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Center, far back, you will see a VERY dark striped female (directly behind gray colored BPR), to this day she looks VERY different from the others, again leading me to believe I have cleanup work to do with the breed.

Here is the offspring. The black are BPR that were accidentally mixed in with RB eggs, according to her they never were breed together, so they can be ignored. I see that I have one really light male, top left corner, and two darker males in right side, which makes me think they are not pure...

From first post to this thread: "I purchased 2 dozen fertile eggs from a lady I found on craigslist, she said she got hers from rarebreed.com, and that those were from Green Fire stock. I do not know anything other than what I have mentioned, regarding what is now my own flock of what I hope are...

I'm going for good dark color and type, then purity.... so let me wrap my brain around this a little better, haha. It's a lot to digest at once, for my skill set anyway.

Perfect, thank you very much. I will post pictures in a couple days of what I'm working with, I hope you can chime in on which I should cook and which I should keep, for my hopeful project.

Do I then breed the f2 chicks to each other when they come of age? And would that then be a true breeding flock? Let's say I went the route of breeding back the f1 hen to Rhodebar father, then breed the best of the f2 to each other...

OK, after posting to this thread, I went back and read everything up until page 120. This is fascinating, and very important too. Unfortunately, just when I think I understand what I need to do, I realize I have no clue whatsoever. My goal is to have a flock of true breeding, darker colored...

Here is the only picture I have of them as chicks. I wasn't as enthusiastic then as I am now, otherwise I'd have many more, and much closer up too. The black ones are BR birds, so you can disregard those. Like I mentioned previously: "I purchased 2 dozen fertile eggs from This Lady, she said...

Hello everyone! This thread is fantastic; I'm very excited to possibly join in on the breeding fun. I'm new to chickens, but have a passion for them (and ranching, but that's not related to this). I purchased 2 dozen fertile eggs from This Lady, she said she got hers from rarebreed.com, and...