An answer to an old post...this is recessive white. If he is bred to a recessive white carrier you have a 50% chance of white chicks.
This boy was a happy surprise! We purchased Black Copper Maran eggs. All the rest were the expected colour. We contaced the breeder and found out that his BCMs do, rarely, have a pure white chick. This photo was taken when he was just 4 months old. He is very big now and has lovely conformation. Wish I had a white French Maran pullet to breed him too! Is the white recessive? What if I breed him to a black hatch mate? What about to a blue or splash?
Couple of options here, recessive white or mixed up eggs. I am suspicious because of the gray feather showing on the wing and at the base of that one tailfeather, which means that chick could be a splash from blue copper breeding. My recessive white chicks looked wheaten at hatch and feathered in snow white.Put black copper Marans eggs in the incubator and out of 10 shipped eggs these 2 hatched. What is this white chick - he is twice the size of the normal black Marans that hatched in this batch. The eggs looked exactly alike - is this a mutant?
No shank/toe feathering, spots...not a white Marans. I had some that looked like that, Marans crossed with golden buff sexlinks. Do you have any of those type of hens?I hatched out a barnyard mix of eggs and most hatched out looking like black marans except one. A cute little yellow chick with black spots and clean legs. Could this be a white maran?
There are Marans and Red Sexlinks, could this produce my chick??
