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Orpingtons '101'
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- Blue Cuckoo Colour Standard
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- Buff Cuckoo Colour Standard
- Red Barred (Cuckoo) Colour Standard
- Chocolate Orpington colour Standard
- BREEDING SPLASH to carry the silver gene >
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- Black Orpington large
- Splash Orpington, large >
- Choc, Choc Cuckoo & Mauve Orpington large
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- Heat waves, hot days, Summer and Liquefaction
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- Posted chickens - how to make them
- Embryonic developmental stages of a chick
- Mareks Disease
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- Size = breeding down
- Brooder - recycled and effective
- Growth patterns and assessing birds
- Microchipping your birds
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- MOUSE/RAT TRAP chook friendly
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- Showing - training your birds
- Coccidia Oocyst cycle and treating Coccidiosis with Baycox
- Lymphoid Leukosis – Avian (The Wasting Disease)
- Coryza Avibacterium Paragallinarum
- Crop problems in poultry
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- Maremma - training a pup
- Fox Traps
- Snake Bite
BUFF CUCKOO - AOC (Any Other Colour)
since 1995
(referred to as Lemon Cuckoo in the UK)
# update = in 2022 (decades after its development in the breed) this colour is still not recognised in the APS* for Orpingtons
it is not listed in the APS*
* Australian Poultry Standard
# pale, medium or dark they are all referred to as Buff Cuckoo in Australia
there is no genetically correct 'Lemon Cuckoo' in Orpingtons in Australia at this time
as the colour is genetically correct to Buff and Cuckoo with the original development using
pure Buff and pure Cuckoo Orpingtons in the development
in Australia we refer to it in its genetically correct form
page being updated - thank you for your patience
since 1995
(referred to as Lemon Cuckoo in the UK)
# update = in 2022 (decades after its development in the breed) this colour is still not recognised in the APS* for Orpingtons
it is not listed in the APS*
* Australian Poultry Standard
# pale, medium or dark they are all referred to as Buff Cuckoo in Australia
there is no genetically correct 'Lemon Cuckoo' in Orpingtons in Australia at this time
as the colour is genetically correct to Buff and Cuckoo with the original development using
pure Buff and pure Cuckoo Orpingtons in the development
in Australia we refer to it in its genetically correct form
page being updated - thank you for your patience