8 week old Marans- gender and color??

[laurenlulu]

I'll try to upload a better picture, it takes forever on my computer for some reason.

She (I hope) hatched out of a dark Marans egg, supposed to be black copper, but his color is strange- he is striped with black and copper all over. I have one other chick that hatched, she is all black with just a little copper around her neck, and her comb is slightly smaller and her wattles are slightly less developed. Also, she is feathering in better than him, but I feel like he's got way more feathers than my older Marans had at the same age. From the beginning I had it in my mind that he was the boy and the other was the girl, but now I'm wondering??

 

[kryptoniteqhs]

ok yes...very strange.......i hatched out this thing myself and it came out of a nice dark marans egg......maybe it got confused as to whether it wanted to be a cuckoo or black copper.......so it became a copper cuckoo??? idk....hopefully he/she makes up its mind soon.....(and that its decision is copper!).

 

[walkswithdog]

Lil bugger looks to be going cuckoo. Gold cuckoo. And if you can't use a him or her gold cuckoo, I'm right down here in TN.......

 

[Rockpile99]

Very gorgeous, but doesn't seem to have much feathering for an 8 week old.

My cuckoo marans are now 9 weeks and have waaay more feathers, even the cockerel that started crowing last week.

 

[ve]

It is Black Coper Marans girl.We stil do not have standart for Marans and many times black-copers come in this patern with to much red

 

[laurenlulu]

all I took from those responses was GIRL

Just kidding- thanks for responding... so you think it is just a non "standard" black copper color? I looked up golden cuckoos and they seem to be lighter- these are really dark coppery lines. "She" is getting copper feathering on the back of her neck and her head is solid black.