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Ahhhh,
The new run is complete, and the Barred Rocks like me for a few minutes anyway.
PM's sent to those that expressed interest.
Melissa,
The chick color you show in your photos is pretty much what we are seeing, with a Silver Cuckoo chick or two mixed in. We have about 60 on the ground right now, and of those we have two that hatched out cream colored like a wheaten, no dark, almost looks like a white chick. We also have two that must be designer chicks, real odd colors.
Anyway, one has grown its juvenile feathers, and it is exhibiting what looks like a yellow cuckoo with a few dark tail feathers. We wont use him to breed GCM's from, although we might keep him around for an experiment.
We would be interested in trading stock.
I will shoot you an email later with some photos, and pull from your experience.
As far as difficulty in stablizing the breed, it is only genetics, right?
We just need to work through it. It might take several hundred birds and several generations, but I kind of like a good challenge.
Don
The new run is complete, and the Barred Rocks like me for a few minutes anyway.
PM's sent to those that expressed interest.
Melissa,
The chick color you show in your photos is pretty much what we are seeing, with a Silver Cuckoo chick or two mixed in. We have about 60 on the ground right now, and of those we have two that hatched out cream colored like a wheaten, no dark, almost looks like a white chick. We also have two that must be designer chicks, real odd colors.
Anyway, one has grown its juvenile feathers, and it is exhibiting what looks like a yellow cuckoo with a few dark tail feathers. We wont use him to breed GCM's from, although we might keep him around for an experiment.
We would be interested in trading stock.
I will shoot you an email later with some photos, and pull from your experience.
As far as difficulty in stablizing the breed, it is only genetics, right?
We just need to work through it. It might take several hundred birds and several generations, but I kind of like a good challenge.
Don