Hatching Orpington Lemon Cuckoo

[ChickenGen]

I have a black Orpington cuckoo rooster and he's in with my Buff Orpingtons to make lemon cuckoo. This is the way, right?

Anyway, the chicks are hatching this morning and they are coming out blackish/grey. I was expecting buff puffballs. Are they coming out black cuckoo? Could they be solid black?

This is the info I found.
Taking a barred male with one barring gene and crossing it to a solid coloured female will produce 25% barred males with one barring gene and 25% barred females. The remaining 50% of the birds will be of a solid colour.

When they mean 50% solid colour could it be rooster and hen based? As the solid original colour for the rooster would be black?

I'm very confused this morning.

Thank you for your help

 

[EggSighted4Life]

I have a black Orpington cuckoo rooster and he's in with my Buff Orpingtons to make lemon cuckoo. This is the way, right?

Anyway, the chicks are hatching this morning and they are coming out blackish/grey. I was expecting buff puffballs. Are they coming out black cuckoo? Could they be solid black?

This is the info I found.
Taking a barred male with one barring gene and crossing it to a solid coloured female will produce 25% barred males with one barring gene and 25% barred females. The remaining 50% of the birds will be of a solid colour.

When they mean 50% solid colour could it be rooster and hen based? As the solid original colour for the rooster would be black?

I'm very confused this morning.

Thank you for your help

Hi, welcome to BYC!

Black cross buff equals barnyard mix color regardless of breed is my understanding. Depending on which color is the dominant gene between the two is what color you will get when crossed. But I have found it to be a combo of the two. IMO if you want to breed the cuckoo in they should be the same base color. BUT I am here to learn also and this whole genetic thing is definitely a current point of interest for me! What I wonder is how do you now if your male has only one barring gene or two?

One thing I do KNOW about barring is this... Using a barred mother to a solid father will sex link all the chicks, males having a white spot on the head and eventually bars. Females remaining solid in color from hatch to death.

I don't have a link, but if you've heard of a punnit square, that can give you predicted outcomes of the different traits. I think it has programmed in what is dominant and such. Try searching for an easy to use/understand one.

I don't think I really answered you question, but thank you for sharing this opportunity to learn something with me!

Pics??

 

[ChickenGen]

I was under the impression that if I mixed a black cuckoo with another solid colour it would give me a cuckoo of that colour. Someone had explained it to me that way. Maybe the person was wrong.
They almost look chocolate to me but it's from my buff pen. Two have a white dot on the head.

This is the best I could get

This is the rooster that's in with my buff girls.

Thanks for the info

 

[UThobbyfarmer]

Check out this thread. Might answer your question..or give you more

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/lemon-cuckoo-orpington-questions.681721/