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They have wheaten maran genes. I have some like these and I got a cream white maran out of the eggs. The mossy chicks will stay mossy and the blue chicks will have yellowish feathers as adults where they have rusty red.

Probably pecked them off each other. Happens with my faverolles and they're adults now.

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yep they look like pullets

I forgot about the black x splash combination.

There is no way to tell an egg will hatch out a blue copper. it looks like a boy

yes pullets will fight with other chickens but roosters have a very specific way of fighting. have you ever seen a cockfight? the hackle feathers on the neck will stand up

Rose combs are not from black copper marans, I'm guessing they came from an easter egger hence the olive egger. And i think you have some roos, the one in the 2nd to last photo looks like a boy to me. I really really wish people who sell birds would try to inform themselves more. For example...

Yep that's a rooster

You can also feel the space between their legs to see if they will be good egg layers. the wider the hips the better.

I think most pullets will have pinched tails at this age but here are some of mine. I tried getting the ones with tails in them

The most I hatch at one time are 24. And I'm letting them grow out so i can select breeding stock.

I could tell for sure at 3 months. But you could start to see it at around 7-8 weeks

That splash has too much white, feathers and all. Even the legs seem to be almost pink like a buff orpington's. Maybe it's still too young and will darken with age. I guess different bloodlines have different shades of darkness on the splash. I said blue/black because not a lot of people know...

Olive eggers

Well, there is the body type stablished by the APA for the copper maran breed that you can read here http://maranschickenclubusa.com/Varieties.html. And most everyone here agrees that better egg layers usually have more space between the legs/ bigger hip bones.

Also, you might not want to use that splash with white legs. Marans have blue/black legs

They don't seem to have ameracauna genes. I think they just need some work on bringing them up to the standard. They don't have to be perfect if they are going to be egg layers and not really used for show. I would just work on egg size, egg color and body type if for backyard egg layers.

Also, are there no black marans?

oh sorry, yeah I should have said overmelanized black copper hen/roo