Does anyone know what breed these 2 hens are? Golden Cuckoo Marans!!??

[SarahIrl]

Lovely colouring, but NO idea what they are!!!

 

[goldeneggtees]

Sorry! I can't help, but they are beautiful birds!

 

[Brown Farmer]

They look like a rumpless cross, possibly Araucauna. You will have to clip their tails (quite painless) if you want them to breed naturally. The "birds of a feather cling together" is natural in many species. I have seen goats having twins taking after 2 different breeds reject the one that is not like her. However, when a doe resents another doe's kid stealing a feed, she will butt it or chew its ears. W hen she rejects her own kid, she will not attack it but walk away from it.
Sometimes strange things come together. I had a chicken hen and a guinea hen team up. Every morning they would take a stroll together from the barn behind the home, past the home, up the driveway and back.

 

[FarmGirl01]

Rumpless crosses is a good idea. They are pretty.

 

[tellynpeep]

White earlobes? Norwegian Jaerhons??

 

[reesepoultry]

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Possibly, They look just like them.

 

[reesepoultry]

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I looked at them this morning while they were walking around and the tail is upright instead of hanging down like in their roosting pic. I hope they aren't roos...

....the majority of eggs that hatched are roos. I'm going to be doing quite a bit of weeding out, pretty soon. Anybody in MA interested in some of PEACHICK'S Solid Blue Maran cockerels---15 wks old) (eggs won in one of her auctions)? I have several blacks, one blue and one splash---free to a good home (preferably free ranging because that is what they are used to).

What color of peachicks do you have?

 

[goldnchocolate]

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I looked at them this morning while they were walking around and the tail is upright instead of hanging down like in their roosting pic. I hope they aren't roos...

....the majority of eggs that hatched are roos. I'm going to be doing quite a bit of weeding out, pretty soon. Anybody in MA interested in some of PEACHICK'S Solid Blue Maran cockerels---15 wks old) (eggs won in one of her auctions)? I have several blacks, one blue and one splash---free to a good home (preferably free ranging because that is what they are used to).

What color of peachicks do you have?

No, I don't have 'peachicks' -- I have some 'chicken-chicks' that hatched from BYC member "Peachick"'s eggs that I bought. I have a Blue Maran, a Splash Maran and a Black Maran that all came from a Solid Blue Cross. I don't understand it (genetics) very well but her chickens were mentioned in the article on chocolate egg layers that was in this past issue of the magazine Back Yard Poultry. These 3 cockerels are available to a good home if anyone is interested. I'm in Central MA.

Here is the Splash cockerel (they are approx 15 weeks old):

Here is the darker of the 2 blue cockerels:

And here is the black/blue cockerel out of the same hatch:

 

[greenfamilyfarms]

Crele Phoenix? Look at the way their tails have that flow-y look to them.

 

[reesepoultry]

sorry I misread it....