Braindead, my plan is to breed for the perfet bird with a couple outcrosses. I plan to have 3 lines going, the pure line that I keep as a pure base line.
Line 2 will be production aimed, I plan to outcross to some good egg layers to try for early egg production and lots of eggs like they were known to be in the past.
Line3 will be aimed at improving the type. Most of the birds I have seen don't have an attractive body type to me, they look feral and just not appealing to my eye. I want more of a nice sweep to the tail, a good neck, a deep body overall. This is more for myself because as they say, if you don't like it, it wont keep your interest.
In a couple years I plan to cross lines 2 & 3 to get a bird that looks good in my eye and has great early production. Ideally, I will keep the pure birds seperate from the 'made' birds but I might use some of the pure birds in the home made birds from time to time. I will strive for a nice pure blue egg, any green egg laying birds I will probably cull, just because the breed is known to lay blue eggs, not green.
Just an update on my chicks, Ingrid is now about double the size of Frederick and Priscilla. She is also the only one with any sign of a crest. A good way to compare them is like comparing a show type wyandotte with a hatchery white leghorn in size. Frederick's comb is also turning red already. I will try to get a picture of them this week using my actual camera instead of my cell phone.
