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JJ
I have had a few look like her, the questionalbe goldneck that is. She sorta looks like a red pyle in a way to me though. If she is the goldneck, she most likely will be weak patterned, but it's so hard to judge at an early age with those mille based birds.
the 1st brown red looking girls, looks close, little heavy on the breast color.
The second brown red possible girl looks close too, better color, good hackle , just needs a laced breast. Both are possible, breeding will tell the tale on them is about the only way to know for sure.
on the out cross.
There's several ways to do it.
1) have two lines of breed A and breed B to start with.
Breed you F 1 project birds from both lines
Now you have two totally unrelated F 1 groups to start with, you can go a long way on that alone.
It never hurts to go back to the original parent a time or two anyway.
By then you're on F2 -F3 anyway
Then flip flop the matings to the other line of project pure breds.
back and forth like that will get you done.
Now if you want to diversify more. breed them to a blue, dun, lavender, or dominate white unrelated line.
you usually have to do a another cross to get back the color on those chicks.
But then the by product will be more of the normal color phase and yet 1 more new blood line to work with....
That's just a few quick ways to go with it.
In our case, just having 2 lines of d'anvers to back breed to will pretty much be enough to get you there though.
Ask away if you have any more questions on that, want to help you all I can with those .
