Cuckoo marans

[Sandyduckcrazy]

Hi everyone I just got my first ducklings & Chickens this spring. I have 3 Cuckoo Maran chickens 2 hens & 1 rooster. I love them so much! They are nice birds & my rooster is a trip!

 

[Chooks man]

Hi Lincityfarmette .

All your 3 cuckoos are pullets.
the one with a red spot is not pure color wise but she is a good type.
the other 2 are pure silver cuckoo pattern . I don t see feathers on they shanks.

can you post photos of you Blue barred cuckoo .i love to see them . I m working on the Blue GCM my self.

chooks man

 

[Chooks man]

Hi Sandyduckcrazy post photos of you 3 cuckoo marans please .

chooks man

 

[Sandyduckcrazy]

These are the girls! Lisette is fromt right and Baptiste is back left.

 

[Sandyduckcrazy]

Then here is our rooster Mr. Bubbles! He and the girls are wonderful. They are 15 weeks old.

 

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[Chooks man]

Hi Sandyduckcrazy .
you have a trio of a English cuckoo marans. they look good to me from the distance.
the cockerel is double barred DF .

The English strain lay dark egg .but they have a tall feet and featherless .

I have them my self and the French type too . I like the French type one.

you have to wait and see what color eggs they will lay. maybe you will struck lucky. Good luck

chooks man

 

[Sandyduckcrazy]

Great info TY. My husband and I had no idea about English Cuckoo Marans. So much or all the time and effort to pick out Hebrew/French names for our hens.

Could you please explain what double barred DF means?

I really want a broody chicken over egg color. I was told that the Cuckoo Maran was one of the chickens to buy! Do you find this to be factual?

 

[rfreedlund]

I really want a broody chicken over egg color. I was told that the Cuckoo Maran was one of the chickens to buy! Do you find this to be factual?

My flock currently has eight Cuckoo Marans. While I wanted more the dark egg color than broodiness, I did purchase them the first time having read that they tended to go broody too, just in case I wanted to try hatching some. My first summer with four I didn't have any of them go broody on me. The second summer I got four more and still no broodies. However, this summer I ended up having two of them finally decide to go broody on me, but only after I had already gotten a couple of other faithfuls do the job for me when I no longer needed broodies.

Will some go broody? Perhaps... but from my experience I would no longer consider them as my first choice if I am looking for someone to hatch chicks. My Australorps have been my most faithful broodies, followed by my Austra-Whites (Australorp Male over Leghorn Female), my Barred Rocks, and I even had a White Leghorn hatch some for me which I wasn't expecting at all. And now, for the first time I have an Easter Egger that just wants to set, also at a time when I don't need her. Broodiness does seem to be contagious, though, so anything is possible.

Good luck.