jerryse: thanks for the idea about the autosexing. i hadn't thought of that. i wonder if it will be like cream legbar autosexing? my line of barred ee's does look very much like cream legbars. in fact, one of the hens has white earlobes, who knows, I could have some leghorn in the mix, you never know!
niclandia: i gave the roo "young goldie" (1/4 cuckoo x 3/4 amer) to my friend and she set him loose with her hens of various breeds, mostly amers.
it was a lucky move because most of my chicks this year were eaten by predators, including all his sisters and his mother.
anyways, my friend ended up with chick overload and gave me back 3 barred cockerels and 5 pullets. 2 pullets were not barred and look like normal amers. 3 were barred. of the barred ones... 2 look like amers. but...
it appears that young goldie hooked up with a red hen--one of the barred pullets is red all over. very cute!
so she is a tiny bit cuckoo, a little bit more amer, and 1/2 red.
i've take some pics, going to try to load them but i haven't done it before.
don't know if i got one of her, i was focusing on the roos.
