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Oops 🤦‍♂️ For some reason I thought you were the one who started the thread, and the pic of your roo was answering to me asking to see their roo! I’m sorry for the confusion. That’s why I responded the way I did, I bet it was strange getting criticism on your birds when you were just showing...

In my opinion you should wait to cull cockerels unless there are major faults obvious as this age. I’d wait at least until they are fully feathered and have began to show adult colours. This way you can judge in the quality of cream and gold (on the shoulder). You also should consider the...

Ah I see, that explains everything. Is the hen in the first photo (the one that started the thread) a pure bred or mix? Cross breeding them will probably increase your egg yield anyway, so it likely works well do you.

I quite like your boy, the red shoulder would suggest a lot of autosomal red. He’s not perfect but I’d say he’s the best CCL I’ve seen in your pictures. The paler parts of his hackles are roughly the cream colour you are looking for. Non of the legbar hens I can see are very good colours, the...

Excuse the mud, we’ve had torrential rain here(I had to get ‘rescued’ from my own street in a canoe). I haven’t gotten a photo of all my CCLs, but these few are good examples. Notice how the head is pretty similar to your bird’s, almost silver. This is the cream dilution, it turns gold pale. I...

Ah! Forgot to get those photos. I promise to try at the weekend. I’ll show you some photos I have of when they were younger, this won’t show their type but the feather colour is still there, and that’s what you care about for now. You can see that the neck itself is still very pale, a cream...

I’ll get you some photos of mine later, they are from a good English line of CCLs (I can’t take any credit for that, I just payed for them). My first concern is the complete lack of salmon in the breast, a defining characteristic of the duckwing pattern on hens. It seems to me that she has no...