chocolate orpington

  1. melissamar97

    Chocolate Orpington roo and pullet? 6 weeks old

    I have 11 6-week old chicks, two are Chocolate Orpington. The rest are two are other color Orpingtons (Buff and Choc/Gold laced), a Wyandotte, a Barred Rock, two Olive Eggers (Cuckoo Marans x Legbar?), two Splash Marans, and a Sussex. The first four pics show the bird that looks like a roo to...
  2. Cedarview

    Daydreaming of hatch day

    Currently staring at the eggs on day 7 of incubation. Im so excited for all the hatches to come this year. Oh-me-oh-my do I love Orpingtons <3 I can't wait to see all of the new generations running around this spring, I'm always striving to improve my flock. Pictures of some of my girls and...
    • Cedarview
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    • black orpington blue orpington chocolate orpington chocolate silver laced orpington english orpington mauve orpington mottled orphinton orpingtons silver laced orpington
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    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  3. B

    Sapphire Sky & Choc Orpington

    Hi everyone!! Brand new here! But I'm fascinated with chicken color genetics! I have a few different types I'm planning on experimenting with crossing. But my first cross will be sapphire sky(not gems) hens with chocolate orpington roo. I haven't been able to find a lot on the sapphire sky...
  4. Timbers Happy Hens

    Muave marans?

    So I’m starting an olive egger project and am considering using a blue copper maran roo to cover Americanas and whiting true blue hens. My question is, I will also have chocolate Orpingtons as well and was curious if I had the blue copper maran roo cover the chocolate Orp girls, wouldn’t the...
  5. Lubowski

    Rehoming 3 month old Orpington Roos- Olympia,WA

  6. Daisythechicken

    Super fat baby wyandotte, Normal??

    I bought this blue laced red wyandotte chick and noticed it has ALOT of fat and isnt as fast as the other chicks- Not to mention whenever i pick it up no matter how gentle im holding it its always gasping. Its the only fat chick. Ps, When we bought this chick it was fat already. The brown chick...
  7. P

    English Chocolate Orpingtons - What gender? 5 wks old

    I've got 4 English Chocolate Orpingtons - the way 2 of them act I can kind of already tell they may be cockerels but I'm new to this so I'm looking for help! It may be too early to tell.
  8. kurby22

    Guess the breed? Mix or pure bred? :-D

    I have a challenging one here! I bought 10 chicks from a breeder and she had her pure bred Orpington chicks in with her accidental mixed breed hatch (escaped hen went and got herself knocked up by 3-4 Roos while she was on vacation!). Because so many of them are similar coloring as babies, she...
  9. Z

    English Chocolate Orpingtons and a Dun Gene?

    I have been hatching chocolate chicks from my chocolate roo and hen and I have what seems to be a light, medium, and dark variation. It's clearly three color variations. I've recently been told about the possibility of a dun gene. I'm new to chickens and I need to see pics and learn more about...
  10. K

    Lavender Orpington crosses?

    Hello! I have: 1 Lavender Orpington rooster 2 chocolate Orpington pullets 1 buff Orpington pullet 3 barred rock pullets I’ve been looking for lavender hens/pullets but I’m having zero luck. Has anyone crossed these breeds with Lav Orpington & if so, do you have pictures, pros+cons, etc...
    • Kai98
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    • barnyard mixes barred plymouth rock breed creation breed for color chocolate orpington cross-breeding lavender breeding orpington buff orpington chickens orpington cross
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: General breed discussions & FAQ
  11. Weighton

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  12. Lane Rae

    Orpington dun/khaki/splash?

    Ok this generic color has to still be alive somewhere? Anyone know of a true Dun program??? It isn't sex linked like chocolate but behaves more like blue producing Dun/khaki/dun splash like black/blue/black splash. Please email me at the below address if I don't respond here if you know of...
  13. ChickenCrazy93

    Good Day Everyone!

    I am from Ontario, Canada and decided to start my chicken flock two springs ago, this current spring being my third. Spring #1 Starting with 15 mixed chicks from a local livestock auction which only one was a hen, just my luck. I then saw 40! free cockerel from a German Bielefelder breeder down...
    • ChickenCrazy93
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    • bielefelder brahma chocolate orpington crested cream legbar easter egger german bielefelder mottled orphington silver laced wyandotte
    • Replies: 24
    • Forum: New Member Introductions
  14. Hopethehen

    Help! Hen breathing weird...

    I have four hens, two a year old, but for the other two it’s their first summer! One of them seems fine, but my other (chocolate orpington) seems to be breathing really badly!! She’s panting nonstop, and I gave her grass and she ‘ate’ it but it came back up and she started coughing... she’s...
  15. MatthewsHomestead

    Our small slice of heaven!

    Hi all, I'm Jessica, co-owner of MatthewsHomestead with my husband Daniel. We currently have 6 breeds of chickens and a few rabbits; and are soon expanding to ducks and goats as well! (We get our baby ducks today!) Every expansion and addition we create is a unique learning experience for sure...
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