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Correction to that. I found the article I was thinking about. It was actually a post on this site, not a link to anywhere else. It says it is from a Q&A with Tom Whiting, originally posted on a facebook page...

From what I have read, he did a fair bit of work himself too. So the birds with his name are not exactly the same as the ones he started with. Of course he had to start somewhere, but that doesn't tell how much of the work was his and how much was not. Someone posted a link just recently to an...

I've looked it before, more times than I like to count, but eventually it stuck ;) Sounds like a good starting point! As regards selling them, I agree. But of course any kind of chicken can be special to the person breeding them, if they are what you want to have :)

Barring is caused by a dominant sex-linked gene, and you can breed it out in one or two generations. Use an Olandsk Dwarf rooster with a Cream Legbar hen, and you will get sons with white barring and daughters with no barring. Use those daughters for the next generation (backcross to Olandsk...

True, but breeding the F1s to an Olandsk dwarf should give just four classes of chicks: --blue egg with clean face --not-blue egg with clean face --not-blue egg with muffed face --blue egg with muffed face Since it is usually easy to recognize the muff/beard faces at hatch, those chicks could...

If you want the blue egg gene in a small chicken, you could try Easter Egger bantams from one of the major hatcheries. If you order a fairly large number, there is a good chance that you can pick one with no muff/beard that does have the blue egg gene (either 1 or 2 copies. It is possible to...