White Orpingtons

[wilds of pa]

Nice little start to a large White orp flock there.., at least the leg color is white to start off..

Body size is looking pretty good as well considering they are young birds and will fill out some more..

Guess not everybody is getting wrong leg color from McMurry..

Thanks for sharing the pic..

Charlie

 

[herechickchick]

Guess so. They must have mixed up the order. Emptynest your white orp is pretty.

 

[shelleyb1969]

I emailed Gayle this morning. Now I'm waiting (with my fingers crossed!) to hear back from her. I really hope I can get a few eggs from her.

 

[Sugar Sand Farm]

I have a pair of white orpingotns I got from Sandhill. I didn't order them I ordered blues. When they started to feather out they were white.My hen still has one blue feather on her side. Here is a picture of my cockerel when he was 18 weeks.

here is a picture of my hen she was around 15 weeks here.

 

[lesliet]

ok checked out my whites legs and they are YELLOW, so no I do not have white orps, so the one selling on ebay right now does not have orps.

 

[QuailHollow]

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[wilds of pa]

micki, they are great looking birds,even the white regardless of the leg color and they still make great eye candy..

Thanks for sharing your pic's with all us Orp enthusiasts

Charlie

 

[KingsCalls]

I should have standards in a few days...

Right now they are inc.........u.........bating..



Did you notice shipping cost on 6+ white orp eggs on e-bay? $14.00 !

 

[wilds of pa]

KingsCalls, Hope you have a great hatch on them,,keep us updated..

Charlie

 

[tadkerson]

needmorechickens! :

Email Gayle at [email protected]

They do still have the white orps, they are out of BBS Orps and LF Salmon Faverolles.

I also wonder what recessive white means.

~Rebecca

Rebecca,

There are two different genes that can cause a chicken to be solid white. One gene is dominant white which with the help of other genes can make a solid white bird. It only takes one dominant white gene to make a bird white because the gene is dominant over most other genes for color. Dominant white is a tricky gene so I have kept it simple in this explanation.

The other gene is the recessive white gene. A bird has to have two of the recessive white gene to be white. The gene is recessive and other genes can dominate one recessive gene but two recessive genes act together to dominate the other color genes. The recessive white genes are very good at eliminating color in a chicken and need very little help from other genes to make a white chicken.

There is a third way of getting a white chicken and that is with two blue genes which produce a splash. Normally splash birds show splashes of blue on a white ground color. If a person used the right combination of genes, they could produce a white bird that was splash. Getting the tail and wings completely white may be a bit tricky but I believe it could be accomplished.


Tim​