Thanks everyone for the interest.
Illia & others. So what is your understanding as to why someone would want to use Marans for crossing for meat birds- with dark cornish or others?
"Egg color either way will be a normal brown, since most Cuckoo Marans have poor color of eggs anyway". Well...
Help with genetics. Relatively new to all this but on my 2nd batch of 25 chickens. Have numerous varieties and now I'm interested in crossing.
Was curious what the difference would be between crossing a male Cuckoo Maran with a Dark Cornish vs Crossing a female Cuckoo Maran with a Male Dark...