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

[DMRippy]

Quote: My cuckoos RARELY go broody. I think I have one that tries every year but she will give up in a few weeks..... I hope.

 

[estamets]

My cuckoos RARELY go broody.  I think I have one that tries every year but she will give up in a few weeks..... I hope.

Oh good! Are they good layers for you?

 

[DMRippy]

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Mine have been good layers.... the hens lay jumbo eggs too! But that can vary by lines.

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

Does anyone have a link to the APA scorecard, and are there different scorecards for different types?? I have the SOP for White Marans and Black Copper Marans, but would like to put that information in perspective with its importance to showing. The SOP for each variety with disqualifications and with the point value for each attribute down the list) would be AWESOME. Mahalo in advance!

 

[snowbird]

Does anyone have a link to the APA scorecard, and are there different scorecards for different types?? I have the SOP for White Marans and Black Copper Marans, but would like to put that information in perspective with its importance to showing. The SOP for each variety with disqualifications and with the point value for each attribute down the list) would be AWESOME. Mahalo in advance!

The best advice I can give is go to the front of the SOP and you will find all this in the first 40 or so pages. Don

Look on page #39 of the 2001 SOP.

 

[DMRippy]

@snowbird Would dark leg on a White be a DQ or Fault? The standard lists white/Pink but not a DQ for anything else.

 

[snowbird]

@snowbird Would dark leg on a White be a DQ or Fault? The standard lists white/Pink but not a DQ for anything else.

Donna, This would come under the DQ,s on page 34 of the 2001 SOP. States Shanks and toes, Foreign color to that described for breed and variety. Don

 

[DMRippy]

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I knew I had read something like that thanks! I will commit it to memory one day.

 

[3riverschick]

Hi,
I was reading this book again last night. One of my favs!
Laws governing the breeding of standard fowls. c.1
( with linebreeding chart)
By Card, Wetherell Henry. Published 1912
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.087299559;view=1up;seq=5
Anyway the author states that side springs show an indication of
rose comb blood. Don't the Pendescendas (sp?) have a rose comb?
Just wondering.
Best Success,
Karen

 

[DMRippy]

Hi,
I was reading this book again last night. One of my favs!
Laws governing the breeding of standard fowls. c.1
( with linebreeding chart)
By Card, Wetherell Henry. Published 1912
http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.087299559;view=1up;seq=5
Anyway the author states that side springs show an indication of
rose comb blood. Don't the Pendescendas (sp?) have a rose comb?
Just wondering.
Best Success,
Karen

Pretty sure they are carnation combs..... not rose.