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[Cowgirlgrace]

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I knew that Sussex and Orpingtons didn't have feathered legs, so that was what I thought was interesting about it. In looking at CGG's message, she said it could be the exhibition black orpington OR the golden cuckoo marans. These little Sussex x's looked so much like orp babies to my untrained eye I guess I just assumed that's who the daddy was. So maybe it was the golden cuckoo marans after all? This is interesting result of that mix too then. I know nothing about genetics so don't know what would make what. The other baby looks exactly the same, but without the feathered legs. Crummy pix here, but I didn't feel like getting the big camera out and then having to download to PC, so I cheated and used camera phone. I think you can get the general idea though. What I do know for sure is that the light sussex is the mama, since I took these eggs from her myself!

I'll take better photos tomorrow.

What do you guys think? Who should be sending chickie support checks - black orpington or golden cuckoo marans?
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Cuckoo X cochin?
She has no cuckoo marans that I know of~

I don't breed them. I just had a few cuckoo hens for egg layers and crossed them with my BCM roo for fun. Then took those chicks and crossed them back to the BCM. The reasult was this gorgeous Golden Cuckoo Marans roo and 3 golden cuckoo hens. They are all in my layer pen where Sadie Sues light sussex was. Looks like the BCM in the Goldens influenced it a lot. Definately not from the Black Orp.

 

[Chickielady]

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Orpington's and Sussex do not have feathered legs, so that one has a different parent than the rest. I'm trying to remember what else CGG has, maybe Marans?

I knew that Sussex and Orpingtons didn't have feathered legs, so that was what I thought was interesting about it. In looking at CGG's message, she said it could be the exhibition black orpington OR the golden cuckoo marans. These little Sussex x's looked so much like orp babies to my untrained eye I guess I just assumed that's who the daddy was. So maybe it was the golden cuckoo marans after all? This is interesting result of that mix too then. I know nothing about genetics so don't know what would make what. The other baby looks exactly the same, but without the feathered legs. Crummy pix here, but I didn't feel like getting the big camera out and then having to download to PC, so I cheated and used camera phone. I think you can get the general idea though. What I do know for sure is that the light sussex is the mama, since I took these eggs from her myself!

I'll take better photos tomorrow.

What do you guys think? Who should be sending chickie support checks - black orpington or golden cuckoo marans?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/54793_whiteys_baby_3.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/54793_whiteys_baby.jpg

FCM chicks:

Hope this helps, and yes, most have feathered shanks, but never toes.

 

[Chickielady]

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Cuckoo X cochin?
She has no cuckoo marans that I know of~

I don't breed them. I just had a few cuckoo hens for egg layers and crossed them with my BCM roo for fun. Then took those chicks and crossed them back to the BCM. The reasult was this gorgeous Golden Cuckoo Marans roo and 3 golden cuckoo hens. They are all in my layer pen where Sadie Sues light sussex was. Looks like the BCM in the Goldens influenced it a lot. Definately not from the Black Orp.

Good to see ya!!
You have golden cuckoo and never told me ??

You have to have red/brown + cuckoo to produce golden cuckoo.
Your erd/brown came from the BCM, well done !!
Golden Cukoo Cockeral Died, and I still miss him so much

 

[Chickielady]

Later guys!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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That's good. I'm wondering, myself, just how hard I'd have to scrounge to find enough steel barn roofing to cover the Wyandotte coop. I'm like the kid who found a leash and was looking for the dog to go with it: I've got one piece of the heavy galvanized roofing Dad put on the dairy barn that belonged to the neighbors. There was 5000sq ft of it, and it's got to be around here somewhere: we salvaged it before the (please assemble profanity sufficient to describe the kind of people who would burn down a meticulously maintained 1932 vintage old-growth fir fifty-cow milking parlor and hay barn. The tongue-and groove alone...) first time developers burned it down (additional disrespectful language reflecting disrespect sufficient to describe cutting down a open square of a dozen 500 year old plus year old oak trees and having the "open space" in the development be a useless triangle of ground stripped of topsoil, inaccessible to all of the houses on the cul-de sac. They could have had a circle drive and the oaks for a park, and increased the per lot price in doing it...). And nobody's had time to use that much roofing since then, but it's seriously not the sort of thing that my family* is likely to sell.

*sigh* oh, well, thinking about structures and materials gets me down: so much waste because people can't be bothered to have an original thought in developing land. So much lost to history, inclusing a twelve-foot-long cast concrete watering trough that they busted up with D-10s and buried in the storm water pond. I've been thinking about things I'd like to recycle to build animal housing, raised beds, retaining walls, and knowing that a lot of it has gone up in smoke not even for fire department training.

So, yeah: good to have people you can work with. I wish I wasn't so stuck on doing things myself.






