Thanks for your vision for this project. It gives me an excuse for myself to get some chickens I wouldn't have gotten other wise🤣🤣. I've always wanted Phoenix since I was a kid.
Got a few more birds to start the project with. Picked up two sliver phoenix cockerels and 4 hmong/ brazilian shamo mixed hens. Drove round trip about 260 miles.
So the traits I should be looking for in foundation/parent stock would be.
1. Fibromelanistic
2. Green egg layer
3. Size
4. Long saddle and tail feathers
Here are some of the birds I will start out with. Let me know what you think?
First one predominantly Shamo.
Second one some type of asil/oriental mix with feathered legs.
Third one hen Ayam cemani mix either cochin or silkie.