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Hey, For those who will be selecting for size- size of chickens is not everything. In selecting a meat bird growth rate (how fast the chick develops) is very important. You can have a 10 pound cock but it took 25 weeks to reach that weight it would not make it in any of my breeding programs

If anyone is interested about production traits the ALBC has some good guides: http://albc-usa.etapwss.com/images/uploads/docs/ALBCchicken_assessment-1.pdf It's not great but a good start

Indeed the bresse should be selected for those traits - but also growth rates after all one must not forget they are a production breed. I would not be afraid to cross these with some nice white Cornish and see what emerges. It can often depend. In my mind there are poultry artisans and...

IMO a lot more time should be spent breeding numbers up before any consderiation is put in a SOP. After all the French government selects the legitimate bresse breeders. More of a focus should be spent on production rather than a creating a SOP

So The breese are dom white so I this means it will hide most colours (you can get some red leakage). Regarding the "splash" bird GFF got from crossing a white and a black... Nope not a splash. So most know the 25%,50%,25% of breeding blue. Blue's gene symbol is Bl. bl/bl = Black...

I don't know. Something about this seems.... Umm fishy. First egg colour generally only increases when you select for it (because you have to select cockerels from the darkest of eggs... Not exactly easy). I suspect GFF took some liberties... Esp. when we are seeing such a variance in egg...

I am going to be blunt... And brutal... No. The only true Bresse breeders are locked away in french owned breeder farms and hatchery - They do not let the breeders leave the farms. Any one that claims they managed to smuggle birds out of france do not have the real thing... The Bresse are...