Let's talk Cuckoo and WHITE marans... breeding strategies...

[OHmamma]

Ok so I just typed out an elaborate post with a bunch of pictures and hit the wrong button and lost the whole thing.

grrrrrrr.

I am giving the short version now.

The chicks came out between 10pm and 6 am. I did have a few stragglers follow the next two days. It always happens. I have found that bumping up the temp to 100.5* helps get more out on day 21.

Single bar roos are HOTT....I love em. I will post a pic of my blue one he is really cool.

Getting darker eggs is the goal for every color out there. Especially the cuckoo and whites. You can either find a bird form another line with darker eggs, breed to a true black or a silver birchen or consistently line breed I have done all three.

Wheaten or salmon or any of those to cuckoo re going to be considered Crele not golden cuckoo. Golden Cuckoo will be Black Copper x Cuckoo. Trust me I have that one from the source.

Here is a pic of a cuckoo chick his grandpa was a silver birchen. They come out with the cool stripes.




here is a gc hen from a BC line carrying recessive wheaten. I am going to try a Crele with her and my Golden Salmon.




here is my hard work paying off. My eggs won Best Overall at the WCOPC show last month 24 entries and they even beat the Coppers!!
My cuckoo are top left my blue coppers bottom right.




close up...





Now I am even sleepier!! I was cleaning the barn and brooders and setting up breeding pens all day. Raisin' chickens ain't for sissies!!

-Nicol

 

[stevodod]

I purchased a pair of Cuckoo Marans from a local breeder- from everything I see on the net they are legit and are a pullet and a cockerl. Thoughts? Are they true Cuckoo's or a mix? Do I have a male and female?

Thanks,

Steve N Tracee

 

[DMRippy]

I purchased a pair of Cuckoo Marans from a local breeder- from everything I see on the net they are legit and are a pullet and a cockerl. Thoughts? Are they true Cuckoo's or a mix? Do I have a male and female?

Thanks,

Steve N Tracee

pretty sure you have 2 roos. The darker one just has one copy of the barring gene. What color are the legs?

 

[wife2abirdman]

Oh so you can tell if they have only one barring gene. How so?

Is that for all barred birds or just Marans?

 

[DMRippy]

Oh so you can tell if they have only one barring gene. How so?

Is that for all barred birds or just Marans?

All barred birds. Roos will look WHITER and pullet blacker.... unless you have a roo with one copy then he will look blacker too. The double dose causes the barring to express MORE. Kinda like that second cup of coffee

 

[wife2abirdman]

Quote: could have sworn I replied to this but I will do it again!

I can't say on the coffee I drink my coffee almost a beige!! It's more cream than coffee

I thought it was the other way around I think I am going to have to jump for joy! If this is so I have 3 PULLETS and 2 cockerels!!

I was wondering why the "cockerels" were so much smaller than the "pullets"

I just chalked it up to cockerels being slower growing! I will now have to post a pic tomorrow to see which is which just to make sure.


OHbigmamma I LOOOOOVE those eggs so nice!

 

[pawtraitart]

Ok so I just typed out an elaborate post with a bunch of pictures and hit the wrong button and lost the whole thing.

grrrrrrr.

I am giving the short version now.

The chicks came out between 10pm and 6 am. I did have a few stragglers follow the next two days. It always happens. I have found that bumping up the temp to 100.5* helps get more out on day 21.

Single bar roos are HOTT....I love em. I will post a pic of my blue one he is really cool.

Getting darker eggs is the goal for every color out there. Especially the cuckoo and whites. You can either find a bird form another line with darker eggs, breed to a true black or a silver birchen or consistently line breed I have done all three.

Wheaten or salmon or any of those to cuckoo re going to be considered Crele not golden cuckoo. Golden Cuckoo will be Black Copper x Cuckoo. Trust me I have that one from the source.

Here is a pic of a cuckoo chick his grandpa was a silver birchen. They come out with the cool stripes.




here is a gc hen from a BC line carrying recessive wheaten. I am going to try a Crele with her and my Golden Salmon.




here is my hard work paying off. My eggs won Best Overall at the WCOPC show last month 24 entries and they even beat the Coppers!!
My cuckoo are top left my blue coppers bottom right.




close up...





Now I am even sleepier!! I was cleaning the barn and brooders and setting up breeding pens all day. Raisin' chickens ain't for sissies!!

-Nicol

Lovely dark eggs! I hope to get there at some point with my cuckoos. I'm working on bird size/conformation right now. Golden cuckoos are a new project for me. It's encouraging to see how line breeding can pay off. Excellent work, OHBigmamma. Thank you for sharing your photos.

Oh, and I second what you say about single barred roos. They are stunning to look at.

 

[wife2abirdman]

Ok someone needs to post a pic of a full grown single barred roo pic. I want to see!

 

[DMRippy]

Ok someone needs to post a pic of a full grown single barred roo pic. I want to see!

I don't have one of a cuckoo.... but they would be colored more like a pullet.

 

[pawtraitart]

Ok someone needs to post a pic of a full grown single barred roo pic. I want to see!

Golden cuckoo barring example out of my project pen.