Golden Cuckoo chicks from Raven1's eggs. The ones the broodies have are still hatching
I wish I could get the colors to show up better!
Let's talk Cuckoo and WHITE marans... breeding strategies...
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Yes it does look like you will have a couple that will be dark/not golden. I will set eggs from the new roo this Weds. so we will see how he does. Mine are growing very well and the type is great about 1/2 are feather legged, how did you do on feathered shanks?
They are good sized chicks! Looks like you have some pullets too! (big head spot roo, little spot pullet)
They are good sized chicks! Looks like you have some pullets too! (big head spot roo, little spot pullet)
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The ones in the house are split 3 and 3 for feathered shanks. I'm mostly concerned with plumage though, so that's fine. 2 of them are really bronze-ish with big head spots. Of all the other eggs GC I hatched, these really are the prettiest. I had some nice ones that looked like normal silver cuckoos from birdbrain5, but I lost most of them to cocci in that particular brooder. Fortunately I had given some to a broody so I still have a few from several sources
Most look like they'll be silver though so far.
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Sorry this resply is delayed. He is really nice looking, and tall too. I love his tail set. Do you have much of a problem with combs? I was surpirised at how many off ones come from decent combed parents. I have never really bred chickens for SOP before but the comb was always one of the details that to me were improtant in the ones I kept even for pets.
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Awe love baby chickies
they are beautiful happymtn
Awe love baby chickies
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Sorry this resply is delayed. He is really nice looking, and tall too. I love his tail set. Do you have much of a problem with combs? I was surpirised at how many off ones come from decent combed parents. I have never really bred chickens for SOP before but the comb was always one of the details that to me were improtant in the ones I kept even for pets.
In my BCM the combs are pretty solid. Sometimes I get 6 points, but never a nasty dinosaur crest like I get on some whites. Yeah, I'm a comb snob too. A bad comb kind of ruins an otherwise nice bird. That's probably why I like peacomb birds too because the combs not so hard to get decent. Here in Hungary lots of folks like mongrel chickens. They believe they are healthier and lay more eggs. I guess hybrid vigor is part of that. So I keep a mixed flock for folks who need help getting a flock started. I've given away over 100 hatching eggs to folks in the village here, and hatched out over 80 chicks for folks out here too. When I decide to keep a roo for my mixed flock I always look for a good comb. Sometimes it's the deciding factor if all other things are equal.
That white in the picture is Houdini. He's the only roo that ever escapes from the bachelor pad. There's 9 other roos in there, he's the only one with clipped wings, and he's still managed to squeeze out under the fencing.
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In my BCM the combs are pretty solid. Sometimes I get 6 points, but never a nasty dinosaur crest like I get on some whites. Yeah, I'm a comb snob too. A bad comb kind of ruins an otherwise nice bird. That's probably why I like peacomb birds too because the combs not so hard to get decent. Here in Hungary lots of folks like mongrel chickens. They believe they are healthier and lay more eggs. I guess hybrid vigor is part of that. So I keep a mixed flock for folks who need help getting a flock started. I've given away over 100 hatching eggs to folks in the village here, and hatched out over 80 chicks for folks out here too. When I decide to keep a roo for my mixed flock I always look for a good comb. Sometimes it's the deciding factor if all other things are equal.
That white in the picture is Houdini. He's the only roo that ever escapes from the bachelor pad. There's 9 other roos in there, he's the only one with clipped wings, and he's still managed to squeeze out under the fencing.
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Yeah, lots of Marans show evidence of Penedesenca - even in France and Australia. After I selected for the darkest egg layers within my flock, I was left with some that could just about have gone either way; mossy BCMs or a big-bottomed and feather-legged version of a Partridge Penedesenca.
Yeah, lots of Marans show evidence of Penedesenca - even in France and Australia. After I selected for the darkest egg layers within my flock, I was left with some that could just about have gone either way; mossy BCMs or a big-bottomed and feather-legged version of a Partridge Penedesenca.
Those are some cute babies Happy Mtn.
I am wanting to get some silver cuckoo eggs next. Since I like my golden cuckoos so much.
I hope I can find some silver cuckoo eggs from parents with feathered shanks and nice coloring.
I love that ghost barred cuckoo look, that's so cool !!!
I am wanting to get some silver cuckoo eggs next. Since I like my golden cuckoos so much.
I hope I can find some silver cuckoo eggs from parents with feathered shanks and nice coloring.
I love that ghost barred cuckoo look, that's so cool !!!
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My friend has the most awesome roosters out of his cuckoo and whites. I saw them for the first time today. They are just unreal. I want to get a picture to post. They almost look like whites but silvery with lavender saddle and hackles with a slight barring. I mean just beautiful!! I am going to go back soon and get a picture of them or talk him out of one.......
Not sure what I would do with another roo other than just eyecandy. He said they came form a crossing of Golden cuckoo,whites and blues, I forget the exact mix.
Big Medicine~ HI! You know I have found the same thing, the darker the egg the uglier the hen. mine are typey enough but the darkest layers seem to all be the ones with the worst coloring. Even their backs seem odd, almost humped at the tail base. I am trying to accomplish something by crossing them with a nice colored roo that is almost too black but with a good topline that came from an "8" egg but I guess only time will tell.
My cuckoos are still too young to determine or cull other than feather shanks,sprig free combs, and color of egg hatched from.
My friend has the most awesome roosters out of his cuckoo and whites. I saw them for the first time today. They are just unreal. I want to get a picture to post. They almost look like whites but silvery with lavender saddle and hackles with a slight barring. I mean just beautiful!! I am going to go back soon and get a picture of them or talk him out of one.......
Big Medicine~ HI! You know I have found the same thing, the darker the egg the uglier the hen. mine are typey enough but the darkest layers seem to all be the ones with the worst coloring. Even their backs seem odd, almost humped at the tail base. I am trying to accomplish something by crossing them with a nice colored roo that is almost too black but with a good topline that came from an "8" egg but I guess only time will tell.
My cuckoos are still too young to determine or cull other than feather shanks,sprig free combs, and color of egg hatched from.
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