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What a fantastic answer! Hey Chrunchie!
Lisa, I think you've got it correct. The Marans roos develop their combs and waddles pretty early on, and they will be bigger and redder than their female counterparts. Sometimes, you might have a late developer. This could be the case with...
It's hard to say and I definitely am not in any place to judge anyone else's birds. But if he carries it like that all of the time, yes, I would call it squirrel tail (in the first pic). But any bird can carry its tail like that at any given moment--you can't tell from one snapshot--so I...
In general I find that Marans roosters have longer/larger wattles and combs than this guy here (my other roos, which I don't have pics of on the computer, have the larger wattles/combs typical of Marans). But this guy is built much better than my other roosters from other lines (for example...