Chris those are nice, better so far in color than my pullet most definitely. My pullet being rather melanized was pretty much black and white at first, then slowly over time got her gold on. Only recently has true lacing been forming. With the project she's come out of, it does take a lot of birds to get a proper color again.
Well, looking at the photos again, my pullet looked a lot like the one on top there. She was mostly black but her first secondary feather growth on the breast had some gold on it. The bottom chick is very nice though! Definitely will be a nice Tolbunt color.
Well my boys have started crowing and trying to mate, if the girls would just hurry up with the egg laying we'd be set. LOL They are about 5.5 months old, at least the wait is getting shorter.
Well my boys have started crowing and trying to mate, if the girls would just hurry up with the egg laying we'd be set. LOL They are about 5.5 months old, at least the wait is getting shorter.
Pretty! You might want to keep a male around with bigger beard/muffs though, as it looks like there might be some heterozygous gals there. Course, it is up to ones preference, but it is always nice to keep non-bearded separate from fully bearded.
Well, terrible news on my end, both my mature Tolbunt boys are gone. The frizzle and the smooth. What I'm assuming is a raccoon has been sneaking into the Polish "pen" for a couple days and stealing away and eating birds before I even put them to bed, took the smooth boy the first night then took my frizzle and a hen the second night. I've officially moved the remaining Polish out of there and into the pasture that shares with the Araucanas for now. That way they're safer (safer coop, plus a bigger population and boys who are able to protect themselves better) plus, if crossbreeding happens, I guess it's who cares. My only Polish boys right now are a Houdan cross and some cockerels not even of breeding maturity yet.
Wish I could trap the coons, but, still haven't gotten a trap yet nor the ability to secure the pen a little better from predator intrusion, so, I think Polish breeding in general will have to hold til next spring. Some disturbed dirt towards the most green-dense back corner of the pen shows that the coon may have dug or pushed under the fence from the most camouflaged area for best results.