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Nice young cockerel showing a large range of iridescent color. Instead of the purple or violet that I’ve been breeding for a few birds will show a larger spectrum and this one seems to really have lots of potential for the full shift of Blue/Green-Yellow Gold-Violet Purple. He should get better...

New pullet:

You have to get the “Fertile Eggs”. Free range won’t do it because there aren’t any roosters in those flocks. You need to familiarize yourself with the Julian Dating System which will tell you not the expiration date but the date that the eggs were packaged. You need to make sure that the eggs...

Generally when people as about late eggs hatching it’s because they are using an incubator and you can have chicks hatch late if your temperature or humidity are off. If you are using a broody hen the temperature and humidity should be pretty darn close to perfect so I wouldn’t think you’d have...

More shots of the same older birds but more mature now.

This is the same cockerel from the video but new photos: And this is a younger one that should turn out nice: This guy is still quite young and feathering out very slowly and the photos don’t really do him justice but in person his feathers are really amazing for his age and I’m excited about...

I don’t think he’s quite as shiny as his father but he’s closer to solid black. I think there’s still room for improvement but I’m getting there.

My goal is a very shiny bright purple chicken. I want it to be so purple that people don’t think it’s a black bird with iridescent purple. I want them to just see it as “purple”.

Oops...just realized that the top photo was pure Green Jungle Fowl. No...that one isn’t mine.

I don’t have any Bekisars unfortunately.

New cockerel. This guy looks like he’s got good coverage and also looks like he’ll end up pretty big which is the direction that I want to go in.

My first iridescent birds popped up as a byproduct of trying to get Lavender Laced green egg layers. I had a black laced green egg layer that was part Blue Laced Red Wyandotte and part Cream Legbar and I crossed her to a Lavender Orpington. I inbred those birds and very few chicks had Lavender...

What I was trying to say is that if you crossed a Cream Legbar with a pea combed brown egg layer the offspring wouldn’t suddenly recombine to link the blue egg gent to the PEA COMB. I got the impression that it was being stated that the blue egg gene automatically prefers the pea comb which...

That could be the case. It will be interesting to see. I think maybe the darker birds may have mahogany and the brighter birds my have gold. The more visible the pattern might concentrate the iridescence in the black areas. I’m curious but I won’t devote the cage space to just finding out if I...