show casing the 2014 collection of young toulouse
below, 26 day old toulouse, colour grey.
as we've mentioned elsewhere on byp, these guys give you a short preview of what you might get straight out of the shell,
and at around the 2-4 week mark start developing the required features of the breed.
i did snap a couple pics of this next bird at just over 2 weeks old clearly showing the keel, but didn''t post them here.
not to worry as here is the bird at 26 days old.
dual lobes,a keel and a dewlap, and the bird is big!!
look closely and you should be able to spot the start of the 3 mentioned features

same bird as above but from side on, clearly showing a bulge and fold of skin under the chin,,this is the dewlap starting to grow.
bird is also starting to get a nice heavy eye brow

below is another young bird, slightly younger at 23 days old, from a different pairing and like the bird above clearly showing that the bird has the start of a nice dewlap

these are now our bench mark birds, and show the most development of anything we've hatched at such a young age,
this demonstrates that our selection process and understanding of the birds is becoming first class
how these young stack up against some of the quality toulouse that are about, when they were at the same age we just dont know
but we are of the opinion that if your trying to breed toulouse, and your young aren't at a similar stage of development at the same age your just not in the game
we'll update this topic as they grow, and when i find the time to post the pics.
every time we post pics of our birds here and else where we get flooded with inquiries and orders.
i'll take this opportunity to say, please dont waste your time with requests of purchasing such birds.
none of the toulouse from the 2014 hatch will be sold any time soon and if you require quality stock we'd suggest contacting
http://peelridge.webs.com/happy to discus all aspects of the breed and breeding, either here or through over means,,,,cheers
