All colour cuckoo -

PLwarped59

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I am a fan of cuckoo. I want to know all the possible combinations of cuckoo that exist, or might be possible.
The ones I know of:

Black cuckoo
Red cuckoo
Isabella cuckoo
Lavender/Self Blue cuckoo
Chocolate cuckoo
Silver Columbian cuckoo
Candy Corn (gold laced x black cuckoo) I know it doesn't breed true.
Lemon cuckoo, now this one, in some breeds is buff cuckoo, in others the Ig gene is used. Should they be a different thing? I think so.
Blue cuckoo
Silver cuckoo
Gold cuckoo

Are there any more? I assume mauve cuckoo is a thing, though I have never seen any.
Are there any combinations that could be made that haven't yet?
 
Candy corn does breed true, as far as I’m aware. It’s pure gold laced with barring (aka cuckoo). So gold laced cuckoo. There’s cream gold duckwing cuckoo (as in cream legbars) and mottled gold duckwing cuckoo (55 flowery leghorns). Those are ones that are established varieties. The cuckoo/barring gene can be added to any pattern. Some others that I can think of (not established varieties) are black/blue mottled cuckoo, quail cuckoo, dun/khaki cuckoo, red pyle cuckoo, barred mottled gold laced cuckoo, etc. @The Moonshiner breeds a lot of unrecognized varieties of leghorns, many involving cuckoo.

Self buff cuckoo and buff columbian cuckoo (both usually referred to as lemon cuckoo) are different genetically. They are usually called the same name despite that.
 
You can add barring to anything that isn’t white. So yeah, there are a lot of cuckoos that haven’t been created yet. I have seen wheaten cuckoo, “golden cuckoo” (cuckoo on a gold base with leakage), crele, “cream Legbar”, Candy Corn actually does breed true btw. I’m not sure what gold cuckoo is. There is also partridge cuckoo which is often known as “crele” but it has a partridge base.
 

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