Are goals and projects the same?
Projects:
1) I am breeding my Tallent millies with the TX millies, to get more pattern with the same excellent foot feathers my Tallent millies already had. The Tallent millise are
technically correct by the standard, but judges are into heavier dots. I'm trying to find a middle ground. The milies the judges like will be too white too early.
2) I have my Lavender Improvement Project, which involved crossing my lavs (nice color, crappy type) with my millies (perfect type). The splits should've been all black. They weren't. Every one has color leakage, with the cockerals having MAJOR leakage. Most lacing was gold, but a couple of pullets have red leakage instead. I put one in the show and was complimented by both Tallent men on her type. I culled heavily for type early on.
Of my project (Lucky) x project (6 pullets) babies I have:
2/21 yellow chick
2/22 yellow w/ grey chipmunking, black w/ yellow penguin markings, total black w/ dark blue belly (3)
2/23 millie baby, perfect type-y chick
two more pipping tonight....
Those are my projects. My goals are:
1) To take my pair of Tallent blacks and cross them against the project girls later this summer, generating a nice flock of black d'Uccles.
2) Keep producing whites.
3) Keep producing goldnecks.
4) Hatch enough chicks for a prime set of showbirds for fall,
4a) Sell enough chicks at the May 7th Cocke County show to generate my own competition for the state d'Uccle meet in Cocke County in November.
5) Do my best to promote the breed.
6) Hit a d'Uccle state or special meet every month (blew it for March though. DD has a Japanese language class on Saturdays and I have no one to stay with her)
7) Get a website up.
If I'm outta line, feel free to
