What would you get if you bred a cuckoo bird to a mottled bird?

[TheChickenFanatic]

What would you get if you bred a cuckoo bird to a mottled bird? I'm curious what the offspring would look like

 

[nuthatched]

What type of Cuckoo? What type of barred? Black and white?

 

[AinaWGSD]

Depends on whether the hen or rooster were barred. Barring is a dominant gene and mottling is a recessive gene. None of the chicks will show mottling in the first generation.

If the rooster is barred then all of the chicks will be single barred hiding mottling. The feather pattern will look exactly like female barred rocks.

If the hen is barred the chicks will be sex linked. Females will be black hiding mottling. Males will be single barred (looks like a barred rock hen) hiding mottling.

 

[TheChickenFanatic]

What type of Cuckoo? What type of barred? Black and white?

Any type of cuckoo. Chocolate, mauve, black, blue, etc.

 

[TheChickenFanatic]

Depends on whether the hen or rooster were barred. Barring is a dominant gene and mottling is a recessive gene. None of the chicks will show mottling in the first generation.

If the rooster is barred then all of the chicks will be single barred hiding mottling. The feather pattern will look exactly like female barred rocks.

If the hen is barred the chicks will be sex linked. Females will be black hiding mottling. Males will be single barred (looks like a barred rock hen) hiding mottling.

Interesting! So, they will look like standard cuckoos, but carry mottled? What if you breed the offspring back to a cuckoo (that doesn't carry mottled) of the opposite sex? Or back to a black mottled?

 

[Debbie292d]

What would you get if you bred a cuckoo bird to a mottled bird? I'm curious what the offspring would look like

With my silkies, if my double-barred cuckoo rooster bred with a mottled chocolate hen with one mottled gene, probably won't go mottled at all, or if so, very few. If they both had two, I bet they'd make some mottled cuckoos.

If it works, I don't think it would be so attractive really. I did a quick search and didn't come up with anything but a frizzle and that was a mess. It's a project I could try, but won't. Good luck if you do.

 

[TheChickenFanatic]

With my silkies, if my double-barred cuckoo rooster bred with a mottled chocolate hen with one mottled gene, probably won't go mottled at all, or if so, very few. If they both had two, I bet they'd make some mottled cuckoos.

If it works, I don't think it would be so attractive really. I did a quick search and didn't come up with anything but a frizzle and that was a mess. It's a project I could try, but won't. Good luck if you do.

I don't plan on breeding the two colors together, I was just super curious!

What are the best colors to breed cuckoo to? Specifically for silkies. I'm thinking of getting some chocolate cuckoos or black cuckoos.

 

[Debbie292d]

I don't plan on breeding the two colors together, I was just super curious!

What are the best colors to breed cuckoo to? Specifically for silkies. I'm thinking of getting some chocolate cuckoos or black cuckoos.

They make beautiful buffs!

I haven't tried chocolate cuckoos yet. I have a B&W cuckoo rooster and a lemon cuckoo rooster. I have a chocolate hen I could put with one, just haven't.

The lemon cuckoo rooster is with the buff hens, and make this or lemon ones.

 

[Debbie292d]

Here's my B&W and lemon cuckoo boys.

I don't think I'd put a mottled with either, but might put a chocolate hen with one this spring. I never thought of trying another cuckoo color but those are pretty.