Cuckoo marans X Araucana 7 weeks old...what sex?

[purplesquirrel]

So here we are again...do my eyes deceive me as I pray that it is a pullet and not a roo?..

The cockerels were; cuckoo marans & black rocks
The hens; RIR, Cuckoo marans, Copper marans, Araucana, leghorn/Minorca


It is definitely a cuckoo maran of some sort. At first I thought it was PURE cuckoo marans but I noticed it has a pea or rose comb, hinting at an Araucana cross.
There was a blue/green egg in the incubator but a lot of the eggs hatched over night so I wasn't sure who came out of it.
By colouration alone, if it were a pure cuckoo marans I assume it would be male from the ratio of white flecks, but if crossed with an Araucana I assume this is no longer the rule?
I am unsure of the colour of the Araucana hens.


So, firstly am I right about the cross? And the bigger question, IS IT A BOY OR A GIRL?!
There is a pink tinge to the super small wattles and comb, and it often fades back to almost white skin.

I took these photos today

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

Right now, it doesn't look like a cockerel. If it was pure bred I would say boy. It is young, so this could change.

 

[RhodeRunner]

I pretty much agree with everything your are thinking...but hoping against.

It should be a cockerel. With barring/cuckoo the males have larger white barring and lighter colored legs. Females should have darker barring and legs.

It has a pea comb. The Araucana is the only pea combed fowl you listed. So, the mother would have to be an Araucana.

 

[JennyHeidewald]

I know this is a few years back, I do wish you'd follow up with the outcomes. *lol*
With a cuckoo marans roo x aruacana hen, this should have ended up being a hen. If the chick looks like the roo it is a hen, if the chick looks like the hen it is a roo. Though I am sure there are exceptions. I am playing guessing games with a current barnyard batch which is how I came across your thread.

 

[Painted Calls]

I know this is a few years back, I do wish you'd follow up with the outcomes. *lol*
With a cuckoo marans roo x aruacana hen, this should have ended up being a hen. If the chick looks like the roo it is a hen, if the chick looks like the hen it is a roo. Though I am sure there are exceptions. I am playing guessing games with a current barnyard batch which is how I came across your thread.

Actually that's backwards. If the hen was a CM, and the rooster was a solid color, then they would be sexlinked.

 

[JennyHeidewald]

Actually that's backwards. If the hen was a CM, and the rooster was a solid color, then they would be sexlinked.

Dang, everytime I think I got it figured out... *haha*
*goes to research more*
Ok, yes. So for black sex-links, the barring gene is in the male so they cross, "a Barred Plymouth Rock hen and a Rhode Island Red or New Hampshire Red rooster. Barring genes were present over the male one, not on a female."
Somehow that was all I retained from my genetic research a few years back, that the males will look like females color and the females will look like the males color. I was working making olive eggers.
I'm glad I included the disclaimer "I am sure there are exceptions. "

So maybe my chick is a ...something. Lots of different genetics in the line now.