B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

[RedBugPoultry]

I'm going to keep multiple cockerels this year. There are three, plus the older guy, that have traits that I would like in my flock. None of them have all the things that I need in one bird. I usually only keep two cock birds, but I just can't choose between these guys. I'll just need more pens.

I recently read about prepotent sires. I had not heard of this before. From what I could understand, you don't know - until you breed them and see what they produce. This is another reason that I'm going to keep more than two, this year.


Redbug, I assumed that you got your answer in April's post. I was told to choose birds that are wider between the legs, which allows plenty of room for the organs etc.

Chickhick, I don't personally know any breeders of CD. You can join the Club and get the breeder's directory.

No, I had not gotten an answer but thank you that does make since. I am really loving my red dorkings. I have decided to keep all my dorkings and watch how they develop through the winter. Two girls have started laying!

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

Ok who has Cuckoo Dorking's and does any one know if the ones that are around are straight comb or rose???

thanks For the Help... Elias

 

[ki4got]

Ok who has Cuckoo Dorking's and does any one know if the ones that are around are straight comb or rose???

thanks For the Help... Elias

the only place i've seen cuckoo is sandhill preservation center. no idea sc or rc tho.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

thanks i forgot about them...

the only place i've seen cuckoo is sandhill preservation center. no idea sc or rc tho.

 

[Jwhip]

I would make your own. Get a Silver grey male cross with a white female half should be cuckoo. I'm working on whites dorkings and hatched a few cuckoo birds. Just sold the females and male I had that were cuckoo.

 

[ki4got]

I would make your own. Get a Silver grey male cross with a white female half should be cuckoo. I'm working on whites dorkings and hatched a few cuckoo birds. Just sold the females and male I had that were cuckoo.

that would depend if the white line carried the barred gene... but personally i'd use black and barred (once ypou have a barred dorking that is).

 

[greenhorn]

that would depend if the white line carried the barred gene... but personally i'd use black and barred (once ypou have a barred dorking that is).

The bad thing about about using blacks would be finding some good black dorkings. We've been growing out SandHill blacks and Oh Boy do they ever need some work.

Maybe somebody else has some better blacks going on that I haven't heard about?

 

[capayvalleychick]

Get a Silver grey male cross with a white female half should be cuckoo. I'm working on whites dorkings and hatched a few cuckoo birds.

that would depend if the white line carried the barred gene...

I'm not someone who has ever been interested in color variety projects, but this got my attention. Sounds interesting.

Why would any Dorkings carry the barred gene? Is barring linked to White? Or did the Whites that threw Cuckoo have some other breed in their background?

 

[ki4got]

Quote: solid black would be the base color for a cuckoo/barred bird. otherwise you just have a barred version of whatever color comes thru.

as for type, not many dorking varieties are 'there' in regards to type so no matter what you use to create cuckoo, you're going to have a long haul to get the type going.

 

[Jwhip]

Cuckoo is a recognized variety in the Standard. I would like to know if your white female has no cuckoo gene and you breed her to a Silver Grey what would the offspring would look like?
I guess the whites I have carry the cuckoo gene. I think its interesting that a solid white male and a solid white female could produce cuckoo birds which happened to me.