I'm working on my daughter's wedding at the moment - she gets married the fourth... But after that, certainly.
Some smut clears, yes. No smut is bad. Too much smut can be persistent.
The most serious color faults in my pullets, I would have to say at this point is the couple who's columbian neck hackles are not barred and one with very light neck/tail color, but the male I kept will fix that. His barring is dark and distinct.
Their sizes are fairly consistent but the hatchery pullets are going to stay smaller by about a pound the first year and probably two in the second/maturity if they run in the same difference % as my heritage rocks to my hatchery rocks and there are many similarities. Of breeder/heritage over hatchery stock in all three breeds I've kept.
So far the girls combs are straight, some short a point, some five, two six. Two are laying. The others are younger. All the pullets are four weeks or more younger than the boys were. Because they came from two different sources. A breeder and a hatchery.
I wish I had gotten a few pullets from Gallant's breeder but will get eggs from her in the future and from a show breeder.
Always working up.
The breed is young enough there's a lot of work even in the best lines. Lots to sort as lines are combined to different effects. What these three lines will produce will probably be all over the map - the nature of combining new genes. But I should get enough birds with improvement if I put 100 chicks on the ground next spring. And that's the plan. I'd rather more but I'd need another large coop and don't know if I will get that done.
I grew out about 80 birds this spring summer. So I've got that part figured out.
Good thing I found that old redwood cabinet bator... LOL.
