I would love to see pics of lighest eggs from 'good birds' added to this thread... and pictures of 'worst' birds that still made the breeding pens.
I take and rooster pics of my flocks as a whole. I know some of my birds are imperfect but I don't want anyone to think that every chick will be perfect...
I doubt that anyone could say that every one of their chicks is perfect. I think if people expect that they might be expecting a bit much.
Chosing ones breeders is often compromise; getting the good points while trying to get rid of the bad. I don't think there are very many of my birds at all with which I couldn't find any fault . Even if is something like I'd prefer more copper in the hackle etc. This year I am marking the egg with the individual hen that laid it....that way I hope to take advantage of the hen's good points & good point apart from egg color.
For instance....when teting egg colour...... There was a hen whom I nearly didn't test, she is so runty & inadequate looking.....she's ugly poor thing. I was amazed when she laid amongst the very darkest of eggs. A really stunning egg. Clearly I don't want too many birds looking like her, but I do want her egg colour. It would be daft not to try to capture this egg colour in a better type bird. On the other hand from the silver wheaten project, the nicest of the pullets has the best colour & type, she also lays a lovely dark egg (darker than the others in that project). She had a calcium on egg issue for a couple of days but it went
but it would be too risky to use only her out of the few silver wheaten pullets. I have to use what I've got as I cannot make more; the ancesters were killed during moving house
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Personally, I won't use a bird with very poor egg colour but now I am recording parents of each chick, I shall use some of the passable good colour eggs in order to hopefully gain some other traits.
It's all mix 'n' match & a good bit of hope. Don't you think?
I used copper blues to give extra options where colour is concerned. 
