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

[Goose and Fig]

These 3 are all clean legged, but I have those others due in a few days. Its so easy to get them, that's the least of my worries. These chicks are huge!

 

[Raven1]

I do love the size on the chicks I am getting out of this roo. I am gettng both feathered and non-feathered just kinda wondering what you got, not my biggest concern either but by this time next year all my GCM's will be feathered.

 

[Goose and Fig]

Becky- if this hatch goes well do you want a few of the GC chicks from NC? I haven't been able to see in them, so I just put them all in lockdown and am hoping for the best

Anyway- I have to deliver some other birds over Cookeville way after the 10th so just let me know

 

[Raven1]

I would be interested! PM me your details Thanks!

 

[Goose and Fig]

Well my hatch from those NC Braden golden cuckoos was quite dissappointing

1/2 the eggs were clear, and the others were late and shrinkwrapped. So- I ended up with 3 chicks. The coloring is crazy on them.

Becky- if I end up with at least 2 girls in this bunch you can have one. I am already thinking the one with the big white back/butt is a lil roo.

 

[HenThymes]

Wow Amy, those are some crazy colors!!

If you ever end up over this way (in the near future) I do have some gold cuckoo's in the brooders. I have two gorgeous double barred males and only going to keep one, also have several girls in the group along with one or two single barred cockerels.

I know that gold's are still somewhat a project color but I got much more consistent coloring in my hatches.

 

[Goose and Fig]

I know, right?!?!
Every time I hatch them I get something different.

I am scaling back on my blue copper pen for next year, so I will have bunch of space for the GC projects. I'd like to have 3 roos from different lines, so its a possibility. Going to be in Greenville, SC for a week next spring and I will probably need to escape for a couple hours so if you still have something available then.....

My father is going to be watching the farm while we go, and he isn't very mobile, so I am trying to get all the baby chick stuff out of the way now. The less he has to do, the better.

 

[verlaj]

You guys up north are making me crazy with all your talk about having lots of GCMs in the brooder and so on! I hatched eggs from pasofinofarm last spring (2010) and ended up with 3 roosters! Since the hatch on the shipped eggs was so poor, I was hoping to get chicks or eggs within driving distance to get some pullets to go with the gorgeous boys I have! I'm hoping for flagardengirl to come through with eggs/chicks in the spring!

 

[Raven1]

Nice size on those babies but coloring is ....odd. May turn out to be just beautiful who knows right. Sure I am always interested in any chicks especially pullets!

 

[jeremy]

Does anyone have Golden Cuckoos from Melissa of Nonesuch Farms?