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Nice type on your birds @EdenCamp ! I'm glad to see folks are committed to maintaining the English Standards still.

Can't wait to start spring hatches!

Type people, please pay attention to type.

Could Oopsie be recessive White? I think Cuckoos have been used in White breedings, or Whites in Cuckoo breedings, I haven't bred either so I cannot say with 100% certainty if that is true. But I've seen as much mentioned on various forums. if she came from a Cuckoo line that was hiding...

Well I wouldn't throw her out of the breeding pen. If you're going for that extreme English SOP type, the length of her back could be a bit shorter, but she is a good bird, IMO. I would use her for breeding, pairing her with a male that would compliment her. The great thing is now at 2.5...

She's lovely @minihorse927 . Is she the same hen that used to be your avatar pic?

My birds speak to my knowledge about breeding. They are not perfect, but they are a hell of a lot better than some being called "English" out there. Who are you even talking to? You seem to have quoted yourself. Keep my name out of your mouth @kidcody You dug your own grave selling...

Pretty pullets, I'm especially partial to your Blue. They both look like they're going to have nice type as they mature.

Blues. Some LF from the past. I'm working on them in bantams now, type is there, but color needs work still. I had to use bantam Chocolates to get the type I wanted in my Blues, most of the BBS I found when sourcing stock were entirely too "American-looking" for my taste, so I've...

Looking beautiful so far, but at 20 weeks they're still very much babies. Give them time.

@ApiaryandAviary , your Crele X Cuckoo mixed birds might look something similar to this. Good luck!

Your flock looks beautiful @LotsA Cluckin ! Happy Holidays everyone.

So did you finally breed out all of the red feather that resulting from outcrossing your Mottled line to Jubilee? That must have been difficult, seeing how the genetics behind the red bleed through are for the most part recessive, you must have had to really be selective with your breeders...

I saw a FOX up at a open space area/park near my house, which surprised me. I live in a major metropolitan area, I never expected to see a fox in broad daylight. Coons and opossums yeah, but never a fox. Hopefully he stays up at the top of the hill where he belongs.

No, it isn't. Like @rockinpaints commented, this created issues with Mottled lines, not Jubilee.

& now trying to find decent stock, with good type and color pattern, regardless of the variety, is rare. It's good that we've got people like you Nellie, keeping some great lines.

I second this opinion... However. You could put your Jubilee hens under your Mottled rooster, then hatch out a cockerel who will be almost entirely Black Mottled, but with red leakage. Take one of these males, preferably the best typed boy, and put him back over your Jubilee hens. In the...

Looks like color leakage to me, it could just be bleaching from the sun tho... If it is leakage, you don't want to breed him. Too bad, his type is very nice.

This thread has a looong history... I doubt it will be dying anytime soon. ;)

***UPDATED*** I now have a bantam Orpington pair for sale. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/985010/updated-bantam-orpington-pair