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

[flgardengirl]

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There have been golden duckwings in the US for a very long time but the egg color wasn't very good. I crossed mine into the wheaten line to improve the egg color which it did after a few generations but now have some genes from the wheaten line that I am trying to breed out. We are also working on a silver duckwing line as well, both have brilliant egg color but they need work with the feathering. Some people call them silver and gold salmons.

Bev

Silver Blue Salmons =

Okay I get it now lol. I just had heard them called gold or silver salmons and not the duckwing part. I love the duckwing colorations. I have golden duckwing coloration on one of my key west roosters and a few hens and silver duckwing on some of my Phoenix roos and hens

I like being able to tell the girls from the boys fairly early on into feathering.

 

[Raven1]

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Boy she is pretty where did she come from?

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Boy she is pretty where did she come from?

Echoinghills? Something like that. I had 2, but just kept this one so I can see what kind of eggs she lays. She does have alot of salmon on her

 

[BevDavis]

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It would really help if you started breeding a line of golden duckwing. Select the chicks that have a line through the eye and have clear defined markings. If you want to start a crele line then you could do that as well, both are needed. If you need any help please let me know. In the lines that I am working on the golden duckwing have really good egg color but the couple of birds from the crele line that are laying aren't laying as dark an egg. When crossing two lines together very often the egg color is lost.

Bev

This is the father to the offspring, I also assumed he was a form of wheaton due to how he feathered out but after doing some further research today I don't think so as he was also born brown. He reminds me allot of your gold salmon.
He was about 6 months old here
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/49849_dsc05328.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/49849_dsc05333.jpg
This was him as a chick
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/49849_dsc04469.jpg

The above pullet and the additional chicks I have in the brooder were all born from a decent color egg hoping to retain some of that with them.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/49849_gedc0258.jpg

If these group is worth continuing to work with I would like to do so. I just could kick myself I just recently rehomed the rooster.

Edited to add: Do you have a picture of what they should look like when grown?? Would love to have a visual of the goal and what to look to keep & cull.

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Let's hope one of the chicks is a male.

Bev

 

[Goose and Fig]

I have some new pics of my rhodebar/cream legbar- looking GC project girl. I can't wait for the eggs!!!!

 

[BevDavis]

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She is a pretty chicken, wouldn;t it be nice to have some Marans that color?

Bev

 

[Goose and Fig]

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She is a pretty chicken, wouldn;t it be nice to have some Marans that color?

Bev

Thanks! She's all marans. I'd like to reproduce her, but still trying to grow out a good dark egg roo.

 

[BevDavis]

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She is a pretty chicken, wouldn;t it be nice to have some Marans that color?

Bev

Thanks! She's all marans. I'd like to reproduce her, but still trying to grow out a good dark egg roo.

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It's the egg color that is the hard part and can take years to get the color to be where it's wanted. I suppose the best chicken color to cross her would be the wheaten to increase egg color. What parents did she come from?

Bev

 

[Goose and Fig]

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Thanks! She's all marans. I'd like to reproduce her, but still trying to grow out a good dark egg roo.

Hi

It's the egg color that is the hard part and can take years to get the color to be where it's wanted. I suppose the best chicken color to cross her would be the wheaten to increase egg color. What parents did she come from?

Bev

She came out of visually golden cuckoo parents. From West Knoll Amy (formerly Nadine).
this is the GC page of thier site: http://www.westknollfarm.com/Golden-Cuckoo-Marans.html

 

[BevDavis]

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It's the egg color that is the hard part and can take years to get the color to be where it's wanted. I suppose the best chicken color to cross her would be the wheaten to increase egg color. What parents did she come from?

Bev

She came out of visually golden cuckoo parents. From West Knoll Amy (formerly Nadine).
this is the GC page of thier site: http://www.westknollfarm.com/Golden-Cuckoo-Marans.html

Hi

They are wheaten that carry the barring gene. I did have some of these many years ago but found that although the males all looked very much the same the females varied quite a bit. They were pretty birds though! I hope these crele that I am working on are as pretty but breed true. So far there is only a couple that are laying and haven't hatched a chick that I was wanting so far. It's still early days and have a lot of pullets that haven't started to lay yet.

Thank you for sharing the link, it's always nice to see what other people are working on.

Bev