*or my BIL's family: he has an eight-foot-ocean-going-ship brass propellar laying next to the boar pen.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Sorry about the cold; some times I swear that respiratory viruses are the body's way of insisting on attention to needs for rest and comfort.

About the coop: I have a built-in aversion to low-pitch and flat roofs because eventually, inevitably, they leak, especially if they have flush edges instead eaves, and it's never at a convenient or fun to work outside in time. It's easy to retrofit a pitched roof on something, though, including one made of greenhouse cover and tape over PVC pipe.

The BLRW hen was gone, although I'm fine with that: I was getting a little twitchy at the idea of getting two kinds of chickens from two different sources needing two quarantine pens. Tomorrow morning I'll put a hoop-house over the raspberry bed and "build" a gate end* and a coop end** for it, not a problem, and then go get the Hamburgs. Monday I've either got to buy chicken feed or see what Paul has in the way of grain dust down by my corral. I also have to figure out how I'm planning on worming: I've got the wormer, but I'll need to rig a chicken squeeze chute because I'm one-handed and that one hand no great shucks for reliability.

Pouring rain. Wonder how many people heard the thunder just after 5:40? The radar is not encouraging for the rest of the evening, either.

*nesting box frames, hardware cloth over interior frame, top hinges.

**plywood, whichever sheet fits best, w/ hardware cloth to attach it to the last hoop.

As far as us need to stop & rest and comfort ourselves, I have wondered the same thing, especially since I had my HIS-torecto-ME!!!!!!
Since then, I have gone on 24/7/12, never again a cramp or swerve in hormonals moaning...and I am convinced that I need to stop & rest like I used to BEFORE....once a month we were meant to STOP, eat Toll House Cookies & whine, (or wine!)

Yeah, that was one of the things about full menopause: I did not have the moment when my patience ran out with myself and everyone around me, and THINGS GOT DONE. (Well, that and losing control of my diabetes and having to test six times a day). And then I would fall over and finally sleep for a long night and feel much much better after the cycle. I seem to have relocated the getting things done part, but not the laying down and sleeping for twelve hours or so part.

 

[ReiMiraa]

One chick has started the hatch. only 1.5 days early.
I had an apple bread I have going in the bread machine next to the incubator... and I thought it was air bubbles making the squeak. then i looked in the incubator... squeaking increases when light passes... but i couldn't see anything.

Now it is half unzipped and it a chatty little thing.... me think roo since its so noisy.

But here is to proof that i was doing things right for 3 weeks. I plugged the incubator to increase from 60% to 65% so it can hatch easier... but its membrane looks good, no veins so this is good.

 

[T Hi]

The 1st duckling of the 3rd hatch!

 

[T Hi]

Yes CL 2 ducklings were sold today!!!!

3 more are supposed to go tomorrow!! That leaves 4 from the 1st hatch that still needs to go!!

Holey Moley it is raining buckets!!!! Even the ducks went into their house to get away from it!!

 

[SadieSue]

Re: Washingtonians
Chickielady wrote:

SadieSue wrote:

WA4-Hpoultrymom wrote:


Orpington's and Sussex do not have feathered legs, so that one has a different parent than the rest. I'm trying to remember what else CGG has, maybe Marans?
I knew that Sussex and Orpingtons didn't have feathered legs, so that was what I thought was interesting about it. In looking at CGG's message, she said it could be the exhibition black orpington OR the golden cuckoo marans. These little Sussex x's looked so much like orp babies to my untrained eye I guess I just assumed that's who the daddy was. So maybe it was the golden cuckoo marans after all? This is interesting result of that mix too then. I know nothing about genetics so don't know what would make what. The other baby looks exactly the same, but without the feathered legs. Crummy pix here, but I didn't feel like getting the big camera out and then having to download to PC, so I cheated and used camera phone. I think you can get the general idea though. What I do know for sure is that the light sussex is the mama, since I took these eggs from her myself!

I'll take better photos tomorrow.

What do you guys think? Who should be sending chickie support checks - black orpington or golden cuckoo marans?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/54793_whiteys_baby_3.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/54793_whiteys_baby.jpg
Cuckoo X cochin?
She has no cuckoo marans that I know of~
I don't breed them. I just had a few cuckoo hens for egg layers and crossed them with my BCM roo for fun. Then took those chicks and crossed them back to the BCM. The reasult was this gorgeous Golden Cuckoo Marans roo and 3 golden cuckoo hens. They are all in my layer pen where Sadie Sues light sussex was. Looks like the BCM in the Goldens influenced it a lot. Definately not from the Black Orp.

Cool - thank you for clearing up the mystery! I'm really hoping that baby turns out to be a pullet. It was my very first hatched chick and I really want to keep her. Thanks again for my light Sussex Lyn - we're crazy about her. And what a fantastic layer she's turned out to be!​