What all started it was Douglas. I had nothing but Buff, Buff, Buff. Prairie (a Barred Rock rooster) and Douglas came on to the scene, and being sick of Buff, I fell in love with Douglas's colors. So instead of breeding with Jimmy (my Buff Comet roo), I bred with Douglas. He provided the new color, white, into the flock. I didn't think that he was pure Ameruacana or the EE that everyone refers to, so I didn't know if I'd get any new egg colors other than the same ol brown. Well, he gave blue to blue green eggs. I loved the patterns that Douglas gave. As far as muffs/beards, Douglas didn't offer that. He was muffless. Kinda the reason why I thought he wasn't pure, because that breed had always had the muffs on the roosters. I questioned if he was part Red-Shouldered Yokohama because of his color pattern. I wasn't looking for a pea comb, but I did get that. On the legs, they had all different colors. Chenoa had white, Marvalo and Vienna had olive, and Shiloh and José had yellow.
Oh, and I said it in another post, they were a group. I can't really classify them as a breed. If I can rebreed the Douglas Whites in the future, I'd love to prefect them as a breed, though I'd probably never go for getting them recognized by the APA.
