Are these all Cuckoo Marans?

[Laurie4]

That's all girl, all the way. At 17 weeks a cockerel would have a huge comb, thick legs, and you'd have all the fancy tail feathers to boot. Might be a mix of breeds but definitely a girl.

Edited to add: I have a couple offspring that feathered out like that - not sure why either. Could be a function of the possible mixed breed side effect.

Thank you! Yay! (Only have 4 so I wanted girls).

 

[floppysquirrel04]

Here's a side view. It's a little blurred. I'm not sure why she/he has such long feathers on the sides.

Body looks like a pullet, but coloring almost looks like a male black sex link

 

[Laurie4]

Body looks like a pullet, but coloring almost looks like a male black sex link

Wow. But this one is the same age as the others and has the least developed comb/wattle. Thanks. Will be interesting to see how this turns out!

 

[RoostersAreAwesome]

The lighter one is probably a cuckoo marans hybrid intentionally created by the hatchery.

 

[Laurie4]

The lighter one is probably a cuckoo marans hybrid intentionally created by the hatchery.

Oh! Well, she's laying speckled eggs! Dark brown spots on light brown eggs.

 

[Laurie4]

Have you taken them to their shrink to see if they are crazy! Like Me ! All joking aside they look like normal hatchery Cuckoo Marans . I raise Wheaten French Marans and I like this breed from Bev Davis line . They are nice looking birds that you have there ,even if they turned out to be barred rocks they are good layers also and I like them ,

Yes! She is probably part barred rock, part marans, but interestingly, she laid a couple of speckled eggs! dark brown spots on light brown egg. very pretty.