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It's hard to do a good critique from pictures, but I'll try. His comb is overly large and flopping a bit in the blade, which is not desired. It look like there might be a thumb print defect in the blade, but I can't really tell from the pictures. He does have a lot of mulberry/red in the comb...

Will do :)

I sell shipped eggs :) However, my birds aren't laying right now, so I don't have any at the moment.

Tail set is important in any breed. I believe if I'm remembering correctly the proposed standard called for a 45 degree tail set on hens. So the first hen is more correct.

Snapped a few pictures of the grow outs. Nobody wanted to pose well, of course :rolleyes:

The ban in still in place and has been for years and years, so anything that came in in the last five years, which would be both of those lines if they were imported, is illegal. Will anyone do anything about it? At this point probably not, but I'd rather not have them myself just in case.

Probably, yes. The Raven line is said to be from Indonesia, and someone who bought birds from Banko told me he had imported them a couple years earlier from Indonesia. Both lines are therefore in the country illegally.

I'm gonna call possible male on 4 as well. 1,2,3 are definitely males and 5 and 6 look like pullets so far.

It pretty much is saying that all GFF stock are mutts, yes. Pus, that's not how genetics work. If a bird is heterozygous for something and you breed it to another heterozygous bird, 25% of the offspring will be homozygous for whatever that trait is. So them being 'heterozygous' and the raven...

You can't import from Indonesia legally. If those birds are what they say they are, and they did import them into the country from Indonesia, then they are in the country illegally, and I would have nothing to do with that. They're also wrong about GFF being the first import, because TMA had...

Excellent advice :) The phrase usually used is "You can't paint a barn before you build it." Structure first, color later. This goes for all breeds. Got a bird with great coloring but it has wry tail? Nope, don't breed that. Ameraucana with good color but has feather stubs? Also shouldn't be...

The reasoning is feather stubs are recessive. Breed that and your birds are going to carry it, and you'll never know which ones without a lot of test breeding to find out which ones and it's a total nightmare to find and cull the carriers. So, can you breed them and get babies without feather...

You may find that when they mature you don't have a male with no red or mulberry in the wattles. Even males that are nice and dark as chicks can develop it. If that does happen, just pick the best one and breed forward with him. You can get nice dark offspring out of males that have mulberry, so...

They're getting to the age where you should be able to tell for sure soon. As a side note, I noticed that the purple banded one has feather stubs. Don't breed that one unless you want a lot of feather stubs down the line.

Not on hand, but I'll see about taking some.

Thanks! Six weeks today actually for the St. Patrick's Day cockerel :) The other is about a week younger, so right around five weeks and a couple days.

Snapped some quick pictures of some of the older growout cockerels. The camera has such a hard time with their blackness. I'll need to break out my DSLR to get some good pictures instead of using my phone. This guy below is the St. Patrick's Day cockerel that I don't know if I'll keep or not.

This gorgeous little one hatched in my last batch. Can't wait to see how it grows out.

Lol, no worries, not the first time someone has called me a he and I'm sure it won't be the last :lol:

I'm actually a ma'am :P I would keep all the pullets and put the best rooster over them. Then hatch and pick out the best from your next generation to continue forward with. If you find you have leakage, if at all possible don't use a leaky cockerel. If you do have only leaky cockerels to...