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culling for the yellow feet was a great call, but it looks like you are going to have to let these guys grow out a little longer before making further culls. Their feather patterns need a little more time to mature and they need some time to fill out so we can see their shapes. Marans take a...

So depending on if you want silver based or copper based splashes, I'd think copper splash are red carriers for sure. I used silver based birds with my blues do they look a little different than the copper types.

She sounds wonderful!

I like them. Are his eyes a bit cloudy? You can breed with a clean legged bird, they definitely crop up ocassionally. You can use hens with well feathered legs for him. I like his tail angle and his color is very nice. I love the eyes on the middle hen in the bottom picture. Lovely colors on...

Feather patterns change tremendously over the course of their growth. You won't know until grown what the baby will look like, except that it follows what a Marans looks like. I would wait until full set of adult feathers to gauge the quality of the bird.

Unless they carry barring genes, there will be no sexlinked headspots. My marans will lay both solid and darkly spotted eggs within the same flock. Marans are not really easily sexable unless they are cuckoo or golden cuckoo because those are the barred varieties and males will have noticeable...

Typically, American cuckoo Marans from hatchery stock are clean legged English cuckoo Marans. There's a long story about the difference between English and French Marans, but the short version is that the English breeders focused on production and liked the clean legged look, while French...

Craigslist is great! I advertise there myself, get more hits from there than anywhere. The buyers just have a lot of sifting to do to find the gold.

It darkens on the birchen and the blacks, but not much on the splash I've got. Yes! My marans are mostly of the birchen variety, so I've got lots of those. I've added blue birchen and splash come with adding blue genetics. So I've only had the blue birchen for about a year now. Your little guy...

Yes. These have some leg in them. The hens at the bottom pic don't have very good leg feathering so you can see the color of their scales. Slate with pink soles for black and other darker based Marans. They should not have any yellow. You can tell at hatch if they have proper leg color, shown...

Marans should have pink feet for light colored marans, or slate with pink footpads. You should never see any yellow on any color of Marans, if there is yellow, they have been crossed with something. Marans have white, not yellow, skin.

That's so young to cull so hard! Heres some of this year's hatch for my birchen and blue birchen French marans. Notice the wide stance, chunky build, the feathering on the outside toe. Other people have said it, and I agree, culling so young is really hard! Down markings are indicative of...

We are just talking genetics, but you can breed however you like. If you have certain goals, however, it's fine to ask for help on achieving them. No worries! Egg color is definitely their most definitive feature.

I've been considering adding the (silver) cuckoo to my birchen flock, since they can be ran together. With the blue birchen, birchen, splash, adding in cuckoo could potentially net single and double barred cuckoo and blue cuckoo marans. Wouldn't be this year, but it's definitely a thought!

Our friend here has a trio of golden cuckoo marans, possibly with one silver Gene. He's looking to darken egg color on his golden cuckoo, so I recommended he breed his cock over black copper marans hens with proven dark eggs to darken eggs without messing up his golden cuckoo color, and breeding...

A great guy to ask is @Chooks man on Marans genetics. He works pretty closely with marans and is a wealth of information about their genetics.

Non barred would be BMC. If your golden cuckoo has any silver hidden you might get a birchen or a (silver) cuckoo. This is why they are so awesome! Edit: any silver birds probably won't show up until the second crossing, if they do show up, since your hens would be gold based.

You will increase your red/gold in your golden cuckoo by crossing out to the BMC. Many people create golden cuckoo by crossing BMC marans with a cuckoo cock and keeping all the barred chicks for grow out.

It will take time and patience, but you can do it if you have the right birds. Golden cuckoo are very pretty! One other nice thing about outcrossing to complementary lines: hybrid vigor!

Golden cuckoo can work in a breeding program with BCM. You can darken your eggs by crossing your golden cuckoo cock over BMC hens, then take the resultant single barred pullets and cross back to your sire and keep the F2 that are double barred. It may take a while, but it's a good way to darken...