- Cuckoo Stud
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Orpingtons '101'
- Orpington Club Membership
- Orpington Type and Main Colours
- Non APS colours - new and pre-existing but not approved Orpington colours
- Blue Cuckoo Colour Standard
- Lavender & Lav Cuckoo Colour Standard
- Buff Cuckoo Colour Standard
- Red Barred (Cuckoo) Colour Standard
- Chocolate Orpington colour Standard
- BREEDING SPLASH to carry the silver gene >
- Buff Orpington improving Type
- White Orpington improving Type
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About us
- the Stud colours/breeds
- NEWS and UPDATES
- Breeding Cuckoo Orpingtons >
- Cuckoo and Black original lines
- Blue Cuckoo Orpington development
- Buff Cuckoo Orpington development
- Crele, Partridge and Gold Barred Buff Orpington development
- New Colours, acceptance of the colours
- Lavender and Lavender Cuckoo Orpingtons in the backyard
- the Chocolate Orpington >
- Cuckoo Double Bar and Single Bar factor
- the Blue Gene - theory of Mendel's Law
- Blue Cuckoo and Mendel's Law
- Developing multiple related lines
- Orpingtons - larrikin mateship = our first birds
- Our Cuckoo Silkies
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Gallery
- Show results
- Lavender & Lavender Cuckoo Orpington, bantam and large >
- Crele, Partridge Orpington
- Blue Cuckoo Orpington AORC, large >
- Buff Cuckoo Orpington, large >
- Cuckoo Orpington, bantam
- Black Orpington large
- Splash Orpington, large >
- Choc, Choc Cuckoo & Mauve Orpington large
- Choc Crele, Choc Partridge and Choc Birchen large size
- Black Orpington, bantam
- Gold Barred Buff Orpington
- Phoenix
- Silkie
- For Sale
- Contact us
- Acquiring and caring for your Orpingtons
- Feeding - what we feed our birds
- Heat waves, hot days, Summer and Liquefaction
- Artificial UV lighting
- Chook Saddles
- Fertility and my secret recipe
- Posted chickens - how to make them
- Embryonic developmental stages of a chick
- Mareks Disease
- Hatching larger std size birds
- Size = breeding down
- Brooder - recycled and effective
- Growth patterns and assessing birds
- Microchipping your birds
- Secure housing
- Lime - Hydrated and Garden (AG) Lime and their uses in the chook pen
- MOUSE/RAT TRAP chook friendly
- Appraisal pictures of your birds
- 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
- Mosquito control
- Maremma - training a pup
- Fox Traps
- Snake Bite
The Stud's Cuckoo lines - there are several well established ones.
In 1947 the family acquired a number of Cuckoo (and Black) Orpingtons from the UK. The members of the family that had these birds developed their own distinct lines. The Stud acquired a large number of these lines from various relatives over the years resulting from either ill health due to advanced age, or sadly, as a result of a deceased estate.
The Stud also has birds/lines that originate from an Australian breeder/developer and a couple of the Stud’s original line birds were blended with a few of these to give strength.
It was felt the acquired Australian birds were slightly lacking definition of pattern.
The resulting lines are now classed as The Stud’s personal lines, these personal lines are kept exclusively by the Stud.
The Cuckoo lines featuring the new colours developed obviously have other Australian lines blended into them (the Stud owns all the outcrosses etc) and therefore they are classed merely as 'developmental/designer lines' until accepted by the Club.
The Stud has several colours in Cuckoo – and is consistently working towards developing adequate numbers so that the new colours are kept as a closed community.
The Stud breeds its own 'outcross' lines - that way there are few if any 'genetic suprises' that take a number of generations to 'repair'.
Of course once birds go to new breeders and they outcross to their own birds - they are told they will have to breed out what ever crops up from that blending.
When breeding to up the depth of colour the Stud breeds Regular Cuckoo to Black, other colours just screw it all right up =
that was found out the hard way!!
And the other Cuckoo colours to their base colour –
eg:- Splash or Blue that were hatched FROM Blue Cuckoo X Blue Cuckoo matings (note Splash from this mating is rare),
Lavender that came from Lavender Cuckoo X Lavender Cuckoo matings,
Buff that came from Buff Cuckoo X Buff Cuckoo matings.
Chocolate that came from Chocolate Cuckoo X Chocolate Cuckoo matings.
Red that come from Red Barred (Cuckoo pattern) X Red Barred matings.
etc for all Cuckoo colours
The Stud advocates heavy culling to only grow out the very best possible.
All the newer Cuckoo colours = Blue, Lavender, Chocolate, Buff, Red Barred (Cuckoo pattern) have to be exhibited in Any Other Recognised Colour = AORC - with their colour listed - example - lrg Orpington cock-bird AORC Blue Cuckoo
or Any Other Colour or Variety - AOCOV - example - lrg Orpington hen AOCOV Buff Cuckoo
They can not be shown in Australia under the mantle of 'Cuckoo' as they are not listed as recognised colours for the Orpington in the Australian Poultry Standard
A protest for any of these being in the wrong section would be upheld by Show Officials on these grounds.
note there is no such thing as 'Lemon' Cuckoo in Orpington in OZ = no matter the depth of the colouring they are Buff Cuckoo
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