Lavender cuckoo easter egger

[faykokoWV]

should I use bird 1 in the lavender cuckoo project??

that one bird does have darker feet. I'm trying to decide if there any I should go ahead and cull now

 

[Goose and Fig]

No- I would keep him if you want to do a crele project though. I like the one with darker feet. I would keep any barred girls that seem type-y, and see how their egg color is.

 

[faykokoWV]

thanks for the advice, We have a sale coming up next weekend, so I think I'll take that one and sell it. What about the really light colored birds, should they go too?

 

[Goose and Fig]

I would grow the light ones that show decent barring out a bit more. As long as they have good combs and no yellow skin- you know.
My lav cuckoo roo looked like heck at that stage, but finished out quite nice.

Wish I was closer- I'd take the oddball in a second!

 

[faykokoWV]

yeah, if I had more space I'd be tempted to keep him, he looks like he's going to be a pretty roo

 

[Goose and Fig]

I had a broody hatch some babies today. I was really surprised that I got cuckoos because I had just taken the plain lav roo out a few days before I got these eggs.






They don't quite have their land legs yet!

 

[kraftyladies]

I'm and very new at all the genetics stuff... I need a chicken book "Chicken Genetics for "Dummies". I have some lav ameraucanas and would love to have a lavender cuckoo, what can I cross it with? Just a bird with a barring gene? I hope I don't sound stupid, but genetics really keep me stumped. I don't have anything that is barred, except some young Lemon Cuckoo orps. Would that combo work?

 

[Goose and Fig]

Go back to this page, and read what Boggy Bottom Bantams wrote: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/524659/lavender-cuckoo-easter-egger/10

Very valuable information if you are working with any color and cuckoo. When you are using lavender, you will have to introduce the lav gene as well as the cuckoo genes.

 

[jerryse]

Here are some chicks from my lav cuckoo project.Out of cuckoo hens and a lav rooster.One of the 2 hens is a lav split.One of the lav has a white head spot.A lav cuckoo cockerel.The hen hatched 13 out of 15 eggs.The head spots on the black ones are faint and hard to see.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Here are some chicks from my lav cuckoo project.Out of cuckoo hens and a lav rooster.One of the 2 hens is a lav split.One of the lav has a white head spot.A lav cuckoo cockerel.The hen hatched 13 out of 15 eggs.The head spots on the black ones are faint and hard to see.

Yay!