Ya...many still tend to Gold.
I got my first Cream Cockerel in 2013 and it wasn't until just this year that I finally got an all Cream Breeding group sent up. Pen #1 still had two gold birds in it but pen #2 was all Cream.
I had someone come on Sunday morning to buy most of my 16-weeks old pullets so I had to take a good look at them last week to see who the keepers were. I was surprised to find that there was only one gold pullet out of the 13 pullets in the 16-week old group. I have 2 gold pullets in a younger group, but I am used to seeing 25%-50% gold. I kept 4 pullets from the 16-week old group. None of them are great. One has good size a nice long straight back full tail and good color, but her crest is tiny. Another one has a great crest, decent angles, but has the black crest coloring that I am trying to work away from and is way under the 50% line if bodyweight. The other two also have some redeeming qualities but some that I am not sure that I want to breed. I will evaluate the younger group in a month. I think there are about 20 pullets in that group. I just need 1-2 really good pullets to make progress this year. I haven't look very close at cockerels yet, but only need one good cockerel to make this year's grow-out group a success.
