White Orpingtons

[Fran James]

APA SOP White Orps!

 

[SandyRiverChick]

Thanks for posting pics! I've been surfing to add variety to my flock and I've been curious. Those are some stocky ladies with canckles! Very pretty.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Very handsome birds. I'd look at their feet and legs. Looks like scaly leg mites. I raise White English Orpingtons and love them. One of my favorite varieties.

They were about 9 months old in those photos.

 

[Fran James]

Thanks for posting pics! I've been surfing to add variety to my flock and I've been curious. Those are some stocky ladies with canckles! Very pretty.

Thanks! They have Doug's Granny in them!

 

[Fran James]

Very handsome birds. I'd look at their feet and legs. Looks like scaly leg mites. I raise White English Orpingtons and love them. One of my favorite varieties.
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They were about 9 months old in those photos.

They also have Alan's Buff hen who was recessive White. I use my Buffs for new blood and visa versa.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Thanks! They have Doug's Granny in them!View attachment 3378015

I recently got some Buffs as well. I think I have a few chicks growing out.

 

[Fran James]

I recently got some Buffs as well. I think I have a few chicks growing out.

My Buffs are a rebuild project still in process. I hope to have them back and looking decent in 2 or 3 years. Another odd variety that I only have is DUN Platinum. That too is embedded in my Whites. DUN Platinum is totally different gene than Lavender. It is a Gun Metal Gray.

 

[ColtHandorf]

So your Buffs carry Recessive White? I got mine out of my Silver-laced birds. I do have a male now that is out of Black and Lavender Mottled stock, though. The dun birds are coming out of your Whites or Buffs? Is there an explanation for the white feathers in the Buff cock bird closest to the camera in the first photo? Almost looks like the Buff hen in the second photo, closest to the white bird, has some white or lavender in her tail too.

 

[Fran James]

My original Buffs were 7 Buff hens that a good friend Larry Lee gave me that were Doug's Granny's daughters. They were nothing short of spectacular. Doug has a friend in Minnesota who raised Buffs that was the only guy Doug would trade with for new blood. That guy went to the big show up in the Northeast about 20 yrs ago and bought a Buff cockerel from a Canadian who as rumored had got some from one of the UK Buff orp legends, and that cockerel was close to 15 lbs. Alan's Buff girl, who I called marge was 7/8's Alan's APA line and 1/8 Belgium Buff. Alan was 2nd to buy these Belgium Buffs Euro type for his new blood. His buddy Bill in Mass had Alan caretake his Buffs during a nasty divorce and also had some Belgium. But, his was more to 50/50 APA to Euro. One of those Belgium Buffs I suspect carried the gene. These were some of my 1st Generation Buffs fromm Doug's Granny. The first one is my Marge, pure APA who also happens to have the recdessive White gene. Then the pair are Grand kids to Doug's Granny, the best Buff orp in the past 50 years here in the States with plenty of Grand Champ ribbons to prove it.

 

[Fran James]

So your Buffs carry Recessive White? I got mine out of my Silver-laced birds. I do have a male now that is out of Black and Lavender Mottled stock, though. The dun birds are coming out of your Whites or Buffs? Is there an explanation for the white feathers in the Buff cock bird closest to the camera in the first photo? Almost looks like the Buff hen in the second photo, closest to the white bird, has some white or lavender in her tail too.

This one here is a homemade in Indiana Delaware Orpington. That gene is also in my birds. White covers everything and every now and then the true genetics rises to makes stuff like this Delaware which I have two. Who I can take to my White men and make more Whites and Delaware Orps. There is a guy in the UK years ago made his version of Del Orps, he was Bob Follows. He then retired sold his stok to Keith of Keith's Orps who sold some to Essex Orpington of the UK. Not one drop of common blood to mine. Mine are APA type that I also can use for my SOP