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

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Yes egg color is my focus too! I bred some BC into my rooster I am using this year. The hens I have him over are laying pretty solid 5's so looking forward to see this years pullet eggs.
 
The solid pullets I have put in the pen are laying NICE dark eggs. Much darker than my cuckoos. I am throwing them ALL in the bator right now. Of course I will not know for sure till they start laying but I have NO doubt this is going to darken the eggs. I will use some single barred cockerels over my cuckoo hens and see if using a darker egg cockerel will help too. Getting SOLID birds took me a year! LOL
 
Raven1 said:
Sorry I have Golden Cuckoo's. DRippy knows that I guess I forgot I was public. I am looking forward to egg color this year. OOPS
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Yes I knew that..... I was just thinking you were doing PARALLEL kinda breeding and didn't say anything.

I am so excited over the egg color..... I am tempted to put the other pullets I have in that pen even though they have some silver in the hackles. I was trying to avoid the birchen look in the cuckoos but the egg color might be worth a try. I have about 45 eggs going in the bator tomorrow. Some are reg cuckoos but most are from the new girls........ fingers crossed for fertility! That roos is a busy boy if they are fertile LOL.
 
Raven1 said:
Do you still have any birds with my original bloodlines? Your Blue Cuckoo started from my Splash Roo right?
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Let me think how that worked..... I had your Splash and I also bought 3 or 4 Blue hens. I think I sold the girls last summer to my neighbor (I could get them back if I wanted but I think they are getting too old for viable eggs) So yes they mostly came from you, I think I had some other cuckoos.... reg cuckoos but I can't remember where they came from. I needed to add feathered legs.... I did that but don't remember were I got the feathered legs from..... my current roo I hatched pretty early in my quest for feathered legs. NOW we are on egg color..... took long enough LOL. I might work on solid blue and black marans. I like projects LOL


There are some breeds that hubby will not let me let go of.... cuckoos are one of them because I have worked too hard to get them up to par.
 
DMRippy said:
Let me think how that worked..... I had your Splash and I also bought 3 or 4 Blue hens. I think I sold the girls last summer to my neighbor (I could get them back if I wanted but I think they are getting too old for viable eggs) So yes they mostly came from you, I think I had some other cuckoos.... reg cuckoos but I can't remember where they came from. I needed to add feathered legs.... I did that but don't remember were I got the feathered legs from..... my current roo I hatched pretty early in my quest for feathered legs. NOW we are on egg color..... took long enough LOL. I might work on solid blue and black marans. I like projects LOL


There are some breeds that hubby will not let me let go of.... cuckoos are one of them because I have worked too hard to get them up to par.
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I think you got the feather legged cuckoos from me, 2 yrs ago ?
About that time.
 

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