cuckoo maran chick question

[gapeachy]

are cuckoo maran chicks slow to feather? or maybe it is just mine...some of them got mixed in with the sexlinks and we could not tell them apart.....

 

[debilorrah]

I wish I knew

 

[FarmGirl01]

You should post some pics. i'm sure somebody could help you.

 

[gapeachy]

see it still has fuzz and it is 2 or 3 weeks....I cant remember all the dates on these...

 

[FarmGirl01]

These are my Marans. They are 2 weeks old. This was there first day in the new house.

 

[gapeachy]

does mine look like a cuckoo maran?....my friend brought them back from chattanooga for me and put them in with her black sex link the same age and we had a hard time telling them apart....I was waiting to see the barred ....the sexlinks wont have barred....

 

[KattyKillFish]

well, they look just like my cuckoo marans did, and from my experience the do take a bit longer to get their mature feathers. mine took almost a month as well, and they turned out to be great layers of chocolate brown eggs!
cuckoo marans also tend to be a bit heavier than the sex links. best wishes!

 

[TammyTX]

Mine just turned 3 weeks on Saturday. I thought mine feathered pretty quickly....

 

[KattyKillFish]

maybe it depends on where you get them, and who the breeder is?
i got mine from Murray McMurray. where did you guys get yours?

 

[gapeachy]

I got mine from a local breeder and I know what she had was cuckoo marans I just did not know about them getting mixed in with the sexlinks....they all looked alike.....but as far as them feathering out they are later than my other chicks.....