Aug 14, 2011 · The same barring gene ('B') when on a rapid feathering breed gives wide, coarse, fuzzy "Cuckoo Barring" as seen on Cuckoo Marans, Cuckoo Pekins (Cochins) and others. The barring gene also interacts with the gene on the E locus, all of the above examples being based on the E plus melantoics.

Jul 24, 2008 · Although hatcheries have muddied the waters by producing badly barred Barred Rocks, cuckoo is a less distinct pattern, not evenly barred. There are actually cuckoo Silkies as well as cuckoo patterns in other breeds.

Aug 31, 2022 · Breeds available in Lemon Cuckoo: Orpingtons; Niederrheiners; Lemon Cuckoo seems to be defined as: Lemon: Light golden color over most or all of the body (lighter than most buff varieties?) Cuckoo: Soft barring in the feathers (V shaped) rather than the strong, distinct kind seen in Barred Rocks

Jun 16, 2023 · The blue gene affects the black feathers on a chicken. So a black/blue/splash chart applies to cuckoo marans, and any other chicken variety that has some amount of black. It comes up regularly with some of the laced chickens: a Black Laced Red chicken (black edges on red feathers) becomes a Blue Laced Red chicken or a Splash Laced Red chicken.

Jun 28, 2023 · He's old, very old, and clumsy. Idk how fertility would be with his own breed but he crossed out with close to 50% fertility to my young Buff Orpington pullets without a butt trim. The resulting boys look like Lemon Cuckoo Orpingtons (or maybe more accurately Buff Cuckoo), the girls pass for much bigger Buff Orpingtons.

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May 15, 2017 · The Marans, or French, Poule de Marans, is a French breed of chicken from the port town of Marans, in the département of Charente-Maitime, in the Poitou-Charentes region of western France. It was created with the local feral chickens descended from fighting game chickens carried from Indonesia and India.

Apr 4, 2020 · A cuckoo Silkie is a black bird EE with barring BB Barring is sexlinked. If you wanted to create a partridge cuckoo Silkie using a partridge Silkie and a cuckoo Silkie the easiest thing to do would be to take a cuckoo male over a partridge hen. EEBB + e^be^bb-This will give you leaky cuckoos. Ee^bBb The males will only be single barred.

Jan 8, 2025 · I don't believe there is such a thing as a "lemon" Orpington (lemon cuckoo is just buff cuckoo.) Every other color you listed here breeds true except the blue partridge. I guess I'd recommend breeding those with regular partridge because edging in this variety is less important (unless you want to get splash partridge.)

Aug 3, 2019 · Here's my question; is there a difference between a Black Cuckoo Marans and a French Cuckoo Marans or are they the same thing? Also, do strictly French Cuckoo Marans grow leg feathers? She was stubborn as could be this morning and didn't feel like having her picture taken but I did get a couple of shots of her feet before she took off and hid ...