I understood from what he said, that they should be separated. I have both lemon and gold, but because of some bad information I have one rooster of each color in a big enclosure with 15 girls of both colors. Looks like I need to do some moving around now. I think the prevailing information in this country is that they are a landrace and can all run together. Apparently that is convenient, but wrong.
GFF, sometimes seems to ad lib the answers. I trust a real breeder in Germany. He has shown me pictures of his birds and they are outstanding. This is my lemon rooster and pullet.
Better than I would have believed! They outdo my leghorns. They lay at 5-7 every week/pullet. My girls are still young, so the egg size is not large yet. According to GFF they lay large eggs.
I was studying one of my lemon pullets today. In the sun, I can see she has streaks of the gold in her lemon. I think we got what we got from GFF. We are kinda at their mercy, but we can improve on it and not carry the bad practices forward. I was wondering if they started the landrace thing with this breed to justify the muddy colors? I do believe the colors can be cleaned up with good practices. Since silver is recessive, I would think letting them all run together would severely cut back on the silvers hatched. They are not a blue/black/splash breed and should not be treated as such. IMO.
