Black copper marans gender help

[oregonkat]

Well, @Chickem707 I'd say he's all cockerel!! Sheesh those eyes!! If he was 6ft tall I wouldn't want to run into him in a dark alley unless he was on my side !!

 

[Chickem707]

Well, @Chickem707 I'd say he's all cockerel!! Sheesh those eyes!! If he was 6ft tall I wouldn't want to run into him in a dark alley unless he was on my side !!

I know right! Same height as my 2 month old cream legbars!

 

[Fanfoui]

Update!

So yeah 2 and 5 were definitely cockerels and I gave them away to a friend of mine at week 6.

All others I still have and are pullets! So I got 4 pullets out of 6 chicks. Pretty happy about it. I have put up a pic at week 7.

So now I have 2 that are entirely black, 1 is black/dark blue with copper hackle, and 1 is lighter blue with copper hackle. They are 7 weeks old.

My question would be which to keep if I keep only 2? Is that copper hackle a problem as far as standard?

Thanks all for the help!

 

[Fanfoui]

Black/Dark blue with copper hackle

 

[Hensndoes]

The copper is in the eye of the beholder. They are "copper marans" and should show some. It's a heavy amount of chest leakage that makes them require specific mates for breeding to SOP if that's your game. Yours are quite young yet and will change a bit as they grow up.