Buff is a beautiful color, but perfection is hard to achieve, especially if one cannot start with perfect stock and uniformity of shade of color of the pen of birds is not logical, as a balance of different birds is needed to maintain the ideal shade. The chickens start off looking similar; however, as they change their feathers, the roosters become black reds, and the hen develops black lacing on a gold background, not complete until perhaps two years old. Even as chicks, this breed tends to be more aggressive than other chicks from other breeds, and you will notice this through their feather-pulling behavior when they are just a couple of days old. By the time they leave the brooder, they will have their pecking order sorted out.
To breed, so W. F. Entwistle says, the required triple laced hens look for your rooster when a chicken; s128 he will look like a pullet for the longest and have lacing. This bird may develop like a normal pullet breeding partridge rooster and must be marked at the earliest possible age if confused with his brothers. Partridge chickens look nothing like their parents, whereas the rooster is a different color from the hen. The cockerel breeding partridge pullet does not have well-defined lacing but must come from a line of cockerel breeders, and the rooster of the pullet breeding line does not conform to the show standard but must come from a pullet breeding line.
The partridge-bred black, red show bird is not the rooster who fathers you partridge hens; that is, he is not out of your pullet breeding line. Culling of chicks is something only the breeder who is very familiar with their particular line of the bird should do. Not only do chicks of different adult plumage differ or can be the same, but chicks of the same adult coloration can differ from one another because they are from a different line. Male a female chicks’ coloration may differ subtly. DEVILS ADVOCATE” IN SUPPORT OF “COCKFIGHTING”:- HAVING SUBMITTED A COMPLETE UNBIASED VIEW OF THE SPORT OF “BATTLECOCK FIGHTING,” I AM VERY MUCH IN FAVOUR OF THE SPORT NOT BEING “BANNED” IN COUNTRY’S WHERE IT ALREADY EXISTS AS A “LEGAL BLOODSPORT. ” ARE THE “BROILER CHICKENS” IN THE PHOTOGRAPHS LOOKING BETTER THAN THE “BATTLECOCK BIRDS, ” BOTH IN MAINTENANCE AND PLUMAGE? IS SLAUGHTERING OF “BROILER CHICKENS” CONFINED IN CLAUSTROPHOBIC CAGES LESS CRUEL THAN “BATTLECOCK CHICKENS,” WHICH FIGHT TO DEATH AFTER LIVING A WELL CARED ‘CHICKEN LIFE” OF AT LEAST A YEAR?