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Quote: Lotsa: I am very partial to the golden cuckoos as well. I like barred birds in general. I am just getting started with the birchens but they sure do need a lot of work. I guess that's half the fun of it lol. It would be fun to make some blue-golden cuckoos...what would that be called...

That white feather seems to show up late.....mine has just one now that he's over a year old same with the silver guy just one and only a partial......I've culled all the others who had more and your bird could be his brother by the way except mine has a huge comb.....I haven't weighed him...

Well we're all posting at the same time I can't wait to see what all these chicks will look like grown and I am so hoping to get some good enough to show to me there is nothing prettier than that golden glow they have well I like the blues and the Birchens too...flgardengirl I want eggs that are...

Quote: You have a few too don't you? I like the BTB boy have you done any test hatching?

It's not easy to have egg color and type...those are very nice eggs too. My best hen is from Davis stock so I have offspring from her by 2 different cock birds who are both nice just not perfect so now I'm just waiting for them to lay and I have a son that has feathered shanks that I will be...

It's the cuckoo gene that turns the shanks white without it they would be slate....males normally don't have any dark showing but the girls will as they only have one cuckoo gene and the males have 2 (cuckoo is sex linked...) now I don't know if I helped you understand or just confused you more

Bev Davis was working on hers using the Salmon if I remember correctly. The GCMs I have look like they have wheaten or maybe btb but if it's wheaten the color is very dark on the hens which wouldn't be SOP so I don't really know but I am planning on using either mossy BCM or too dark Wheatens...

Quote: if the rooster has only one barring gene you can get a chick like what you hatched which is probably a pullet...and she might even get a copper necklace or a silver one you just never know..... If theis is the case would all the offspring from this rooster be black or just a few every...

Quote: The one red and brown chick looks very much like my Salmons I've hatched and looks like a rooster too....I find if mine don't look very brown they soon change as they are feathering out and there is a recessive clean legged gene that gives you clean legs from feathered stock I wouldn't...

Quote: if the rooster has only one barring gene you can get a chick like what you hatched which is probably a pullet...and she might even get a copper necklace or a silver one you just never know.....

It's cheaper to ship chicks than to try and hatch in most cases..congrats and you know we need pictures when you get them

The more you hatch them the better you can tell....I can tell pretty easy with mine and I am not using any single copy males or crossing to a black girl. Boys have 2 copies that's why they are lighter but sometimes you will use a single copy rooster so his color looks like a hen. I have tried...

Quote: They look like Marans to me you never know what color that egg is going to be until she lays I had one hatchery girl who laid a nice egg out of 24 not bad

I have 4 hens 2 lay dark eggs 2 lay 4's one of the dark egg layers has feathered shanks the others are all clean my rooster and 2 hens that lay the lighter eggs came from a friend of Geebs they have the prettiest color and the rooster is huge the other hens are darker came from a seller on Ebay...

From this to this So this weekend I switched roosters in my Golden pen to the back up Silver Cuckoo he has a name finally Froggy.....he came out of a darker egg than my Golden guy who is a lazy breeder so he's gone a diet vacation and I'll see what I get from Froggy before I put him...

Quote: Sending you good hatching vibes my Golden Rooster is a lazy boy I'm going to change him out with a Silver Cuckoo out of a 7 egg and see if the hens that are laying the dark eggs will have more fertility with him only thing is he might be carrying recessive white but he's a big ole...

Quote: Blue Tailed Buff wow don't tell Pink....Hen Tymes you would want to use Salmon, Black Tailed Buff , Black Copper or Wheaten for Golden's. Black would be for Silver Cuckoos and true black is hard to find very rare.....I would like some Silver Salmons those are beautiful only problem is...

Quote: I wanted to get a REALLY GOOD REALLY GOLD roo and put him over some black copper hens that lay super dark. Is this what other people are doing? Or it this what will bring wheaten genes into play? I have the most amazing dark eggs due on Monday First time ever seeing such nice...

HappyMtn that one is a boy the girls are darker and not as brown I don't think yours are very pure Cuckoos getting the red ones and all but still fun to raise up let me run outside and get some pictures of both sexes together. The brown ones come from crossing the BC's in with them and should be...

I've been hatching my Golden Cuckoos and have finally gotten some chicks with feathered shanks not many though but I'm going to get a feathered shanked Rooster from Harris5 so maybe that will help I have 2 hens that lay these the oldest chicks are in the dinosaur stage....what a project because...