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Other colours we keep
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We do keep other colours
of Orpington large fowl besides our beloved Jubilee and Spangled, we also keep Black and White!
**New for 2012, we also have White,
Jubilee, Chocolate and Lavender in BANTAM!!
We've had our black lines for about three years now, and
are a mixture of lines, including the great Brian Anderton, and the superb David Pownall birds! Both of which, have done so
much for the Orpington as a breed, and have many champions under their belts! Alot would say, that both these top breeders
have done most of the foot work and gone a long way to create the modern day Orpington we see in the shows all around the
country today. We were lucky enough to obtain a David cockerel from the Federation show a few years ago, he won a second in
his class and caught my eye! The 'son' of this bird just recently won us the Bronze Star award at Selston PC, 2011.
He certainly takes after his Dad! The Black
females we have originally came from our Spangled line, and were the chicks who never got their spots!, being of good quality,
we put them back under our David cockerel to produce better Black birds, our female recently won a second to a huge really
nice Black pullet at the National 2010, not bad for a second year of showing Blacks!
**I don't normally recommend
keeping blacks from outcrosses to other colours, unless they are of Superior quality, but as these were, we decided to go
ahead, and it paid off.
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| Our Black winning Cockerel |
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Left, is a picture of our PCGB Bronze Star winning
black cockerel, he wasn't ready for the Federation or the National shows, but now is mature enough to have a crack at
showing through the summer months. Wish i had a few more like this!!
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We also have some great White Orpington large fowl, Whites are
becoming increasingly rare, due to their high maintenance. If not kept inside, they become ''sappy'' or yellow
from the sun and weather. They can also become dis-coloured if fed maize and corn. I wouldn't call the White Orp a beginners
bird, but the more experienced breeders should give them a go because they do need support. Quite alot of folks take them
on, and get frustrated with them due to the special care you have to take with white birds, but also because they are hard
to find outcrosses for, and alot of lines have become very 'in-bred' proving them hard to breed with. Our lines have
had some German blood added, so don't have this problem, but finding good examples of them to use as an outcross are in
decline! A few breeders have tried outcrossing to white Wyandottes, as this particular breed of bird seems to not suffer the
sappyness that is so apparent in Orpingtons, they have a 'silver gene' which stops this, but as yet no one has been
very successful. You have alot of unwanted effects from doing this, a wyandotte isn't really the same shape as an orp,
it also has a rose comb and yellow skin too.
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| Our National class winning white cockerel |
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| Our National class winning white pullet |
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About N & J Orpingtons
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