Full Mottle(d) Jacket.. - my journey to a colorful coop...

[Farmgirl283420]

This years breeding session opens with a 50 shades of gray theme. Due to the unexpected death of my nice little black rooster (I think he've gotten in a fight with another one and broke his neck against the coop, I found him lying straight on his back, dead, a hour before he was all well) I put every egg from his girls available into the incubator. Got 7 little chicks with color variation from solid black (comb and beak included) to slate blue, two black mottled maybe.

The millefleurs are still a difficult theme. Currently I have the last batch of hopefully MF eggs in the incubator, due in a couple of weeks.

Anyway, things looking bright this season.

Chicks are just so cute! I’m glad things are going well, sorry about your rooster.

These are somme of my black pearls and the late rooster

Very pretty.

and here some of my Millefleurs, it's still quite difficult tohatch or find birds who respect le standards color scheme, which is quite restrictive when it comes to the color pattern.

This makes me want some