I've been reading and following this thread for about a month now because up until I happened upon this forum a month ago, I didn't know about the tolbunt color. It intreges me! I'm not sure if I'm adventurous enough at this point to do a project of my own, but still think they are beautiful! Anyway, I keep reading people saying that they are having trouble finding quality golden laced birds. Is that because they only want VERY HIGH quality birds for a project? I always assumed that there were nice polish all over the US. It's made me severely jealous because I'm in Canada where not only are the polish rare, but the color types very few, and getting from US to here is like pulling teeth. So If I can find unrelated birds of any pure color (there are 7 that i know of) I jump at them.
Anyway, I had someone tell me that getting birds from here to US was fairly easy. If that's true, I have what I'd consider nice birds. Good lacing, and what I think is nice posture and look. My golden laced come from show birds about two gen ago (lady I got eggs from). When I can figure out how to put pictures on, I would like opinions of my birds.