Buff colored Cuckoo marans?

[JAK Rabbitry]

So my friend ordered some 'marans' eggs for me to hatch out...she sent me pics of them a few days before their hatch, and the eggs were a light cream color...nowhere near the color one would expect a marans egg to be. Anyways, 3 hatched....2 look like the darker cuckoo marans...and one is orange with some white striping, similar to the 'normal' looking marans.

I do believe I got gypped on the eggs, but i'm wondering did another breed get snuck in here or do I have something unusual on my hands? Little_Grey_Bantam said something about a rare color of marans that might fit this description.

Ideas?

 

[PotterWatch]

That chick has yellow legs and I am pretty sure that a marans of any color shouldn't have yellow legs.

 

[JAK Rabbitry]

Should we demand a refund? They sent 18 eggs, 4 came cracked, 3 hatched. MY friend usually has an 85-90% hatch rate and hatches a lot of birds, I dont think it was specifically her error in the hatching. They refunded her the 4 cracked eggs...but if they really d idn't send us what we ordered and bought and paid for....what's to be done? I forget the website/hatchery we ordered from but it wasn't very professional, they had a lot of odds and ends on there. I'm wondering if honestly we just got ripped off.

-JAK

 

[Break an Egg]

The two back ones with the white spot are probably the marans. The other eggs were something else, and I'm not sure what, hope this helps.

 

[JAK Rabbitry]

Well really all the eggs looked the same. They looked pretty much exactly like my gold comets' eggs. But of the 3 that hatched, only 2 even bear resemblence to a cuckoo maran. i'm just wondering that since the eggs were all so light, and we got this orange thing now...could we have gotten ripped off and these chicks are merely crosses and not purebreds?

-JAK

 

[Break an Egg]

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I would considering a few weren't even the breed specified. Unless your friend is a shady one.

 

[Break an Egg]

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I don't even think the yellow chicks are crosses. Your friend should have known that the light brown eggs were not marans eggs, then again she may have. The alarms going off for me with this one.

 

[JAK Rabbitry]

I dont see how my friend could have caused the incident, she is even the one who paid for the eggs. She doesn't even own any of her own chickens, she just hatches some eggs every year to give her children that experience, and wanted to know if I would take any of the birds, since I gave her a nice show rabbit last year.

-JAK

 

[JAK Rabbitry]

No, my friend has never heard of the breed, she just hatches for fun for her kids and she's a school teacher also. She would not have been able to identify the eggs and really wasn't able to. I hadn't even seen them until a few days before they were to hatch.

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Maybe it's a Wheaten Marans. Here's one of mine...

The legs are pretty yellow though. How are the legs on the Cuckoos?