different cockeral. sorry about my poor photography took these in a hurry on way to work one day.




they were hatched march 23 took photos july 10th you can see he is looking into the bucket..they are big birdies..

 

[naturespace]

Splash looks english and american cross but both origin from english the english have lower nice shirt , nice english orp you able to see only 3 inch from her leg.
Blue looks more english just small to me have nice fluffy but, how old she?

Thanks. They are only 5 months old (20 weeks) maybe I need to wait while to see how they grow.