The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[jeremy]

Hate to change the subject here but I have been trying to get a pic. of this girl for so long & she finely posed for me today !!!!! This is my 100% pure English chocolate bantam pullet at 6 months old, pic. do not give these birds justice at all they so beautiful !!!!! This ones for you Julie.

Roger she is a very pretty girl!

 

[thedragonlady]

I collected the first egg for my Partridge project today.

My big Splash boy Neville is penned with Prudence, a hen that is the result of an English Splash Orpington roo crossed with a Buff Orp hen.




I'm breeding this pair in hopes of coaxing out any hidden genes that might be in my English line, with the intention of replicating the breeding that produced Prudence. She is pretty distinctly marked and I'm crossing my fingers that her offspring have a even clearer marked Partridge pattern to their feathers.

I plan on collecting 4 eggs at a time and then setting them, I'll probably do this until I have at least a dozen eggs incubating.

Here's to wishing for Partridge marked babies in just a few weeks!

X's 2!!!!

 

[aveca]

i cant get over the beautiful head on that hen Jeremy..and color..hope it all goes well, cant wait to see your babies..

 

[jeremy]

i cant get over the beautiful head on that hen Jeremy..and color..hope it all goes well, cant wait to see your babies..

Thank you aveca!

She has her faults, but she does have some great qualities to her as well. She's only 50% English but she has excellent type. I'm just going to have to work on adding the excessive amounts of "fluff" to her offspring to round them out to become that beautiful shape we all love. With each generation I hope to see improvement.

I don't have any updated pictures of her (I've been busy) but here's a shot of her from the first day that I got her, it's kind of blurry but it gives you an idea of her type.

 

[Renie'sPeeps]

Jeremy.. she looks wonderful.. I wish you the best of luck

 

[kidcody]

Thedragon lady, beautiful nothing like a gorgeous buff! Rebel glad to see you on here and with your beautiful Chocolate girl you have!

" Love all the photos!" lets keep them coming I can't get enough of these English beauties!

 

[kidcody]

"Wow" Jeremy your off to a great start! looks stunning!, thanks for sharing! I have a weakness towards this color too!

 

[DaveK]

Dave,

Yes, there are many forms of AI. The testing currently used by the USDA will react to all of them. If one has a positive reactor, then further testing is needed to determine which strain it is. I think the problem with the birds imported that have been destroyed is that the USDA requires that the birds not be vaccinated for AI. A positive reactor would either indicate vaccination or exposure to AI and I believe AI is one of those diseases that the bird remains a carrier for life. Therefore you are risking exposure to the birds in the US by allowing birds in that react positively to the test.

I agree no amount of money could replace birds on various breeders farms. The lines would be lost forever. But the alternative you would face would be to have all your birds destroyed and nothing to show for it at all. That is the way our government works and I am sure if there is an outbreak in the US, "they" (men in white suits and astronaut helmets breathing like Darth Vader) will be going door to door checking for birds within a certain mile radius and everything will be destroyed regardless.

This is also a good reason to have partners to share your flock with if you are an avid breeder. Someone within reasonable distance, yet far enough away to CYA.


FYI,

Note to all out there. The USDA does NOT require pullorum testing or pullorum free status on birds coming into the US....... WTH???????

Jean, some of the inconsistent reports of how vaccinated birds (usually pigeons) were handled didn't involve the US. It seems strange that if there's a vaccine for AI and Fanciers are being encouraged to use it that there would also be regulations in place penalizing that use. I don't pretend to come close to understanding near all of it. Sounds like having you dogs subject to destruction because the titer for certain normal vaccinations. I hear you on the CYA. I'm lucky that way in that there are folks scattered all over with my own main interest and some of us have worked together for 20 years. Not everyone with something worthwhile is in such a position. It galls me though to think that an often misguided government agency could decide what I get to have and keep or not. Suppose the Darth Vader folks did show up. Would I really want to go to friends and see if I could get stock to replace what they'd destroyed and should I want to if their own work might be in danger? I know that I won't send birds off to a situation where some moron may end up killing them. You know yourself that trying to get back something is sometimes pretty iffy anyway. I am just a back yard hobbyist. I take the quality and breeding of stock very seriously because for me that's where the fun is. I have to admit that with everything that needs attention in our country and the things we deal with as a society it just irks the living crap out of me that a hobby interest in poultry could come to grief for very possibly no good reason except the commercial interests (which we have no contact with) and hysterical fear mongering. Ugh. Had rather just look at everyone's nice Orpingtons LOL.

 

[deek]

I collected the first egg for my Partridge project today.

My big Splash boy Neville is penned with Prudence, a hen that is the result of an English Splash Orpington roo crossed with a Buff Orp hen.




I'm breeding this pair in hopes of coaxing out any hidden genes that might be in my English line, with the intention of replicating the breeding that produced Prudence. She is pretty distinctly marked and I'm crossing my fingers that her offspring have a even clearer marked Partridge pattern to their feathers.

I plan on collecting 4 eggs at a time and then setting them, I'll probably do this until I have at least a dozen eggs incubating.

Here's to wishing for Partridge marked babies in just a few weeks!

I hope you continue to have time to photograph the progress. Keeping my fingers crossed for some Partridge babies!

 

[rebel yell]

Anybody having any luck on the LF chocolate project birds ?