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This year I'll attempt to try to isolate which birds carry the gene. I'll just not be able to hatch as much.
I'm breeding for myself, not to show. And there isn't an American Poultry Association recognized Golden Cuckoo color. I have 2 breeding pens set up with a smaller coop that I've got to build a pen for. It can hold up to 4 birds, so I can Isolate a rooster and hen.
Is the creme gene expressed with 2 copies? The blue GCM would pass it to all offspring in that case. My dark single barred doesn't have the dark orange either. Don't know if that is how creme is expressed in single barred birds.
Blue GCM. He's filled out some. We had really cold temps and he lost some point tips to frostbite.
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Dark single barred rooster. Never really developed creme or red, just lighter. He had really bad frostbite on his tips.
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he is good looking too . Cream genes is not allowing the Autossomal Red to express it self properly .
I like the Blue cuckoo pullets in his pen .well chunky .
you are doing very well with what you ve got .Bravo
chooks man
I guess I'll keep working with what I have. If 1 copy of creme is dominant, then I can pull any offspring that dont show it and work with those. I think my roosters are heterozygous for is as this is their dam:
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I guess I could just start a cream cuckoo marans color. Splash would be cookies and cream, lol
I also have been following this thread i purchased eggs off of ebay from a breeder that has the most lovely GCM. I purchased her eggs and none developed. Determined I purchased an additional dozen from the same breeder and this time i have three out of 1 dozen hatch. The eggs were a lovely dark chocolate brown expected for marans but my babies do not look like anyone's on here sooooo do i have GCM babies here? I have a silver white with two light grey spots and a redish brown mark on her or his face the second is redish brown color with a white spot and the last is yellow head grey body which to me looks like a GCM so are the other two a different maran and if they are what type are they they all have feathered legs