EE/Lemon Cuckoo Orpington Chicks

[babowman3]

Has anyone every crossed an EE rooster with a Lemon Cuckoo Orp hen? I have some chicks of this breed, their coloring is soooooo pretty. I can't wait till they are older. The lady crossed this to hopefully get a greenish egg. The rooster came from a long line of blue eggs with slate blue legs and the Orps lay a creamy egg-so she says a greenish egg is hopefully in the mix. I'm just hoping I have at least one hen out of 4. If tail feather sexing is right, I only have one hen. There's one chick that has a lot of tail feathers (2 weeks old) the other 3 don't have any...

 

[donrae]

You should have green eggs easily. I don't know if the chick's down color would have made this visible, but I believe that would be a sex link mix, and the chicks with a white spot on the head would be male, inheriting the cuckoo pattern from momma.

 

[babowman3]

Hmm. I don't have any with a white spot. One has a black spot. Here's the babies. They are all colored so different. I can't wait to see what they look like as adults!