So it's possible that if I have a chick and the chick has NO spot on it's head, it could still be a marans, right?
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So it's possible that if I have a chick and the chick has NO spot on it's head, it could still be a marans, right?
All barred chicks have a head spot, regardless of gender. Some are VERY small, but they are there.I know barred better than cuckoo, but you would get females with no head spot if you breed a non-cuckoo/non-barred rooster over a cuckoo hen. So if you bred a Black Copper Marans roo and a Cuckoo Marans hen, you would get sex-linked Marans offspring, females with no spot and males with a large spot. So yes, you can have a Marans with no spot and it can have a cuckoo mother (but would have to have a father that wasn't a cuckoo Marans). My understanding (based on barring, but I think cuckoo should be the same) is that the offspring of two cuckoo parents should always have a spot.
Looks like a cockerel to me, and not a Cuckoo marans.
Im curious, did this chick turn out to be a male? I have a little chick that looks a lot like this one, almost all black with the white dot. Cant tell if its a barred rock, dominique or maran... At two weeks he/she is standing up like a rooster whereas the rest of my baby flock (of different breeds) has a more "feminine" decorum. Just curious...Hello everyone,
I recently incubated 12 eggs, 6 Silkie and 6 Cuckoo Maran. Just my luck, only one hatched. I now have one lonely Cuckoo Maran chick with only me to look after her.
Anyway, the only thing that could make this any worse would be if this one chick is a cockerel.
So, I've added a few photos can anyone say what gender this lone chick is.
Thanks
Cuckoo Marans are one of the 2 varieties of Marans that can be sexed at hatch, boys will have a white spot on the head like this male chick does and girls do not have the spot. Hope this helps. Congrats on your hatch.