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This shows a bird with decent mottling, the feathers should be black with a white tipping, which should have a V shape.

That is stress barring.... which is pretty bad if you have that much of it.... If I am wrong about that sell them for $1000 a pair as mottled orpingtons and buy more blacks to replace all of yours and feel lucky for getting $500 birds instead of $50-100

Congrats! How big was the Class?

Chocolate over splash would produce all mauve female offspring, and blue male offspring.

Depends what you look at,

It does have the wrong leg color, they are green rather than being slate.

You would have to keep breeding Buff Laced to Buff Laced and select for the birds that dont have the blue specks showing in what should be the white part for breeders. It would take several generations.

Here is one for Bill.... I found this picture on a german poultry group on facebook Rosecomb Blue Orpington from Germany

What variety are they?

Maybe they just wanted to add some eye candy to their flock of layers and got some culls off a breeder.

No you cant tell them apart Ill probably just mention the possibility.

I personally am using a Choc split male in my Black breeding this year, I personally don't see any wrong in having birds with hidden genes if it wont affect the flock overall, just as Wyandotte breeders have SC birds show up, and some lines of black have whites come out. I just see it as...

The ones that have the gold in their necks probably have only one dose of the gold gene, where as the ones with the red have two doses. The gold gene is what makes a bird any of the colors from Buff to the deep mahogany red, there are other genes that are with it that creates the depth or...

Typically the genetics would be different. From my understanding blacks typically carry the Gold gene whereas blues should have the silver gene to improve lacing. Also some blacks that come from blues that have good lacing will have a good green sheen with a lacing of flat black around the...

The genetics arent there in the orp pictures.

It looks like a mix of different varieties to me, wouldn't breed true. But Shaffer is right, it most closely resembles the silver penciled coloring. For Birchen the bird would be black with silver in the hackles.

Its a Black Bantam Cockerel, that is mine :D

Yea I thought I put the caption on it but I must have forgot. Its a bantam cockerel.

The tail angle according to the US standard should be 25 deg for males and 15 for females. In the UK there is no set angle for the tail, it just should be short and high but not squirrel tail.