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This is Goldie. Beautiful Buff!
 
Good lord... just had this monster brought into work... he's easily 2x the size of a normal EE rooster. If I didn't know better I would swear he had oriental blood... of course being me I immediately told the owners I'd take him.

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And here... that's his cage on the left, which as you can see he's so tall his tail and head touch the roof... well here on the right is a cage with a normal sized EE in it... to give a size comparison.

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Still trying to think of names. King? Big Daddy? Behemoth? He's something to behold, for sure.

Beautiful bird
 
Beautiful !
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I'm thinking of starting a sex-link EE project with my BBS AMs in the next year. For my hen I was considering a BR, Cuckoo Maran, or a Dominique (for the rose comb). Which do you think is the better choice?
Cuckoo Marans, if you source from a good line with dark eggs, will produce Olive Egger sexlinks. With the Dominique, that rose comb combined with the genes for pea comb result in cushion combs. A Barred Rock crossing could yield a variety of shades, from teal blue to light olive green, and you would still retain the pea comb. If you used a Barred Holland, you would be sure of blue layers only.
From a production standpoint, the Barred Rock based sexlinks tend to be outstanding layers.
My boy had a red Easter Egger father, who happened to be pure for the blue egg gene; and a Barred Rock mother. His half sisters (same father, different mothers) eggs range from pale turquoise blue to a pale olive green.
 

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