Let's talk Golden Cuckoo Marans!

[BackyardMarana]

Sorry I meant e+(duckwing)

 

[BackyardMarana]

Does mine look like good quality ?

 

[Chooks man]

Hi Morbiua 18.
I see you have made a number of F1 and f2 chicken a lot to choose from .BUT there is a catch with your super sire GCM rooster.

before you get ready of him make sure you mated him back to his daughter to make the F2 .
I see you have the F2 they are the result of F1 X F1 or F0 X F1 ?

You managed to get a double cockerel . I think is worth to work with him.

If you have a good BlueCM hens laying a dark egg and you want to incorporate they gene into your GCM.?

That how I ll do ;
F0 is proven to be a good sire .why not mate him to the Blue copper hens and get F1 crele marans ( Blue Goden cuckoo ) and do a same thing you done with a GCM .after merge the F2 from both lines the Blue and the Black and run them parallel ,they ll work well together same as Blue copper with a Black copper.

Good luck my friend.

 

[Chooks man]

Hi Backyard marana.
you pullet is still young to tell if she is good or not . she is a golden cuckoo from a Golden salmon line.
you have to wait tell she start laying and see what eggs colour, than go from there.

chooks man

 

[BackyardMarana]

Ok thanks for the help

 

[morbius18]

Hi Morbiua 18.
I see you have made a number of F1 and f2 chicken  a lot to choose from .BUT there is a catch with your super sire GCM rooster.

 before you get ready of him make sure you mated him back to his daughter to make the F2 .
I see you have the F2 they are the result of F1 X F1 or F0 X F1 ?

You managed to get a double cockerel . I think is worth to work with him.

If you have a good BlueCM hens laying a dark egg and you want to incorporate they gene into your GCM.?

That how I ll do ;
F0 is proven to be a good sire .why not mate him to the Blue copper hens and get F1 crele marans ( Blue Goden cuckoo ) and do a same thing you done with a GCM .after merge the F2 from both lines the Blue and the Black and run them parallel ,they ll work well together same as Blue copper with a Black copper.

Good luck my friend.

I mated my f1s together to get the f2s. Because of his flaws, I was thinking use him to create f1s then start with the f1s as the new line.

So f0 gives me f1s. Mate the f1s to get f2s. Use f1 rooster over f2 hens to get f3a, use the f2 rooster over the f1 hens to get f3b.

And work with the two lines. I don't really have room for 4 breeding pens. Ive got 3 set up now with nice sized runs, So I have room to work with the blue golden cuckoos as well. But probably not enough room to work with the blues and breed the white out.

 

[Chooks man]

Hi Morbius18.

I see no much space.that Ok.

here a second plan. Use his son s double barred cockerel over a Blue copper hen and get F1 Blue crele different line. Keep the best cockerels and pullets from this line and mate them to your existing GCM marge them strait away to save a space.
if you use his son than you are automatically getting ready of the a recessive white gene.

I think is a good idea to introduce your Blue CM to the GCM line you will gain a lot. because the Black and a Blue work very well together. so you can run them together too.you ll always get 50% Blue crele and 50% GCM.

The eggs from your GCM are a good 4 that all right they are marans by the standard minimum 4.

Chooks man
Antonio

 

[morbius18]

Hi Morbius18.

I see no much space.that Ok.

here a second plan. Use his son s double barred cockerel over a Blue copper hen and get F1 Blue crele different line. Keep the best cockerels and pullets from this line and mate them to your existing GCM marge them strait away to save a space.
if you use his son than you are automatically getting ready of the  a recessive white gene.

I think is a good idea to introduce your Blue CM to the GCM line you will gain a lot. because the Black and a Blue work very well together. so you can run them together too.you ll always get 50% Blue crele and 50% GCM.

The eggs from your GCM are a good 4 that all right they are marans by the standard minimum 4.

Chooks man
Antonio

How does using the double barred son eliminate the recessive white? Couldn't he be a carrier, but still be double barred?

 

[Chooks man]

Because the son carry only one recessive white gene c SO he s C+/c.
if crossed to a C+/C+ no white hen = will produce 50% split white C+/c and 50% no carrier C+/C+ as a F1.
than if you taste mate the F1 between them selves you will find the C+/C+ no white chooks and the split white. Keep only the C+/C+ no white ( plus they will carry the dark eggs genes as a bonus and a Blue double bonus ).
take you one season if you taste mate the F1 progeny ( before you breed them forward) and you are done .pure GCM and Blue crele maran both ER based and lay a dark egg .
and if you run then together as Blue crele Rooster over a GCM and other way around GCM rooster over a Blue crele Hens ET voila you ll have better control of the Blue colour because you are working t with a black. and you ll have a better Golden hackles on your Blue crele ( the Blue dilute the the Coper to Gold ) because of the GCM.

is better to run the Blue and the Black together .better result.

Chooks man

 

[ChuskaMtns]

Can any one help me with this chicken
I was told it was a golden cuckoo maran pullet ..is she a she and is she pure breed ? Thanks for any help

She should lay a nice dark egg when she starts laying. I'm assuming you're in Marana, so your pullet is out of Patti Jordan's line. Her old line did sometimes produce lightly feathered shanks but dark egg layers. She's been working with the GCMs for quite a few years now and her newest generation produces dark eggs, have nice feathered shanks and have lost the white tail feathers.