I have only hatched three brown red chicks this year and since they are still experimental they still throw sport colors like light brown of which I have one out of the three hatched this year. I have three mature males that vary in color intensity from too much to not enough. The best male I ever raised was in 2005, he had excellent top color and crisp breast lacing and I never got a chick out of him. Brown reds can be produced by breeding black males to recessive white females which will produce, willow legged whites, blacks that molt to white in the 2nd year (these have good yellow legs) and the brown reds. The first generation will not have good color intensity and the females will have black heads with hackle lacing and very little breast lacing but when bred together they'll produce males of good color. The females take a few more generations to get the color right. right now I have one old hen (7) from an original black x white mating and she is still laying but for how long I don't know. There is one other fellow on the east coast that raises true brown red cochins LF but I am not sure how many he has or if he even has them anymore.
I currently raise black, white, blue, partridge, brown red, mottled, buff and working on restoring the brown cochin.
I should have some young birds to bring to the Newcastle sale in about a month or so, no brown reds but some blacks, blues, mottleds, whites, buffs and partridge with some bantam black and birchen thrown in the mix.
Bo
I ended up with a total of 4 Silver Laced and 2 Gold Laced. I'm eyeballing Bo's Mottleds and Buffs now 
