Orpington (chicken)
| Orpington | |
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| BDRG standard | |
| origin | England |
| Breeder | William Cook |
| year | 1886 |
| colour | yellow, black, white, partridge-colored banded, red, birch-colored, blue-lined, yellow-black lined, black and white checkered, brown-porcelain colored, striped |
| Weight |
Rooster: 4–4.5 kg |
| Laying performance (in the 1st year) |
180 |
| Eggshell color: | yellow |
| Minimum weight for hatching eggs: | 53 g |
| List of breeds of chicken | |
The Orpington is a great English Hühnerrasse , the end of the 19th century by the Englishman William Cook in Orpington in the county of Kent was bred.
He used Plymouth Rocks , Croad-Langschans , Minorkas and others for breeding . The aim of this breed were chickens with a high laying performance . In the first year they lay around 180 eggs, preferring low laying nests. The Orpington have a pronounced breeding instinct.
Orpington are a heavy breed and are good sources of meat and eggs.
Because these chickens are heavy, they can barely flutter over four foot fences. They are richly feathered without being loose. Most chickens are single-combed , rose- combed only occurs in yellow and black hues.
When fully grown, the roosters weigh 4 to 4.5 kg, the hens 3 to 3.5 kg. Orpington are calm and quickly become trusting.
Colors are black, white, yellow, porcelain-colored, black-and-white checkered (black with white spots), blue-lined, striped, red, partridge-colored-banded, yellow-black-lined, birch-colored, with the dwarfs only black, white, yellow, blue and striped. Rose-combed: yellow and black
New ideas: color code and rose-combed black
They are calm and fast-growing chickens; the hens tend to become obese if they are overfeeding.
Black Orpington Rooster
Black Orpington hen head
Orping clay hens are yellow
Yellow orping clay hen
See also: Dwarf Orpington
literature
- Walter Schwarz, Armin Six: chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl (= the big poultry standard in color . Band 1 ). 7th edition, revised and supplemented by Armin Six. Oertel and Spörer, Reutlingen 2004, ISBN 3-88627-511-6 , Orpington, p. 221-226 .
- Christie Aschwanden, Andrew Perris: Beautiful chickens . LV book in Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster-Hiltrup 2011, ISBN 978-3-7843-5128-5 , Orpington, p. 18th f . (English: Beautiful Chickens . Lewes, East Sussex 2010. Translated by Dorothea Raspe).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Special Association of German Orpington Breeders: Colourways , accessed on July 14, 2015
- ↑ a b Walter Schwarz, Armin Six: The large poultry standard in color . 7th ed. 2004, pp. 223-226.
- ↑ Christie Aschwanden, Andrew Perris: Beautiful chickens . LV book in Landwirtschaftsverlag, Münster-Hiltrup 2011, ISBN 978-3-7843-5128-5 , Orpington, p. 18 (English: Beautiful Chickens . Lewes, East Sussex 2010. Translated by Dorothea Raspe).
- ↑ Walter Schwarz, Armin Six: The large poultry standard in color . 7th edition 2004, p. 221f.
- ↑ History of the Orpingtons on the Orpington Club Switzerland ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Walter Schwarz, Armin Six: The large poultry standard in color . 7th ed. 2004, pp. 222-223.
- ↑ Breed standard at Orpington Club Switzerland ( Memento of the original from December 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
