Rinda, he has good size and shape. I know the color is correct, but honestly I prefer tbe birds with a little color (don't let the folks on tbe threads know, not interested in WW III!)
You should start an Ice Cream Only blog. I would follow you in a heartbeat. You could write funny posts about real food, then feature an ice cream flavor.
Haha! He is very unique looking even for his breed. The UK standard says "some chestnut permissible" on the shoulders so it's totally up to personal interpretation. The UK breeds for as white as they can get them which IMO is part of why their hens have such pale salmon on their chests instead of the darker salmon of the US birds. They should not have RED shoulders the way some of them do though. I'd say my old rooster had a really good balance of color. To ME this fits "some chestnut permissible."
His worse fault I didn't discover until I bred him to his daughters- he's Oo for blue eggs.
So I sold him as dinner and brought in two NEW boys and have to test breed all my girls and figure out which of THEM are Oo as well.
Rinda, he has good size and shape. I know the color is correct, but honestly I prefer tbe birds with a little color (don't let the folks on tbe threads know, not interested in WW III!)
LOL I like a little color, too. Not a lot though. He is developing some color but the bright sunlight washes it out in the photo. He's still got a lot of time to grow, too. Hubby agreed I could run a second pen of Cream Legbars next year so I will have Rees line and my old line both. But really I have to sort out the egg color problem before I can do anything else.
Interesting note- since I switched boys I'm not hatching recessive whites anymore. So my new boys are clean for the white gene. I did save a white rooster out of my last batch that had whites. AFTER I fix the egg color problem I am going to breed each hen with him and eliminate recessive white from my flock. That will be an easy test- I will know at hatch (as long as I basket hatch) which hen is a recessive carrier.
Haha! He is very unique looking even for his breed. The UK standard says "some chestnut permissible" on the shoulders so it's totally up to personal interpretation. The UK breeds for as white as they can get them which IMO is part of why their hens have such pale salmon on their chests instead of the darker salmon of the US birds. They should not have RED shoulders the way some of them do though. I'd say my old rooster had a really good balance of color. To ME this fits "some chestnut permissible."
His worse fault I didn't discover until I bred him to his daughters- he's Oo for blue eggs.
So I sold him as dinner and brought in two NEW boys and have to test breed all my girls and figure out which of THEM are Oo as well.
ROFL!
LOL I like a little color, too. Not a lot though. He is developing some color but the bright sunlight washes it out in the photo. He's still got a lot of time to grow, too. Hubby agreed I could run a second pen of Cream Legbars next year so I will have Rees line and my old line both. But really I have to sort out the egg color problem before I can do anything else.
Interesting note- since I switched boys I'm not hatching recessive whites anymore. So my new boys are clean for the white gene. I did save a white rooster out of my last batch that had whites. AFTER I fix the egg color problem I am going to breed each hen with him and eliminate recessive white from my flock. That will be an easy test- I will know at hatch (as long as I basket hatch) which hen is a recessive carrier.
