cuckoo maran chick

[Hensndoes]

he is a cuckoo marans but I forgot to say he's not purbreed, I was just trying to get a olive egger, his mom is a blue egg layer and she has a yellow legs, I don't know what breeds she is, but I was told that she was probably an easter egger, his dad is a cuckoo marans rooster
sorry about that, I thought I had wrote that in there but I can see it now that I forgot it, but yeah he's and olive egger (mix of maran and blue egg layer)

Some helpful info there. So he is not a cuckoo marans. He is a mix. If mom was a blue egg layer with yellow legs then she could have been a cream legbar. When bred with a marans the offspring would be olive eggers (as you wished for). The chicks would be sexlinked meaning you can tell the boys from the girls. The boys would have a white spot at hatch and develop barring as they feathered in (like yours). If that is the case and you had any hopes for a pullet you were duped.

Edit: still doesn't make sense. Yellow is recessive. So a roo with yellow legs over a hen with white would not make yellow legs right? Meaning barred rock not cuckoo

 

[drumstick diva]

Barred Rock

 

[Crazy for Chickens!]

Barred Rock

They said it was a mix, trying to get olive Eggers.

 

[sóley]

he's probably a rooster like all of you said, but someone asked for a better picture, this picture isn't maybe great, but I was trying to take a picture and he wound stop moving so this was the best picture I got of him to day.

 

[sóley]

yeah this is a rooster.... it's true, I heard a new crow this morning (I know all my roosters crows and this morning I heard a new crow that was not from them, and sounded like from a chick) I thought 9 week old where to young to start crowing?

but I don't know, I just know it's from him because he's my only chick that I have now, he was the only egg that hatch out.

but now I sure he's a rooster because of the crow I heard, I was so hoping this where a hen but okey :/

 

[sóley]

now that I know he's a rooster I'm just curious what it was that you saw in the picture that he was a rooster?
is there any easy way to she it? was it the comb or the wattles (I know the wattles are small but I don't know if a 8-9 week old would have a wattle on this age) I know he's a rooster now but I just wan't to know how you saw it on the pictures?

just asking so I know in the future what the trick is to see so early on if it's a rooster or a hen, because I'm going to hatch out some purbreed cuckoo maran in the sumer and it would be nice to know what the trick is so I could juse it in the future

any way thanks for the help of seeing what gender he is

 

[Gray Farms]

Comb and wattle development and redness combined with age. Age is the big factor. If it has significant comb and wattle growth and starting to get fairly red at just 8-9 weeks of age. There is a very good chance its a cockerel. Not 100% accurate realize but you can usually bet on it.