Cuckoo Marans Rooster crossed with Lavender Bantam Cochin...??

[Wokawidget]

Hi,

I think this is the right forum to post this in, if not then could someone point me in the right direction.

I have a cuckoo marans rooster and a lavender bantam cochin pullet...both are 3 months now.
I was wondering what would happen if the Marans mated with the Cochin and I allowed the cochin to get broody (I have heard they make great mums). What would the resulting chicken look like?

Would it me a bantam cuckoo cochin?
Or a Lavendar Marans?

I also have a RIR pullet...would this produce a red and white barred chicken?

Cheers,

Woka

 

[Krys109uk]

Crossing the cuckoo marans onto a lavender cochin would give black barred offspring colour wise. The offspring ought to have feathered legs.

Not sure which genes affecting size the bantam will be carrying, there are a few.
You might want to look at te size mutations on Kaz's Poultry Genetics for Exhibition Breeders
http://www.edelras.nl/chickengenetics/mutations2.html#gen_mut_dwarf

A cross between your cuckoo Marans & a RIR would give black barred offspring.

 

[Wokawidget]

Thanks for the reply.

A small fluffy feeted barred cochin you say...MINT!

Woka

 

[keystonepaul]

What would the black barred offspring bred to each other produce colorwise- black cuckoos with the lavander gene would produce..??
Thanks, Keystonepaul

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

I believe you would get some lavender barred birds by breeding the F1s together. However the barring would be pretty faint due to the light tint of lavender.

 

[Wokawidget]

So if I bred them for the 1st time could I expect soemthing like:

http://media.photobucket.com/image/barred cochin/FourHChickens/IMG_0531.jpg

The chickens in that pic look almost identical to my Marrans rooster and poulet...but slightly smaller with the cochin fluffyness
?

Cheers,

Woka

 

[Wokawidget]

Here's my Marrans and cochin:

Rooster:

Marrans Poulet:

Bantam Cochin Poulet:


Woka

 

[blackdotte]

Crossing them together would give a variety of sizes in Cuckoo,Lavender Cuckoo,Black & Lavender
David

 

[Wokawidget]

So from 1 egg, if I decide to hatch it, that's a 1 in 4 chance of getting chicks like in that url posted...bared, cuckoo, cochins?
From what you're saying some may be bantam, some medium, some large.
So I have a 1 in 12 chance of getting a bantam cuckoo cochin?

1 thing for sure...they will all be cochin fluffy with feathered feet?

Cheers,

Woka

 

[Wokawidget]

Hi,

If the Marrans was a pullet and the Cochin a roo...would the resulting chicks be the same as if the genders were the other way round?

Cheers,

Woka