Making Lemonade [Selective Culling Project - very long term]

[U_Stormcrow]

One of the newer, more successful, recent hatchings.

Wandering away from me. This is the best phopto I've obtained in weeks of trying. Wish you could see the wings - the flight feathers have patterning.

 

[3KillerBs]

One of the newer, more successful, recent hatchings.

Wandering away from me. This is the best phopto I've obtained in weeks of trying. Wish you could see the wings - the flight feathers have patterning.

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Looks promising!

 

[U_Stormcrow]

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[JacinLarkwell]

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Are these keepers?

 

[3KillerBs]

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I know you don't want foot feathers, but that girl has some nice clay-tones and a bit of patterning.

 

[JacinLarkwell]

I love how yellow their legs are too

 

[U_Stormcrow]

the yellow is CRAZY intense, and yes, they are the likely keeps of the batch before last (all of last batch was culled, except the two I'm taking this weekend, one black, one grey.) Foot feathers will eventually be bread out, but in the interim, i can live with them to get pattern genes I want. There's one other bird that batch I will likely keep as well, but it wouldn't hold for a picture (the one I photo'd Tuesday)

 

[3KillerBs]

Foot feathers will eventually be bread out, but in the interim, i can live with them to get pattern genes I want.

Just remember that most patterns are recessive so keep track of which eggs come from the patterned hens and breed their sons back to them.

 

[SheaLoner]

Are you looking more for something like this patternwise?

 

[U_Stormcrow]

My preference would be something that looked like a Dark Brahma, only a gold base. Not the Light Brahma/Buff Brahma gold base birds whose pattern has all but disappeared everywhere except the neck

More like this - (though I don't need the markings that crisp, by any means). Plus a more prominent comb and clean legs.