If you want to stick with the Sweetgrass, do not breed them with Bourbon Reds or Narragansett. With the Bourbon Red you will introduce the red color gene and the F1 generation will be Red Bronze. With the Narragansett, if the Narragansett is a tom you will produce Narragansett Semi-Color Semi-Gray hens and Bronze Semi-Color Semi-Gray toms for the F1 generation. If you use a Sweetgrass tom over a Narragansett hen, the F1 generation will all be Bronze Semi-Color Semi Gray.
The TCMB tom has the same father as the Sweetgrass. No matter what you breed him to, there are a lot of different color varieties possible. He is Bb1 Ccg dd.
If you want Sweetgrass, breed the Sweetgrass to each other and watch for any oddities. The easiest way to bring new blood into a Sweetgrass flock is to breed a Sweetgrass tom to Royal Palm hens. Any female offspring will be pure Sweetgrass. Any male offspring will be phenotypical Sweetgrass but carrying a hidden Narragansett color gene. Do not use those males for breeding.
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Maybe I should just concentrate on growing out my pretty birds, for now, and see whether I even want that much busyness in their feather patterns. I dunno. They’re really gorgeous already. 
and I guess the sun got all huffy ‘cause we have had an awfully long wet cold spell since then. Hope we get some sun this year. Hope I’m not wishing for another 7 yr drought. 
