Bi- something or rather? What breed is this?

[janiedoe]

Cuckoo marans cross. So cute!

 

[Folly's place]

Your cockerel has yellow legs, so not the same, but handsome!
Mary

 

[ColtHandorf]

Yes, to the point of feathered legs, The English Standard calls for clean legs while the French Standard calls for feathered legs. When Marans were first imported and gained in popularity both clean and feathered legs were available. Hatchery quality birds are still generally clean legged.

 

[ColtHandorf]

Yours is close, but not the same cross due to the yellow legs (skin). Possibly he has Barred Rock in his parentage.

 

[Kris5902]

So ... the original owner doesn't know what they are, but knows that they are not part CCL? Hmmm. Iiiiinteresting! (I love a good mystery, lol!)

I’m sure the breeder knows what they are, but the person who bought them for the farm sure doesn’t! I was thinking Olive egger too, but she insists that they are going to lay brown... I want to sneak one of my Olive egger boys down for a quick visit to see what I would get!

As far as the "bi" thing goes, my assumption is that the person thought (incorrectly so) that they were Bielefelder

That’s what I was thinking too, but they look entirely different!

I hatched a little cockerel from some “barnyard mix” eggs that I ordered to try out my first incubator who looks like these “bi—“ birdies:

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He’s small compared to his other male hatch mates. Same thing?

The girls here also look to be a bit heavier bodied, and more grey/black vs your boys white/black.

As an aside... the leg feathering in the line of Marans I’ve got, and that produced the OE boy I’ve bred to some standard layers, seems pretty dominant. The 1/4 Marans chicks show fairly solid leg and foot feathering in about 35% of the chicks. More than received daddy’s pea comb and cheek puffs!

 

[CindyinSD]

Thanks everyone. I need to become more observant. I don’t automatically look at things like leg, earlobe color. Ya’ll are seriously good at this. Maybe one day...

grey/black vs your boys white/black.

My little guy (Ruffio cause he’s kind of a ruffian, which is why he landed with the bigger birds) is actually gray and white. I tried to get the colors right but I have limited software for that. I love his crooked little comb.

 

[ColtHandorf]

The reason for the light versus dark has to do with gender. He has a double dose, so two copies of the barring gene which makes his barring appear lighter and more defined. Females only carry one copy of the barring gene, so they are darker. You see it all the time in Dominiques and Barred Rocks.

 

[CindyinSD]

The reason for the light versus dark has to do with gender. He has a double dose, so two copies of the barring gene which makes his barring appear lighter and more defined. Females only carry one copy of the barring gene, so they are darker. You see it all the time in Dominiques and Barred Rocks.

Interesting. Hopefully I can remember that.

 

[Ribh]

I have no idea ~ though @ a guess I would think some barred rock in there somewhere. Gorgeous birds.

 

[BlueBaby]

@Kris5902 I'm not sure of what all it could be mixed with, but the Crested Cream Legbar crest there is obvious. I have been mixing some of my CCLB's into my NN's to be able to start up a pen that will be a blue/green egg laying NN. That crest pop's up in my hatchling's of those.