Let's talk Golden Cuckoo Marans!

[morbius18]

This dark chick is from the f1x f1 pairing with a single barred rooster. I'm guessing this will be a black copper pullet that didn't inherit the barring:

 

[buckabucka]

I did a small hatch here this spring. Only 2 of 8 eggs that hatched turned out to be pullets. I chose the darkest eggs I had (which are not terribly dark), and will be looking forward to see how the new pullets' eggs turn out. They are almost 15 weeks old. The gold on their necks is rather subtle:

They are nice looking pullets. My second to last hatch had 14 cockerals and 4 pullets.

My f0 GCM cross to a black copper were really slow to gold up. With the f1 x f1 cross, they get gold when they start feathering up about 1 month.

Did the pullets gold up gradually, or were they like that the whole time?

They developed the gold fairly slowly. Here is a photo of one when she was younger (on the right). The center bird is a mixed breed, but the other two boys are both GCM and very different looking from each other.

I do not understand how you tell single barred from double barred. Is the cockerel in the foreground double barred? He looks a lot like the cockerel in your post, and is very slowly getting a little gold color. Are all GCM roosters supposed to be double barred?

 

[morbius18]

They developed the gold fairly slowly. Here is a photo of one when she was younger (on the right). The center bird is a mixed breed, but the other two boys are both GCM and very different looking from each other.

I do not understand how you tell single barred from double barred. Is the cockerel in the foreground double barred? He looks a lot like the cockerel in your post, and is very slowly getting a little gold color. Are all GCM roosters supposed to be double barred?

In order to produce all GCMs the male should have 2 barring genes and the hen only possesses one. If the rooster has 1 barring gene and the hen has 1, the hen gives barring to all the male offspring, the rooster goves 1 barring gen to half the males and 1 to half the females. You would have single barred cockerals (dark), double barred cockerals (light/correct), single barred hens (dark/correct) and unbarred hens (black copper looking).

This pic shows my f0 double barred rooster (light) and his f1 son (dark) from a cross with a black copper hen.

 

[morbius18]

They developed the gold fairly slowly. Here is a photo of one when she was younger (on the right). The center bird is a mixed breed, but the other two boys are both GCM and very different looking from each other.

I do not understand how you tell single barred from double barred. Is the cockerel in the foreground double barred? He looks a lot like the cockerel in your post, and is very slowly getting a little gold color. Are all GCM roosters supposed to be double barred?

Did your light one have a brown face as a chick?

 

[Chooks man]

Hi Morbius18.
your Double cockerel is pretty nice ,great type, nice cuckoo zig zag , pretty face NOT a great comb ( but is Ok for now) well feathered and nicely colored shanks.the gold is coming through .

I like him a lot.

in your best interest you need to keep 2 F2 roosters .a double barred for sure and one single barred with a gorgeous comb to balance your flock.

the little chick is for sure a Blue cuckoo .pretty gorgeous a little one.fast feathering type .I like that.

hope he is a cockerel .he will bring a lot to your breeding program .

Good luck with your new place .

we both are moving to a new places .

your wife has a great test .that why she is keeping the F0 with here flock. Good on here,

All the best my friend.

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Hi Buckabucka;

your 2 GCM pullets are pretty nice.
nice type.
correct body and hackle color.
good mass
well feathered shanks.
pretty well formed head.
long back.

I like a lot.

your cockerel in the front is double barred .he is lighter than his sister ( she is a single barred ) that why she is darker

if you look closely into they feathers you will see .a single barred on the pullet feathers ( other world black feather with one silver barre) the double barred will be black feather with 2 barres making t almost silver/grey .

Hope that helped

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Morbius18 ,you are alright ,the black pullet is a BCM .

chooks man

 

[buckabucka]

Thanks for the explanation on the double barring. My adult breeder rooster must be double barred, since he is light:

He looked good back then. Now, his comb is mostly gone from winter frostbite, and the hens ate all his leg feathers. He also has leg feathers on his middle toe, and a stubby outside toe.

The really light rooster from my spring hatch was kind of light brown all over. This is him as a chick:

My other male chicks looked like this:

 

[Chooks man]

Hi Buckabucka;

yeah your rooster is double barred. nice type .not a greatest comb bot not too bad. feather shanks with access is not that bad. he hasn t got too much .

2 little chicks = the brown one is e+ based .

the darker one is more of ER based .

both golden cuckoo but the French standard call for the ER based chooks .they have better coppery/Golden hackle.

e+ based chooks have a lighter colored hackle.

chooks man

 

[chickee]

They developed the gold fairly slowly. Here is a photo of one when she was younger (on the right). The center bird is a mixed breed, but the other two boys are both GCM and very different looking from each other.

I do not understand how you tell single barred from double barred. Is the cockerel in the foreground double barred? He looks a lot like the cockerel in your post, and is very slowly getting a little gold color. Are all GCM roosters supposed to be double barred?

The type on those pullets is great! Remind me what hens they are out of?