I'd take the male and breed it to the bearded females. See what hatches and pick the best male(s) and breed them back to their mothers again. That is what I would do with them anyway.
When I had Spitz they never had a pecking problem (and actually my Polish never did either, it was only birds without crests that pecked), but then my birds were from a couple of different people. I felt they were one of the nicest crested birds that I had.
I got spitz eggs from two different sources. I hatched 3 from one and 2 from the other. One of the two from the second set died. The three in the first set have some nice color and crests, the one from the second set is much lighter and I believe the crest is going to go backwards instead of...
Interesting. I would definitely be interested in a crested breed that went broody. I am really pleased to be getting all this information now. I think I will be looking onto getting some from Ideal in the spring as well.
So I have to wonder, on these ones with the small wattles that can still be seen, maybe it is not the wattles that are the problem but the fact that the beard is not good enough to cover them.
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Speaking of huge wattles.....if you want to see some huge wattles on both gold and cream brabanters, look here:
http://www.nantahala-farm.com/chicken-brabanter-s.shtml
That's where I bought my first brabanters from -- before I knew any better. I selected out youngsters that were...
Very good information here. I did not know that about the cream brabanters, I like that color too. I am so glad this thread got started before I got brabanters, I have learned a lot and that really is the whole point, whether we agree with each other or not.
Thank you for the post and pictures. I did know the ones I had were not going to work but it is nice to have the pictures of yours to actually look over.
Mine don't exactly look like they have Polish in them, but then I only have hens right now, but their crests go back instead of forward and the lacing on two of them is really poor. I have my doubts that they would throw a correct crest. I think you would need to start with some with correct...