Cuckoo Maran rooster?

[speckledhen]

Thank you! If your Rocky is as good natured as Rex is, he'll be a treasure.

 

[rancher hicks]

I have a Birchen Marans rooster in with some BR hens. A rooster from that cross had the Cuckoo pattern. I'd say yours is a cross of some kind, but neither pure BR or CM.

 

[Michael OShay]

Yep, not a BR nor a CM, at least not pure. This rooster of mine was similar to yours with the "blonde" you are showing as well as some reddish streaks. He is 1/2 Delaware and 1/2 Something else that wasn't barred-barring came from the Delaware. So, your doesn't have to be a sex link, specifically, just a cross whose one parent passed on a barring gene.

X2 on speckledhen's observation.

 

[lethalfire]

Thanks everyone, I will have to take pictures as he continues to get old and keep everyone updated on how he turns out. I first noticed it with just a couple feathers on the back of his neck from a glance it looked like maybe he got in a fight with something and was missing some feathers. As I got closer I noticed they were actually yellow or blonde colored feathers and he has been getting more and more since then.

I like color so it's all good for me in the long run lol, as long as he stays nice! I won't put up with no mean roo's lol.

 

[11mini]

Does he look like this?

I am being told this is a CM rooster
(I hope not, I wanted a BR hen)

 

[lethalfire]

The feet and legs of mine are a dark yellow. He is barred like that except starting to get blonde feathers by his hocks and by part of his wings. He does have some of that blue/green that is one of your pics only his is more blue.

Here is another picture but still doesn't show the blue part.

 

[speckledhen]

Does he look like this?

I am being told this is a CM rooster
(I hope not, I wanted a BR hen)

 

[donrae]

It is interesting to see how the leakage grows as the bird ages. I've had a bsl rooster that must have had glw in his heritage, he had a few perfectly colored gold laced feathers crop up after a year old.

 

[BantamLover21]

Looks like a Black Sex-link rooster to me, too.

 

[lethalfire]

finally got a picture of some of the blue by his wings this morning.