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

[Goose and Fig]

If you cross with the cochin- you will probably get feet that aren't completely feathered. I hatched a bunch of cochin x Jap chicks and they are all "booted"- more like a d'uccle than a cochin.

I'd think that the cuckoo x RIR would give you sex-links. But that might only be if their gender was flip-flopped.

 

[catwalk]

What you're planning on doing sounds like a horrible idea! It'll never work. I'll take that ol' banty hen off your hands, and you can forget about the whole thing, deal?

 

[blackdotte]

Lav male over Cuckoo hen will produce Cuckoo males & Black pullets, all carrying Lav
David

 

[Krys109uk]

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?

No....the genes for breeds are not all inherited together en masse. If the offspring is barred (cuckoo), small & feather legged it will not make it a cochin.​

 

[onthespot]

I have not worked on a project that long, but I am thinking it might take you four or five generations to get a sort of "more cochin than not" variety going. I have been working on my Barred Bearded Olive eggers now for three generations and they are FAR from looking like an actual Ameraucana, leg color aside. They still look like mutts with beards and pea combs and varying amounts of barring. That's without throwing in Lavender. I do have a couple of blues in there, but that is easier to work around because you know you have it if you can see it.
The start, probably barred rock x ameraucana

From that hen, crossed on marans, I saved out a roo that had a single barring gene and three black pullets, pea combed and one was bearded.

Some had single combs, some pea combs

Some of those were crossed on a blue marans, most were crossed on the single barred EE roo.
These are F3. Still some single combs. There were a lot of non-barred chicks, which I did not choose to continue on with.

 

[Wokawidget]

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I wasn't planning on doing anything...in fact, I wasn't planning on having a Cuckoo Marans roo (
The other week I was just thinking that since I did have a roo what could I do with him...mating is obviously high on his agenda.
But tbh, it looks like we may hand him back to the farm, it's 15 weeks now, and not started crowing...but he will, and some of our neighbours have already shown themselves to be muppets

Hand Chicken (the Bantam Cochin) ain't going anywhere...you'll have to prize her friendly, tame, loveably ball of fluffiness from my dead hands

Woka