Let's talk Golden Cuckoo Marans!

[cree57i]

Let me know if you want to let go of any of those. Great color!

 

[morbius18]

Let me know if you want to let go of any of those. Great color!

Right now I have no functioning rooster over her. But when i get them up and running and the new blue gcm is doing his job I can do that.

 

[Chooks man]

sorry to hear about your trouble .

it is a big lost .you worked so hard for them .

your Blue cuckoo cockerel look good to me .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

I was tired of fooling with the browns, whites and lack of gold on some. Plus the new line all hatched from these color eggs on the left from the blue copper:
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I agree with you .you should focus on the Blue hen progeny .
her eggs are stunning
will be nicer if you have her son in black not Blue .so you can mate him back to her and start her line .
the blue cuckoo over her will throw some splash barred and no barred .

doesn t matter any of her son will be great over her . to strengthen the dark egg gene .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

#morbius 18
the dark cuckoo cockerel is stunning . love his body type and the way he carries him self .
is he a son of the Blue copper hen ? will be great if he is .

stunning

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Since my last posting, I had been quite busy with our farm. We also had a disaster. We were free ranging our juveniles in a 1/2 acre area with 3 foot chicken wire around it. A fox got in and killed 12 of my blue gcms. It wiped out my entire earlier hatch, as well as attacked my blue copper mother of the new line.

We isolated her in a crate for a week to allow her open wounds to scab over without flies. We put some of her younger babies with her to motivate her. She had attacked the fox and fought it off protecting the babies. My rooster ran. It took her about 2 weeks to learn to walk again and not scoot around. She healed up perfectly and mothered the babies again.

That being said, I got rid of the GCM F0 rooster, the F1 and F2 hen. I kept a batch of the F0 to blue copper cross and will be redoing the line from those.

This is the F1 blue GCM son of that pairing:
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I've got 9 more that I kept, 5 pullets and 4 cockerals.

Some are blue some are black with their mother, the blue copper hen:
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I have a question on this guy. His dam is the above blue copper hen. I bought her as a week old chick from a blue and black copper flock. She never developed the copper. It seems that she also doesn't pass it along. The GCM sire was gold, and she has no red/copper. This cockeral could pass as a blue. No obvious barring or gold/ blue. What does this say about the mother's genetics?
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the cuckoo gene on the blue chooks is very hard to see some times .especially if it is a lighter blue .

the hackle /shoulder and lancet should be barred wen he is old enough .

chooks man

 

[morbius18]

#morbius 18
the dark cuckoo cockerel is stunning . love his body type and the way he carries him self .
is he a son of the Blue copper hen ? will be great if he is .

stunning

chooks man

Yes he is a son of the blue hen. I have 2 black cockerals, 3 blue cockerals, and 2 black pullets and 3 blue pullets from that hatch.

 

[Chooks man]

Yes he is a son of the blue hen. I have 2 black cockerals, 3 blue cockerals, and 2 black pullets and 3 blue pullets from that hatch.

5 of each .keep your eyes open my friend . they are good chooks .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

here few pick of my Golden cuckoo marans .
this 2 cockerels are brother s and they are ER/ER .s+/s+, B/b+. dark cuckoo
both where hatched at 65g each ,well chunky .
they are short of they feet . great quality .
they are build like a tanks . super heavy

this one is the older one 7 month now ,has a great comb .but he has a parasitic white too . great body type . his name is Croc Hunter .

his brother 6.5 month old

love his body type .true rectangular . his tail is gorgeous .
No parasitic white on this one ,,but really bad comb .

both of them are sired by my F2 Shamrock S/s+ Silver/gold cuckoo over a Blue copper hen .

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

golden/silver cuckoo F1 cockerel, sired by Charlie2 my silver cuckoo over a Blue copper hens Bella

this one is a big cockerel . huge . a little taller on his feet .
love his body type .long flat back and really short small tail . deep chest and wide shoulders.
his comb is not bad neither great .need a little tuning that all .
he is ER/Er .S/s+. B/b+

his name is Bello
he is going to help me to fix the type of my Birchen line . Copenhagen line .too boxy

chooks man