Jacob My Delaware Roo

Wow! those are broad. I can hardly wait for the next generation of your line of Dels. Kathys Dells will be known everywhere I bet. How is the egg layiing going with them. Maybe next yr. I will want some of your eggs. WoW Gloria Jean

Thank you, Gloria Jean! I am very excited and hopeful.

They are absolutely BREATHTAKING!

Congratulations, your hard work and vision is paying off! These birds will help out the Delaware breed a great deal. Thanks!

Kathy, You have taken on a grand challenge and excelled....Congrats!!!

Kathy, Your birds look great!!! A couple of questions, I have a similar project using similar bird crosses but not exactly Rocks and Hamps. Long story, but essentially its the same but my stock came from a closed brown egg laying flock maintained to produce brown egg laying sex-linked birds. Males have the Delaware color pattern and the hens resemble Hamps. My F1's are similar to yours, males with some leakage of brown but most have pretty good barring. The hens are mostly Columbian pattern as of know. My question is, I have hatched a large number of these and have culled the F1 males hard for any brown leakage, but I am still concerned about the barring. Several of mine the barring extends down more across the back instead of staying on the hackle. Did you use any of these to create your F2's in order to ensure that barring pattern or did you stay close to the intended range of the Columbian pattern and use only those with barring on the neck?

They look great Kathy!

You done good girl!! There's some stout pullets in there too! Congrats on what looks to be a very successful project. ....stan

Thanks all !
Bentley - ALL of my F1s were barred. Those were mated together to get these F2s. Of 200 F2s, only about 25 were Delaware or Silver Columbian (Delaware looking). F2s were a variety (as was expected): Barred; Black; Delaware; Split gold/silver males ;Buff Columbian; Barred Buff Columbian & Silver Columbian.

Beautiful, I know these are over a year old but just heard about your birds from CaypayValleyChick. They are amazing!