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Jen Mitchell:
I would much appreciate some opinions on what may or may not be worth working with in these birds... I had been working in the past with an old line and while I occasionally pulled out a nice one here and there, I finally decided to cull due to issues I just couldn't clear out... I got an opportunity at a group of self blues from a breeder and grew those out this summer, while on the side I had picked up an old self blue cock bird on a whim... I put him over a black split hen and hatched out several of those chicks and grew them out...

After growing out the batch of self blues, I just wasn't happy with them at all... I kept a single pair but have decided I really don't want to use them...

That leaves me with the offspring of the old cock and the young hen... both were carrying recessive white as well and they threw self blues, blacks, whites and some off whites... I culled the off whites, sent the only white cockerel off to someone that wanted him for a project and have these left...

My question is not whether they are show material or even great quality, just if they are worth moving forward with or whether I should relegate them to a pretty EE pen...

Please excuse the dirt and mud, I was trying to wait for clear weather but we keep getting rain, sleet, freeze then thaw, lol...

Thank you for looking...

Jen Mitchell:
Black cockerel

Jen Mitchell:
White pullets

Jen Mitchell:
Black pullets

Don:
Jen,  Its hard to get the best pictures and hard to know for sure without seeing them in person.  I like the Self Blue pullets most.  They seem to have a very different body type than the others.  The color looks even, but you can tell more about that in person.  The pictures make the eye color look dark?  I do like the darker leg color.  Make sure that they don't develop too much fluff on the rear and just in general.  They are intended to have a fairly tight feather set.  And select for a good defined three part muff and beard.  Some pics show a tail angle a bit low.  Which male would you use with this female?

I know some breeders that prefer to use Blue to cross into the SB rather than a Black.  They like that the Blues are silver based (S).  Most good black lines carry gold (s).  Self Blues that carry (s) will sometimes show straw colored leakage in the males.  The whites can come out of any variety if both are carriers. 

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