I haven't tried other varieties yet. I have been eyeballing the chocolate. I would assume they would be more broody and less productive. I did have two blue Orpingtons a few years back but both ended up roosters and I chose to butcher them. At that time I wasn't set up to deal with young roosters like I am now, and I didn't have my techniques of managing them through their adolescence.Thank you for that description. For so long they've had a bad reputation in what I've read for being "big hogs".
I'm really wanting to be done with mean aggressive breeds if I can figure out which ones to get.
Have you ever had any other orp ... Jubilee, Mille Fleur, chocolate, etc.? If so how do they compare?