The IMPORTED ENGLISH Orpington Thread

[rebel yell]

Good talking to you Brooke

 

[Sachasmom]

Anyone have any suggestions on how to get my Chocolate Roo to breed the hens? I bought two Bantam chocolate Roos early this spring, I had zero luck finding any english pullets to buy them, I bought eggs once, the post office Xrayed and killed those, grrrr.

I finally found three decent looking Black American hens locally, the plan being I would put one in with them until I could find some English and the other in with my LF Ameraucanas... Only the Rooster is TERRIFIED of the hens. Like run away, run far far away terrified! He's a BIG bantam, very nearly the same size as the girls are. Do I need to go buy him pullets? I'm highly annoyed at him, I told him I had BIG plans for fall which involved lots of little chocolate chickens, he just clucked at me and walked away. I ended up opening up the coop so he would not kill himself getting away from the hens...

I've never seen him breed any of the smaller chickens he likes to hang around with either.... Are the Roosters just slow to mature? He's about 8 months old... Oh please tell me they have not bred out the ability to actually breed for themselves... <Mutters about expensive show chickens that won't breed>

 

[aveca]

Wow! That cock looks to be 4 or so. He is not as large as Monty, but what a nice bird. He is pure gold to the skin too. Notice that the hens have more pronounced main tail feathers than the English birds, and no sign of shafting, mealiness, or being two toned. They do have a bit of pepper in the tails though, and some of those combs are strange.It's hard to tell if the hens' feathers are as wide as ours, or weather they are worn from being in a breeding pen. Nice group of girls. The whole group fits the English standard more than what is winning now.Anybody out there who can translate this for us? I'd love to see these birds up close. A road trip might be necessary........

I thought you would like the tour....I watch way too much youtube , the hospital I work at has docs from all over the world, we have a russian doc , she was translating it for me, watch some pause it talk about it..she said its thier version of martha stewart...the program was called country living..she interviews the best of livestock owners, gardeners, ect...they imported the birds from england ..pure english orp as that was what there was... after that time , english added more cochin. they did not..they evolved a little differently than ours yet similar..they highly prize the gold to the skin , golden thread sheen not sure why they called it that.she told me they actually have a horse over there, hard to train horse..its called al teke or something like that..it shines like a gold coin..but they bred it for color not brains..very skittish..but is very metalic gold...it was just interesting to see birds in other countrys and how they bred for certian traits..i learned a little about how they bred similar yet slightly different ideas, the doc was smiling ear to ear watching it, but got paged out..I had hour lunch that day..when she and I have some time, shes going to translate whole thing. interesting bits about the breeding thoughts on color , hens ect..

 

[ChristineR]

I thought you would like the tour....I watch way too much youtube , the hospital I work at has docs from all over the world, we have a russian doc , she was translating it for me, watch some pause it talk about it..she said its thier version of martha stewart...the program was called country living..she interviews the best of livestock owners, gardeners, ect...they imported the birds from england ..pure english orp as that was what there was... after that time , english added more cochin. they did not..they evolved a little differently than ours yet similar..they highly prize the gold to the skin , golden thread sheen not sure why they called it that.she told me they actually have a horse over there, hard to train horse..its called al teke or something like that..it shines like a gold coin..but they bred it for color not brains..very skittish..but is very metalic gold...it was just interesting to see birds in other countrys and how they bred for certian traits..i learned a little about how they bred similar yet slightly different ideas, the doc was smiling ear to ear watching it, but got paged out..I had hour lunch that day..when she and I have some time, shes going to translate whole thing. interesting bits about the breeding thoughts on color , hens ect..

I think you're referring to the Akhal-Teke. We have them here, too. Certain colors do have an almost metalic sheen to their coat.

 

[aveca]

thanks christine. i tried to spell like she said..i bet there is quite a story behind those.

 

[thedragonlady]

I thought you would like the tour....I watch way too much youtube , the hospital I work at has docs from all over the world, we have a russian doc , she was translating it for me, watch some pause it talk about it..she said its thier version of martha stewart...the program was called country living..she interviews the best of livestock owners, gardeners, ect...they imported the birds from england ..pure english orp as that was what there was... after that time , english added more cochin. they did not..they evolved a little differently than ours yet similar..they highly prize the gold to the skin , golden thread sheen not sure why they called it that.she told me they actually have a horse over there, hard to train horse..its called al teke or something like that..it shines like a gold coin..but they bred it for color not brains..very skittish..but is very metalic gold...it was just interesting to see birds in other countrys and how they bred for certian traits..i learned a little about how they bred similar yet slightly different ideas, the doc was smiling ear to ear watching it, but got paged out..I had hour lunch that day..when she and I have some time, shes going to translate whole thing. interesting bits about the breeding thoughts on color , hens ect..

Can't wait for the translation. Please find out where this breeder is, and his name!

 

[aveca]

I looked at so many, blues in england, germany ecy...this one is in one of the former soviet countrys, he was explaining things like in thier standard they like good spacing in serations of comb, not crowded, shape , ect... the wattles length should be very close to the height of the comb..importance of the color through, working on the feet, special care for russian winters..she said quite a bit of humor in it..I will ask her the name and location

 

[BamaChicken]

Here are the babies a week old yesterday and so I took their pics again yesterday so I keep up with their increase. They are heavy.

I hope they have good lacing. This was a trial breeding to see . Black male over splash that carries good lacing gene. The basket they are in is 5 inches tall and they are not standing up all the way

 

[thedragonlady]

Here are the babies a week old yesterday and so I took their pics again yesterday so I keep up with their increase. They are heavy.

I hope they have good lacing. This was a trial breeding to see . Black male over splash that carries good lacing gene


Boy, are they growing! They are going to be huge! What is the plant behind them? Those look like sweet gum burrs. It's rare for me to not be able to indentify a plant, but yours has me stumped.

 

[galanie]

Don't tell me you're a horticulturist too?

hehe.