A few hens to get started

well i had obtained my two cock birds to founder my albino line and only needed to obtain two to 4 good hens to breed them with to get me off and running 
but the question was where was i going to find some worth while hens for the price i was willing to pay ??? 
the answer for me  was  ...the pet shop 
although i had brought a quality cinnamon sky spangle hen ring kc7 also a young 08 rung bird from the auction for a mere 30.00  she was not going to help me breeding albinos not the way i wanted to go about it 
so i wondered down to a local pet store where i knew a few well known show breeders off loaded their left over culls or trouble birds 
however i only needed to get a reasonable few hens and get one or two chicks from each and i was up and running 
their was in one of the shops a very nice sized albino hen  un rung she did not have the head quality's needed but had the body size i wanted to maintain so i brought her 27.50 
i named her Dave as she was so dopey  looking (from dad n Dave )
and i brought another cinnamon sky hen but this time not spangled  as their was nothing else i could get to put with my Grey boy i knew the risk was that i would end up with sky blue suffused albinos  and all cocks would be /cinnamon and  possibly albino but decided that i would just need to breed any hens to a Grey cock and cull all cock birds   so that's exactly what i did 
the result was one  blue suffusion albino hen of very good size and head quality's and 5 siblings 3 cocks sky blue and Grey  and 2 hens both blue and both cinnamon
so i kept the albino hen and moved the rest on
  this is her at 6 months

so getting back to my albino cock and the ugly  albino hen i brought for him 
they produced me 9 eggs 2 hatched first round but one chick had hip issues so was culled immediately
the second chick grew on to be reasonable albino cock  
however not as good as his dad but his stance and colour were very nice and as far as albinos go he was very very nice for variety besides i had to hold on to any albinos i breed regardless of size for now 

first ever hatched albino baby 09 September 

here he is still in nest feathering up

and here he is his first show
hes came first in variety beginners young albino cock twice now once in 010 and once in 011 

 and here is a few photos of the poor little one i had to put down you can see he had other issues as well as his leg his body was quiet odd shaped  strangely enough mum and dad fed him very well
 however his life would have not been much so i did what i felt was right he had no usage of his foot or leg
 it was hard ...and a disappointment for my first club rung chicks for the season he was also quiet large for a week old chick and i feel now Ive been breeding for a while he was maybe a feather duster as the bulb on his belly and rapid growth point this way his brother was half the size and their eyes were only just opening 

and here is mum and dad they went on to have one more clutch 4 out of 7 eggs hatched and 3 lived 1 passed at two days all that lived were hens 
all i have retained  for breeding 
mum was moved on just last year as she was going to pull me back with her head however i am thankful to her for three beautiful hens with great body size and colour to work on with
i still have dad and plan to use him latter this year