Welbar using a cuckoo maran?

[Chris09]

The Welbar should have the same breeding as some Legbars. "Brown" X Barred Breeding.

Chris

 

[verlaj]

I guess this is a "Marwel" then - GCM X Welsummer! She's 13 wks now - 12 wks in the photo. No eggs to report about yet!

 

[shelleyd2008]

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So she had a GCM Daddy? If she had a GCM Mama then I'm sorry to say that 'she' is a he.

 

[nicalandia]

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they are very nice

 

[verlaj]

So she had a GCM Daddy? If she had a GCM Mama then I'm sorry to say that 'she' is a he.

A GCM Daddy - I only have GCM roos - and no Welsummer roos! No doubt about the parentage! Or the sex!​

 

[verlaj]

nicalandia - Is the photo of a BR over RIR? Gorgeous bird!

 

[nicalandia]

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I believe so, not my birds.. I think Tim was working on them

 

[bantambob]

I have Welbar in google alerts and this thread keeps coming up
so thought i would post a pic. of a 2011 bred female

 

[Dora'smom]

Those birds (especially the big, red roo) are beautiful!
I had a hatch of mixed orpingtons (the lady I got the eggs from had only orpingtons---black, lavender, buff, etc.) on July 1. One of the chicks looks like a huge, fluffy robin, and another looks like it has yellow/red and blue barring on it's face and head, and then blue/black/ white barring on its body. I don't know how that can be if the birds were pure, but I guess the originals might have been from a hatchery with some degree of mix to them. Interesting to see these pictures.

 

[WIChookchick]

I have a cuckoo maran rooster, and two hens, as well as english cuckoos...
I have three chicks, 1 seems to be PB Cuckoo maran, the other is not, it is a Jaerhon/cuckoo cross. Jaerhons have barring.... The third is too skittish to get a good look at yet.
BUT all three have a yellow spot on their heads..
Does that mean roos??