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I'm just saying you won't have a variety of colors, you'll have red leakage on everyone in a generation or two. Red is like that. If you like it, that's good! If you want to sell birds, it will often be a problem.

Leakage is colors like the red on them which doesn't belong to the ground color. It's going to be difficult or impossible to get birds that don't have red leakage, and may get even worse. Combs that flop over are widely considered undesirable, however there's at least one breed out there that...

They all have a lot of leakage. Their combs are falling over. Honestly, I would cull all of them and get a real Ameraucana rooster instead. That would help with Muffs & Beard, ensuring blue egg color, and help with achieving an actual feather color.