Hi All
Nope, I'll be checking in, there are too many good things happening with the breed. Sunday I am doing an hours drive to meet a lady to give her the two Delaware pullets, they are from the pen with the IBs.
They are all so sweet its going to be hard to see them go. But this group of IBs is literally hand fed pets, two flighty ones, a miscolored dark partridge cockeral, and one pullet that follows his lead, I am very tempted to cull him, but, will offer that option to the new owner. I will be thinking on that this weekend. Right now I amnot impressed by enough positive things about him.
As Kari said as they mature the color gets as it should be, still have two smaller partridge pullets that show quite a bit but bred to a correct IB rooster I am sure the chicks will be better then their mothers. As I've said before, to me the only one in the flock that really must have correct color is the rooster. The hens get a lot of leeway to me. For them its strictly production qualities I score. All of these came out of beautiful eggs. Thats half the requirement.
There is a core of these that have beautiful brick conformation already, including the Birchen cockeral that I think is the potential flock meister. And he eats from my hand and seems to enjoy being petted.
Life goes on, and this is a very nice beginning flock for somone.
