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Different breeds and bloodlines devlop and mature at different rates. By 5 to 6 months of age he should be sexually capable and should have his dominance well established over the pullets, if not before then. Generally speaking a cockerel will begin crowing and start trying to show signs of...

Your Cuckoo Marans is a cockerel (boy). He is a very handsome young rooster and should make a good flock leader to your production red pullets.

Splash copper cockerels are generally useless for the breeding pen. I didnt mean that to sound rude at all. :) The splash disguises/conceals most of the color underneath so you dont know what you are working with. In your roo's case he looks over colored so he would probably produce some...

In the pics she looks straight combed and she said she was white/pink legged so she sounds like a Cuckoo Marans. Dominiques have rose combs.

My cuckoo hens are much darker but if her legs are pinkish white she is cuckoo marans. If she is clean legged she is probably hatchery stock of the english standard, not the french standard. The french standard that the APA recognizes here in the US calls for lightly feathered legs. She will...

Black cochin. If he is a lot smaller than your other chickens he may be a black cochin bantam.

She is a cutie! My cuckoos are very curious as well. :)

I will most definitely cull any roos with vulture hock. If any pullets develop it I may keep them only as layers. So far there are 3 that look like may be devloping it.. all look to be roosters. Only one is obviously developing it.. the others arent feathered as well so I will keep an eye on...

As chicks they look like they have a greyish down feathers and feather in a blueish grey color. Splash mated to black will yield black, blue, and splash chicks. If one is getting copper I would say they are both black copper. Some black copper hens can have very little copper in their hackles...

The lighter ones are splash marans and the blacks could be black coppers or just black marans.

Here are pics of one of the roos showing what looks like vulture hock. They are like 3 weeks old.

When is it safe to cull chicks for vulture hock? One line of chicks I am brooding have a heavy LP influence and Brenda Little discloses this as a recessive gene that has cropped up in her line. The breeder says he assumes this is why the vulture hock has showed up in my chicks. So far there...

Izzie is most definitely a pullet. Note the darker single barred feathers. ROos look lighter with a lot more white in their barring because they are double barred.

Looks like a clean legged Cuckoo Marans (not Maran :) ). Shes a cutie! Congrats on little Ping! This is what she will look like. :)

Thank you! :D

Cuckoo roo #1 Cuckoo roo #2 How are my boys looking so far? They are still young, around 4 months old. The roo in the second pic is more dominant and holds his tail higher. The roo in the first pic still holds his in a more submissive position for now. The more dominant roo just started...

I will defintely have to look them up. Thanks! I would love to see pics of yours if u have any handy. :)

That was my thought too. Now to convince my husband I need a $225 dozen of chicken eggs once my Sportsman comes in.. lol

Awesome! I think 5 is a good number of chicks from a dozen of shipped eggs. Would you recommend getting them direct from Brenda Little or go through someone who carries the line. I know Heaven sent ranch has LPs and her own signature line of HSR marans she calls them which is a line she has...

What line of Black Copper Marans do you all recommend? Im starting over with them and want good quality. Ive been looking at Heaven Sent Ranch and Little Peddlers Marans. Any suggestions?