good luck on your iowa blue project - we weren't intending on breeding iowas (or any breed) 18 months ago when we got our first chicks. then late last year a friend was looking to re-home his iowas , & after researching the breed, we decided that it would be a worthy project & breed to do ehat...
Would you like us to document anything on color &/or patterns on our hatches of the chicks to adult to see if anything becomes consistant or somewhat "predictable" - we seem to get mostly Smokey & birchen/charcoal chicks & very few silver. on our most recent hatch, ive noticed some variation...