| We are quite please with these beautiful birds. We have Lemon Cuckoos from Priscilla Middleton lines from Greenfire Farms and Pocono Farms |
| Lemon Cuckoo Orpington |
| The Barring Gene – B ( Sex-linked dominant ) The Barring Gene is an inhibitor of colour pigment and will cause white bars on any solid colour plumage. Because barred females ( B, - ) only carry one copy of the barring gene they will always be the same shade with an even distribution of colour and white throughout the feather. However males can carry either one copy of the barring gene ( B, b+ ) and will be marked as the female or can carry two copies of the barring gene ( B, B ), which inhibits a greater percentage of the feather colour. The pure barred male has generally a two thirds percentage white and one third colour, making the white bars wider and the overall appearance of the bird appear lighter. _____________________________________________ To breed Barred or Cuckoo poultry there are several breeding pen choices: ( B, B ) = a male pure for the barring gene, carrying two copies and light in appearance ( B, b+ ) = a male carrying one copy of the Barring gene ( B, - ) = a Barred female Any Solid colour BARRED MALE ( one Barred gene ) X BARRED FEMALE 50% Barred males ( 25% one Barred gene and 25% two Barred genes ), 25% Barred females and 25% solid females BARRED MALE ( one Barred gene ) x SOLID FEMALE 25% Barred males ( one Barred gene ), 25% Barred females and 50% solid colour BARRED MALE ( two Barred genes ) X BARRED FEMALE 50% Barred males ( two Barred genes ) and 50% Barred females BARRED MALE ( two Barred genes ) X SOLID FEMALE 50% Barred males ( one Barred gene ) and 50% Barred females This mating gives you the highest percentage of breeding Barred and a strong colour can be achieved by breeding only from top quality solid colour females. SOLID MALE X BARRED FEMALE 50% Barred males ( one Barred gene ) and 50% Solid females |
| Lemon Cuckoo Information courtesy of http://www.keiths-orps.co.uk |
| Barred Pullet |
| These birds are very large beautiful birds. They posses the wonderful Orpington personality and the ability to lay lots of beautiful large light brown eggs. Although we do not import, someone imported the first Lemon Cuckoo Orpingtons into the United States from the UK around 2010. We believe they were crossed to Buff Orpingtons to diversify the very small gene pool they were imported with. For this reason you will not see the big price tag on this particular line of English Orpington imports compared to the other English Orpington imports. What we are seeing in the chicks we are producing is a range of mostly double barring to very faint barring . So please be aware of the barring varieties that are possible. We believe the Lemon Cuckoos are absolutely beautiful! All the pictures on this page are our actual beautiful Lemon Cuckoo Orpingtons __________________________________________________________ |