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[Suzierd]

This is The Duchess. Ive had her around three weeks and she is a darling!

Beautiful!

 

[lualshannon]

Bella has no decided she is camera shy, so this is the best I could do!

I love your photos, Johnn! Each frame is telling a story of your well loved birds; how sweet!

 

[lualshannon]

This is The Duchess. Ive had her around three weeks and she is a darling!

Duches is very pretty!

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

For those who have Lemon Cuckoos (mine DO NOT HAVE THAT ISSUE) missing toe nails I would think to not breed them. I am not sure about the genetics that is responsible for that. It does seem those responsible for that line of Lemon Cuckoos have not done a good job in moving that variety forward. There is ALOT more to worry about then just missing toe nials. Lousy type is the biggie that I see inherit with them yet alone the toe nails missing.

Thank you. I agree that one would NOT continue to breed something as "obvious"- at the least, as missing toe nails, not very responsible. Just wanted to get alittle better understanding of the comment in the post. Didn't realize there is a great deal more to "work-on" if one should decide to get serious about this particular type. I do understand that any "project" is a work in progress, "perfection" is the ultimate chupacabra.(sp?) Thank you again for your insite. Enjoying the learning adventure. - Danielle

 

[LittleMissPurdy]

This is The Duchess. Ive had her around three weeks and she is a darling!

love how that black shines...Beautiful!

 

[OrpieLover31]

Here are some of my Orpington's... again..

 

[Cooptopia]

Here are a couple of my girls, 4 weeks old today.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

i have seen Dick's Cuckoos and if he is showing brown then he is an off color golden cuckoo Marans most likely...

Are you wanting DUN Cuckoos? Or just Cuckoos? I have 2 Cuckoo pullets. One is a monster who lays ginormous eggs. She and my Cuckoo Marans pullet are rite now in with my Dickerson Cuckoo Marans. That Cuckoo Marans cock looks to be a DUN Cuckoo. You can have some from him if you like. I need to move my big Cuckoo pullet that is in that pen in with one of the 2 Cuckoo Orp cockerels. I haven't made up my mind which boy I want to take her too. I was considering taking her to the cockerel you like. But the other Cuckoo boy takes after Harry's line. He was 11 lbs at 10 months old. That was a month ago. He and this Cuckoo pullet would make some huge Cuckoos. Most likely they would not be Dun. I am not going to keep many Cuckoos. Last year I only hatched out 10. Sold off 5 pullets and one cockerel. Kept just 2 boys and 2 girls. So, anyone who likes some just let me know.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

if you use a dun bird over a black bird then u will get 50% dun and 50% black offspring... the partridge would be allot harder to pull back out... it would take u at least 3 generations i think...

Just say hypothetically, you put Dun over, lets say Partridge.... The Dun will replace the black on the partridge?

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

this is a very common problem with the very expensive birds... every one want to get the return on there hundreds of dollars to buy the birds and wants to make a quick buck on top of that... so allot of them are in really bad shape from generations of breeding birds that should not be bred... take the silver Sussex for example it will take about 10 years to bring them back...

Hello, I am new to all of this and am very interested in the genetics/breeding end of bird raising. I do not have Orps. at this time, getting Wyandottes on Friday, BUT, love the Orpingtons! My question to you is " Is NOT having toe nails on the Cuckoos(lemon) a continual/progressive problem in that type?" I hope this question makes sense. Thank you, it is a pleasure looking at everyones Beautiful birds! - Danielle