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I think that the blues in alot of cases arent as cleanly laced yet as the standards that have been bred for many generations. and blue genetics will give you blacks, too. so if I were you I would breed them back to your nicer blacks and think about them more as a project.

are these supposed to be blue or regular black double laced? if blue. I would get somegood quality standard Barnevelders to breed with and only keep the ones with the cleanest lacing. if black, there are plenty of nice black barnevelders out there to start with that would have alot cleaner...

Now that we are talking combs, I have been looking at my boy's combs with a finer tuned eye. I am actually thinking my blue boy has a better comb than my standard colored boy. my standard colored boy's comb might push a bit too far onto his beak? Here is the blue boy...his points seem more...

I know, right?

Thanks! I will do that!!! I wish I had the skill with a camera to capture the irridescence of the plumage. The feathers are so gorgeous when the sun hits them. Closest in the photos I guess is that one where the flash went off. But my camera is not the best. All the photos lack the...

I ordered one online! just haven't figured out how to use it yet! here are a couple of better photos of them from this past winter...

oh, cool!!!!! I have one standard colored and one blue rooster and 5 standard colored girls these are the most recent photos I have of them. self assessment on the standard colored rooster is he needs better tail angle and he has some lighter colored fluff at the base of his tail. the blue...

after reading this, I wish I knew where to get a couple...sound like a great breed for eggs for decorating and quite attractive birds! how big are their eggs usually?

so somewhere around PMS 174?

Wouldn't it be great if the SOP would refer colors to pantone colors (if anyone is into printing they would know what that meant) Pantone color charts used to be the standard for selecting a specific color. (don't know if still is)

I am no expert, but I rather like her silhouette and body carriage except for the extreme tailset. (Wonder what causes that?) would like to see a top-down view to confirm, but it also looks like she may taper off to the rear...coloring looks good. wingset looks good in the side shots but low...

I take it the heat tolerance is because of the larger combs? So the rosecombs wouldn't have as good tolerance of heat, a tradeoff for their cold tolerance?

healthy!!!!

(now I want to run home and look at my chickens to see if they have lacing on the body or shafting on the chest)

is she red or colored? I am trying to figure out what colored is supposed to look like. My 2 girls are also from Sandhill. (the SG are from Ideal and I won't be posting them here...LOL)

Ohhh!!! ohhh! that is a question I know the answer to!!! Shafting is a good thing with dorkings!!!!

Where are all the Dorking pictures? Alright, I am new to chickens, but I will post and hopefully learn something. So this is my only adult boy, Mongo He was about 9 months old in these photos. The thing I know is bad about him is the white in his earlobes. but I think his comb is nice and...

I am thrilled too that you are on dorkings. I cant wait to see them!!!! What you don't see in pictures is their lovely temperament! I wish my birds were older...I only have 5 adult birds and the girls are hatchery & the boy has white earlobes. (DQ?)

So ideally they should look the same?