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Those are very nice pictures! Yes, haha, definitely like a glamour photo shoot! It looks like some of your chicks may well be solid colors, but others have way more than just a tinge of copper. Those that have the copper do look like black coppers to me... the copper color goes all the way down...

Black eyes are recessive and sex-linked. So this pullet has one copy of black, and a rooster with orange eyes could have either two oranges or one orange and one something else. The father would entirely determine the eye color of a daughter from this mating. Sons would get one copy of black...

The one in your profile pic is a pullet, KerriAnn00. See her teeny tiny comb? Marans mature really early, so you'd know by now if you had a boy. Here's a cockerel at about 6 weeks, for comparison: At that age, it's hard to know how they'll turn out. But so far she looks pretty good to me! The...

I have four marans hens (two blue and two splash), and one of the four is broody. They all first started laying last spring or summer.

So the ones with silver hackles are silver blues? What about the birds in the top four pictures? They seem to be solid blue or splash, right? In your opinion, should I breed those to propagate my flock, or do they look so off that I should start over from another source? And if I should bring in...

I'm trying to figure out the genetics of my flock, which I got as blue/splash marans. Some of my birds seem to be nice, solid colors, like this: Others that I've gotten as eggs or chicks from the same source are not quite solid. Like the cockerel in front here (which I no longer have)...

For my marans, I can pick out the cockerels by two weeks because their combs grow so fast. I have a four week old cockerel right now with a *much* bigger comb than any of your five week old chicks have. So don't give up hope just yet, especially for that blue one on the left. I don't see any...

Wow, he is such a pretty boy!! As for critique, you might want to check out this site about marans body type: http://www.maransofamericaclub.com/marans-breed-type.html I am definitely no expert on the marans standard, so take what I say with a grain of salt. But going by that article, I think...

Aww, thanks!

I've got a splash marans roo that I'd love if someone could critique. Is this guy worth breeding?