cuckoo brahmas

[John Ryan]

im gonna try to make cuckoo brahmas, so id really appreciate advice from experienced breeders how i should go about it. i know colour comes from the cock and body type from the mother but thats about it.....
i already have a maran x brahma cross cock, brahma body and maran colour and i want to breed more of him

any help that experienced breeders can give me is appreciated

 

[nicalandia]

im gonna try to make cuckoo brahmas, so id really appreciate advice from experienced breeders how i should go about it. i know colour comes from the cock and body type from the mother but thats about it.....
i already have a maran x brahma cross cock, brahma body and maran colour and i want to breed more of him

any help that experienced breeders can give me is appreciated
Thats easy... just cross that rooster back to brahmas.... take the best offsprings(that look cuckoo, black barred) and cross it yet again to brahmas.. repeat untill you believe you have a cuckoo breed that looks just like a brahma, once you are there all you have to do is cross siblings(cuckoo male x cukoo hen)

 

[John Ryan]

once you are there all you have to do is cross siblings(cuckoo male x cukoo hen)

thanx for the advice nic, however, i thought u werent supposed to mate siblings, i was told go no closer than father to daughter and mother to son but never brother to sister. can u explain why the sibling mating please {ill never learn if i dont ask}

 

[nicalandia]

thanx for the advice nic, however, i thought u werent supposed to mate siblings, i was told go no closer than father to daughter and mother to son but never brother to sister. can u explain why the sibling mating please {ill never learn if i dont ask}

sibling mating is not bad at all, many breeders do it when they have 2 exceptional birds, but in your case the sibling mating will be because at this stage your cuckoo roosters will be heterozygous for the sex linked barring gene, and when mated to a none barred hen you will produce 50% barred chicks(males and females) and 50% none barred males... but I dont know thats really up to you, you see heterozygous barring can also look good...

 

[nurse_turtle]

I have this boy who came from a Dominique roo over a light brahma mama. (I think). This is Booger and he is HUGE.

 

[Mr MKK FARMS]

Wow that is one big rooster!

 

[John Ryan]

I have this boy who came from a Dominique roo over a light brahma mama. (I think). This is Booger and he is HUGE.

oooooooooooohhhh i gotta have some eggs with his genes, what colour brahma hen are you pairing him with??

 

[John Ryan]

im on a nokia n8 smartfone and cant figure out how to post a pic

 

[burtonjon]

Here's a pair of newly imported Cuckoo Brahma.

 

[John Ryan]

very nice, nice young birds too, combs still developing... ummm... think ill get eggs from u instead lol

heres a pic or two of my cuckoo brahma roo









hes as big as my gander (thats him in the middle of the pic with the grey on his back)





got two black brahma hens and two silver (dark as you americans call them ) brahma hens, one of which is badly marked but i dont mind as its the fathers colouring im after. penned the blacks and silvers in different coops so i can see what results from from each crossing.