Was I lied to?

[TallChickMagnet]

That bird doesn't look like a Buff Orpington at all to me. She's too red, and with the white coloring on her back end.... I think you were lied to.

The white color on that bird looks like glare in the picture to me and the egg picture has too much glare, too, to tell the actual color of the egg.

The bird has red earlobes so it's a brown egg layer. Only a few rare ones have brown lobes and lay white eggs, such as the Holland. A Minorca would have white lobes and that bird looks like a hatchery Buff Orp missing lots of feathers from rooster damage.

Buff Orp color can vary from light yellow to deeper gold, especially in hatchery stock. It's pretty narrow bodied, but, then again, hatchery stock varies. Does not look at all like a Minorca.

Could be a Buff Rock if she had yellow legs early in her laying cycle, but the egg is lighter than most Rocks lay.

Now I'm really confused...

 

[Hezz]

Now I'm really confused...

Does she in fact have white on her hind end, or is that a glare? And the egg, is it pure white, or is it tinted a bit tan or beige? I'm sticking with my original post. To me, she's just too dark of a red color, she doesn't look gold, whether light or dark, she looks red.

 

[TallChickMagnet]

Does she in fact have white on her hind end, or is that a glare? And the egg, is it pure white, or is it tinted a bit tan or beige? I'm sticking with my original post. To me, she's just too dark of a red color, she doesn't look gold, whether light or dark, she looks red.

She is gold, and her eggs are pure white. At least according to my eyes. And she was a rescue from a hatchery...

 

[Chris09]

Are you sure that it her laying the egg and not one of the other two hens in the picture?

Chris

 

[speckledhen]

For a red earlobed chicken to be laying a white egg is way rare and she doesn't appear to be one of the breeds that does it, whatever she is. She does not have the body of a Minorca at all. I'm with Chris-are you 100% positive she is the one laying the "white" egg? And is it truly bright white or off-white/creamy colored? Buff Orps can lay almost white eggs and they can have dark gold plumage as well.

The colors in those pictures are way off, if you notice how much glare and red is in the photos.

She could be a crossbreed, not a pure anything.


This is an egg from one of my hatchery Buff Orpington hens and at times, late in the cycle near her molt, it was lighter:

 

[TallChickMagnet]

Thank you, and sorry for the photo coloring. They were taken with my camara phone. As for the egg color, to my eyes they look white, but as I talk to my wife she says that they are not pure white, but a little off. There has been times when I have gotten three eggs at one time and they all look white to me. Since she is the largest of my birds I assumed that the larger egg was hers. Now 100% I can't be because I didn't see it happen. I don't know much about breeding yet,so I can only go by what I read or am told. I don't have a lot of faith in the words of someone trying to sell me something. My only re-course is to not go back to that person for my other chickens.

 

[Hezz]

The only thing I can tell you is see if you can get some better pics of her, and her egg, without all the glare. That would really help a lot. We'll figure it out.

 

[Habibs Hens]

that looks like a production red crossed with a leghorn male could even be a brown leghorn

 

[aoxa]

Now I'm really confused...

Listen to speckled hen - She knows her stuff No offence to the first person that answered. I don't think she looks like a buff orp either, at least not like what they should look like.. Hatchery stock is really lacking in the BO department. They should have loose feathers, not tight fitting like most hatchery stock.

Here is my girl - not hatchery stock. Does not mean you were lied to. I do think she is just hatchery stock. The egg colour is probably just really light brown.

 

[Habibs Hens]

as said previously a common traight of any Orp is the loose feathering

and they are pretty big [LF Type] and hence dont fly as they cant lift off the ground