My French Marans Rooster coloring, Golden Cuckoo? With Marans breeding question as well.

[Sussmarolle]

I am just curious … My sweet French Marans Roo named Wednesday is 5 months old. At first I thought his coloring was just the regular cuckoo but as he is getting older he is getting tinted copper and golden cuckoo feathering along with some blue green flecks throughout. Is his coloring considered Golden Cuckoo? Also, if I were to hatch some of the eggs from say my Black Marans and Blue Copper Marans hens, all of his offspring would get his same coloring correct? My understanding from what I have read is the Cuckoo coloring trumps all and will be the dominant coloring?

 

[nuthatched]

He's a cuckoo but with red leakage, maybe poor breeding or mixed variety a few generations back. Most healthy birds with black on them will have green feathers. I think the daughters would be barred I'd you hatched eggs but I'm not sure.

 

[nicalandia]

I am just curious … My sweet French Marans Roo named Wednesday is 5 months old. At first I thought his coloring was just the regular cuckoo but as he is getting older he is getting tinted copper and golden cuckoo feathering along with some blue green flecks throughout. Is his coloring considered Golden Cuckoo? Also, if I were to hatch some of the eggs from say my Black Marans and Blue Copper Marans hens, all of his offspring would get his same coloring correct? My understanding from what I have read is the Cuckoo coloring trumps all and will be the dominant coloring?

That rooster has only one copy of the barring mutation and one copy of the Extended black mutation.

He is likely the result of a cross between Cuckoo and Wheaten. So he is likely E/eWh and B/b+

 

[Sussmarolle]

That rooster has only one copy of the barring mutation and one copy of the Extended black mutation.

He is likely the result of a cross between Cuckoo and Wheaten. So he is likely E/eWh and B/b+

Thank you, that makes sense! When I bought him and his sister I was told they were both Copper Marans however, he is cuckoo and she is all black. I am very new at this so I don’t understand all of the “E/eWh and B/b+“ yet lol. Trying

So if he only has 1 copy of the barring gene there is potential that he would not pass the barring gene down to all of his offspring?

I am sorry for my ignorance ahead of time. Now you have peaked my curiosity even more and I am sure this question could lead down a rabbit hole but how can you tell he has only 1 copy of the barring gene?

 

[nicalandia]

Thank you, that makes sense! When I bought him and his sister I was told they were both Copper Marans however, he is cuckoo and she is all black. I am very new at this so I don’t understand all of the “E/eWh and B/b+“ yet lol. Trying

So if he only has 1 copy of the barring gene there is potential that he would not pass the barring gene down to all of his offspring?

I am sorry for my ignorance ahead of time. Now you have peaked my curiosity even more and I am sure this question could lead down a rabbit hole but how can you tell he has only 1 copy of the barring gene?

With that info I can speculate more about his sire and dame.

Sire(Father) is a Wheaten Maran and Dame(Mother) is a Cuckoo Maran. This produced a sex linked cross. Sister is black and He is Single Barred(only one copy of sex linked barring, inherited from dame).

He has 50% chance of passing his Only copy of barring to his offspring

 

[Sussmarolle]

With that info I can speculate more about his sire and dame.

Sire(Father) is a Wheaten Maran and Dame(Mother) is a Cuckoo Maran. This produced a sex linked cross. Sister is black and He is Single Barred(only one copy of sex linked barring, inherited from dame).

He has 50% chance of passing his Only copy of barring to his offspring

Thank you so much for explaining, it makes perfect sense to me now!