The first buff looks good, but her foot feathering is too sparse, so she wouldn't make a good show bird, same with the second one. From those pics, the second male actually looks better then the first. The comb on that first one is far too large and red. His color may be more even, but when the second one is bred to those females, the color of the males will lighten up. Black shouldn't be overly concerning in young buffs, as most tend to molt it out and come back very clear. Between the two, I would definately keep the second one.
The splash female looks pretty good, she is a little tall and the cushion could be fuller, but she is a decent bird.
The black looks good, she's out of condition, but I can see that her foot feathering is a bit sparse. She has a nice cushion and even coloring.
In breeding a blue into a buff line, all this does is simply lighten up the black smuttyness in the tail by adding the blue gene. It does not reduce the off coloring in the buff. Your best bet if wanting to add the blue gene would be to breed with a splash so that you're guaranteed to get the blue gene, where if you breed with a blue, there's only a 50% chance you'll get it and the other 50% will have more black than you started with.
The splash female looks pretty good, she is a little tall and the cushion could be fuller, but she is a decent bird.
The black looks good, she's out of condition, but I can see that her foot feathering is a bit sparse. She has a nice cushion and even coloring.
In breeding a blue into a buff line, all this does is simply lighten up the black smuttyness in the tail by adding the blue gene. It does not reduce the off coloring in the buff. Your best bet if wanting to add the blue gene would be to breed with a splash so that you're guaranteed to get the blue gene, where if you breed with a blue, there's only a 50% chance you'll get it and the other 50% will have more black than you started with.
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