I bet your blue orp is beautiful! I'm wanting blue and lavender hens, and I have a blue splash laced red wyandotte who throws blues with my paint silkie rooster, but....so far they've all been boys from that pairing. I just sold a blue barred polish cockerel who was super handsome.I tried to do the same thing. I have a limited amount of chickens I can keep since I cannot free range and don't have a humongous coop so I got or am getting a lot of different breeds. so far I only have 3 silkie chickens and 4 EEs that are the same breed out of my 14 chickens. I have a blue orpington, a Ameraucana, a black Copper Maran, a silkie Barred Rock Cross, a silkie Ameraucana cross, a Barred Rock, and a black white crested polish. I'm hoping to get a breeding pair of seramas and hopefully a Mille Fleur d'uccle hen
Seramas are one of my favourite breeds. I hatched some last year, but you guessed it, they were all cockerels, and they found a new home. I'm quite enamoured with my OEGBs who are like seramas in character and size, just a different shape.