CHOCOLATE CUCKOO ORPINGTON LARGE FOWL

  FOR 2013 I WILL BE RUNNING A BREEDING PEN OF CHOCOLATE CUCKOO LARGE FOWL

CHOCOLATE CUCKOO LARGE FOWL HATCHING EGGS - £5.00 - MAX TWELVE PER ORDER

PULLET AND COCKEREL GROWERS AVAILABLE JULY 2013

PONT OF LAY BREEDING PAIRS AVAILABLE NOW - £70.00

( Homebred 2010 Chocolate Cuckoo Large Fowl cockerel )

The original Cuckoo Orpington LF was bred and introduced by William Cook’s daughter Elizabeth Jane in 1907 not many years after his death.

Apart from the standard Cuckoo colour all solid colours can be created in a cuckoo variety .

( Running with his Pricilla Middleton Large Fowl Cuckoo hens )

( Chocolate Cuckoo cockerel 6 weeks old )

The Chocolate Cuckoo large fowl cockerel  is only carrying a single barring gene that he inherited from his father.

As the Barring gene is sex-linked dominant to be pure for this gene his mother would have to have been barred and she was solid Chocolate.

But he has inherited two copies of the Chocolate gene, one from his split Chocolate father and one from his Chocolate mother.

( Chocolate Cuckoo cockerel at 3 months and four months old )

CLICK 0N THE LINK BELOW TO SEE WHAT GENES THE LARGE FOWL CHOCOLATE CUCKOO ORPINGTONS CARRY