Well, Fred, I'd prefer that, too, but I have nothing else. My goal was to try to breed back up to closer to the pure Stukel quality male that I started with, using what I have. Atlas is the only double barred male here, albeit the barring is not what I had with a pure Stukel male. Considering the heritage of the Delaware, as Scott mentioned once, he's really more than 3/4 BR, genetically. This was Bob Blosl's suggestion when I had the Delaware x BR double barred cockerel, Indy, working with what I had, to start back to the quality male I had with Rex #1. He told me to breed Indy to Rex #1's daughter, Dru, to get started. She would carry most of that original male's genes. Then, Indy was killed by his sire around 25 weeks of age and I was left with only the single barred Rex #2, Atlas's sire. I'd do better with Atlas, I believe because Atlas is superior to Indy, who, though a giant, was rather squirrel-tailed and did not have nearly the depth between the legs that Atlas has, in spite of his huge overall size. It was always odd to me that a bird who was that huge would have narrow-set legs.
