your hens & pullets!l and I'm so glad you kept Surprise! around so long that he got to show you his good side. 
Kim, this s the one I think I want to send to you. Orange legs? Check. Deep chest? Check. Also happens to be the biggest. And, bonus! Have the best color.
Going to bombard you all with some pics. Will put each bird/grouping on a new post. This first cockeral is an F'5 and has been my great hope. He is the youngest of all my f'5's and was the only broody raised Del. I think I am about to give up on him, it is that darn right wing. It will not fold up properly and this may sound odd but the feathers seem to be almost too wide and I count more than 10 primaries, 1 axial and 10 secondaries. They are still in different growth rates so I know the feathering is not completed quite yet. Love all else about this youngster, he is wide, chunky, lighter in colour. What do you guys think, I am thinking cull?
This is the only one of the 6 older F'5's that I think may be breedworthy. He is darker than I like but the darker tail may help with getting the correct coloured tail on the F'6 pullets. He is very wide and stout but shorter than all the others. The other 5 have all ended up with squirrel tails, I swear, overnight they just all went uprightHe and his brothers were dustbathing in mud so he looks a little darker in his lower fluff and right under the wings than he is. If Leslie decides to do a 3rd mating, this boy will go over to her when I am done with him so she has a more distantly related breeding.
Leslie's PapaDel and 3 of my original f'4 hens from Kathy. He was doing his best to protect them from me and they absolutely adore him, he is an amazing guy!!! I love how these hens still look like pullets, they will be 2 years old in April. Have heard that is a desireable trait.
The four F'5 pullets that I will be using PapaDel over as well. Colour issues for sure but am liking/size type. Have one other i may use but she is one of the type with the bulging keel up front. She is very large, has a great open tail and the best colouring of all of the 5 I culled down to. Just don't like her balance but am keeping her in reserve.
Do you have photos of the sire & hen that produced this cockerel? I'd like to see how to get lighter color like him.
Here's Dad, he got so brassy I culled him.
Wow, his cockerel shows no sign of brassiness. Has the cockerel been out in the sun much?
He is out all the time but is young yet. The birds I got from Kathy, none showed brassiness as youngsters. Of the three I ended up keeping, two went quite brassy after a year old. Of my F'5's many showed brassiness right around 6 mos. old.
Kim, this s the one I think I want to send to you. Orange legs? Check. Deep chest? Check. Also happens to be the biggest. And, bonus! Have the best color.
