I still got to wait 6 month until my first hatch.
Maybe a test before the real thing. Since my hens were so early laying eggs I need to wait a little longer before I start. They say that hens around the time they start laying are in "bloom" and at their prettiest. That's why you should time the hatch with the show(s). Mine are well "done"... laying well. For a large chicken they don't need a lot of time to grow up.
Next year! Everything is going to be different. Starting with coccidia immunization and later hatch....
Oh, @Erba ... try washing your roosters with the yellowing. My friend uses shampoo for white horses. It might help with the yellowing. She has some issues as well... but it might actually be hard to get rid of.
By the way... Robert Höck hast a new video about Sulmtaler. My breeder friend Eva was featured in it. When you look at about minute 11+ you'll see a gold-wheaten hen. She came from my flock. I had hatched as a test and Eva took the chicks.
thanks for video, nice chickens.
white chickens do get yellow when spend time outside on sunny days. I have read somewhere in the forum that people that show white birds keep them in a shadow.
I suppose most chicken breeds come in different colours, I know the speckled Sussex is much more popular in England and the US, the Coronation Sussex is very rare now, and then there is white, buff, red and silver. Story goes, that in 1903 a couple of men decided to create a Sussex Poultry Club, and at the first meeting there was chaos, because all the farmers thought that all their breeds were Sussex and every one of them wanted them to look like theirs. I' can just imagine it, because before that time, Sussex chickens were any chicken that laid a good amount of eggs and was good for eating. 
