Barred Wheatens? Anyone have pictures?

[chasehope]

My golden Cuckoos lay pretty dark eggs. Not as dark as a black copper, but pretty dark. I dont have a cuckoo to compare them to though. I will try to get some egg pictures.

 

[Phage]

I had a wheaten maran roo visiting my maran/OE coop. I hatched some eggs and kept one hen chick from either the cuckoo maran or possibly the golden cuckoo maran (I think it was the cuckoo). The resulting chick is dark with orange flecks throughout.

Interestingly the splash maran / wheaten Maran cross is a nice buff hen.

I gave away the OE (a white bird) x WM chicks to a friend but will check what they look like. The chicks were chipmunk.

 

[Lotsapaints]

My Silvers are darker lucky if the Goldens are a 5

 

[flgardengirl]

Some of the golden cuckoos can hatch out almost wheaten color and barely have the cuckoo spot on thier heads. I have a male golden cuckoo that hatched out almost completely yellow and had a very light biege spot on his head. He is still light colored for a golden cuckoo. I don't know whether or not he has a wheaten gene mixed in way back in the lineage somewhere but it is always possible lol.
Here are some photos of him as a chick and one as a juvenile. I still have him I need to get some new photos. His barring is really defined now even though it is light.

Light Golden Cuckoo Marans (left) next to a Wheaten Marans chick (right)

Here he is when he is a little older--don't mind his lack of tailfeathers they were plucked by a naughty feather eating orp girl I had in with him then. He has nice ones now.

 

[BeardedLadyFarm]

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Oooh, he's handsome! Do you own the parents that throw the wheaten-y chicks? I'd be very interested in eggs if you do. How's the egg color?

 

[flgardengirl]

No but I can tell you who I got him from

I will send you a message.