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John:

--- Quote ---I am still using blacks to improve my lavenders,
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That is a good idea and something that should always be available to us.
Congratulations on the improvements you\'ve made.  The lavender cock, in the photo, looks extra fluffy and reducing that fluff in his offspring will give you more to work on.

crystalcreek:
He did carry excess fluff, especially as a young cockerel.  Here is a picture of him after he was a year old.  Eliminating excess fluff is not the only battle--low wingset, sloppy tails, messy combs, fretting,  slow feather, gold leakage, poor egg color,  feathered shanks.  You name it, we\'ve had it.

He nicked well on the Smith pure black hens I had and the offspring they produced were very nice.  I no longer have those hens because I lost several adult birds this past summer during the epic drought and heat wave of the century here in Texas.  If I had them, this pen B cockerel would be in with them instead of their daughters.   I do have some chicks ordered from Paul to replace them.  My gameplan is to go back to pure black with the offspring produced this year by the pen B cockerel and the Smith split females.

After reading this, I realize that it might be a bit confusing so I wanted to clarify--Pen B had the lavender cock (the one we\'re describing as having excess fluff) in it in the 2011 breeding season with pure black Smith hens.  For the 2012 breeding season, I took females produced by that cross in 2011 and added the young lavender cockerel who is producing fast feather.  Hope that clears things up a bit.

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