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I have been quite pleasantly surprised by the offspring of the current generation work toward Birchen Rosecomb, I finally had a cockerel from last fall with good color and lobes but only a decent comb, I placed him over a few females from a back cross to Black again and have four young birds...

Charlie has some great BB Reds, that is where we started with them as well. I also acquired a few blacks and splash from her, blacks from another source, and worked the last few years toward Birchen and Silver Blue. I finally have a respectable Birchen Male and a Silver Blue Male, as well as a...

Good looking Brassy and BB Charlie. They are coming along very well. I am looking forward to the Birchen, Silver Blue, and Brown Red next year as well as Columbian which is a much bigger chore. I expect to have showable Birchen Males and females for next fall.

I will keep a good cock as a breeder so long as he does his job well, I have one who is passing the 9 yr mark this year I don't get many good fertile months out of him but what I do get is always worth keeping and feeding. I often just set the best cockerel of the year aside just incase...

That is one good looking cock bird. I do not plan to hatch or raise many Black or Blue this coming year, The Birchen I have been working toward should pan out next year with the last generation coming out with good heads, combs, spikes, body and feather so far. They will be late for hatching...

Shorter Back, Heavier Tail Structure, broader Feather, and improve comb and comb spike, lobes could be a bit bigger as well.

The Birchen Cockerel was bred from F1 birds that were the result of three of your hens and a Birchen OE cock. That one is an F2 Bird, I bred him back to three hens that came from you to improve type, tail, comb, head, and lobe. I have about 15 pullets from that mating coming up now. I also have...

Here is a quick pic of a birchen project cockerel. He has been mated back to Black already for the next generation of breeders to improve comb and earlobe. I have two of his younger brothers with decent earlobes but good combs to go back over the pullets from that mating.

They are looking very good Charlie, you should have another great year. The BB seems to coming around quite well too. I have quite a few F2 Birchen climbing out of eggs everyother week right now just waiting for color to develop to start choosing what gets to stay around longer. The columbian...

Where did you aquire the wheaton pullet? Do you have any Pics?

I believe they are discussing the near Quail colored cockrell, he is clearly split for single comb based on comb structure and is quite likely a OE cross either intentional or not. The cross with the rosecomb and single comb typically results in the spike becoming nearer a blade in the males it...

Charlie, as we discusses here is one of the Birchen F1 malesnot quite finished and not in the best condition but has a purpose other than being shown off. I kept 4 cockrells and 32 pullets and have plans to put as many as I can hatch on the ground to get somewhere quickly. I have one cockrell...

Looking Great Charlie looks like you have had a good year.

Quote: The Pullets have done well for me, I have a good number of Birchen out of them and a few others that will move forward to next year to get the Birchen color back in the Roseomb, that was my first goal with the Black's I will maintain a few reall nice blacks for a few years as I expect...

GO.. Go.... Go..... You may not get another oportunity for the nationals to be so close to home for you in a very long time..

I will start on this color this fall,

The Birchens are taking longer to get enough color in for a decent photo, will likely be a few more weeks when the cockrells begin set in wing bow and sadlle feathers.

As promised photos of th ebegining of the Columbian Rosecomb.. One young cockrell only about 10 weeks old and a few of one of his sisters.. They are both a bit stretched out looking for thier brood mates but wanted to post something for everyone..

Not bad looking birds at all, give them a bit more time to finish out the male needs to molt out the tail and get back in good feather the female may likely pose better than in the photo but looks to be young so a good start.. Good head and comb structure, good body structure, nice feather...

Columbian is back to the Rosecomb... Pics coming soon, had one in the brooder I found 2 cockrells and 6 pullets in the brooders that are thriving and looking very good. Still running that mating so will have even more over the next 6 weeks just blew me away. I will post pics later this week for...