Golden Cuckoo Marans Eggs - WA State - The stories

[tgcole]

Gold Cuckoo pullet from Melissa (Pasofino):

Don and Melissa's Gold Cuckoo chicks among other Marans babies:

My only hope for a Gold Roo (from Don):

If you are looking for Gold Cuckoos, Pasofino and Nivtup both have EXCELLENT lines!

Greg

 

[pasofinofarm]

Gosh Greg if I had only known you needed one... we ate 30+ with some really nice birds... Is the little fellow kind of upright and 'drumsticky'? Body type is usualy my first clue even before comb development.

I have to get you a pic of yours tomorrow. WOW is all I can say. They are fully feathered and awsome looking and if the eggs are as good as the ones I hatched I am gonna be tickeled PINK!

Here is what your girl should look like when finished. Sorry for the blur...

 

[timbofarms]

They arevery pretty

 

[fowlrus]

Received the eggs today, great packing and beautiful looking eggs, nice color too. Thank you very much! will post how the hatching goes.

 

[nivtup]

Good luck on the hatching!

 

[fowlrus]

20 out of 25 candled fertile last night! Yipee!
14 more days, can't wait to see those golden babies hatch.

 

[chickenlisa]

got my eggs today too. They'll go the bator tonight. They're nice dark brown and I told a friend they looked like chocolate. She said "don't eat them!" I'd never b/c I want each and every one to turn in to a little chick and hatch in 3 weeks.

Thanks Don! I left FB on the feedback thread.
Lisa

 

[nivtup]

Some of the youngsters coming along:

Pullet, good feather color.

Cockeral, good feather coloring coming in.

Cockeral, one that hatched out in the wheaten coloration, feathering in as a yellow cuckoo? He has a few darker feathers in both wings and tail.
I will try for better pictures another day.

 

[chickenlisa]

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What are you using to candle these eggs? I've tried and they are so dark, I can't see anything. I can see very well in the other eggs though - (white, light brown, or tinted ones.) Any advice? I'd love to know what's going on in there...its end of day 7 tonight.
Lisa


edited to say: I just checked again and I did see what I think are veins in some (1/2?) of them...granted they are not clear and red looking like in the white eggs, but they do look spiderweb-like...and there was a dark little MOVING blob in 1 of them! YAY! Now if I see that in the others in 3 more days, I'll be ecstatic!

 

[gckiddhouse]

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"drumsticky", is that official chicken farming terminology, Melissa??

I will have to watch for drumsticky chicks when mine hatch!!