Earning Their Keep

[Fairview01]

3 cuckoos, I have 3 barred hens.
No idea what the all black one is, either. But she lays the darkest color out of these eggs:
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Definitely not a welsummer. As far as dark eggs go they are the only ones that come to my mind that can compete with marans egg color. May be a black copper marans.

Do any of them have feathered shanks.

 

[Welshies]

Definitely not a welsummer. As far as dark eggs go they are the only ones that come to my mind that can compete with marans egg color. May be a black copper marans.

Do any of them have feathered shanks.

Never thought they were a welsummer.
I'd say black copper maran.
And no.

 

[TheKindaFarmGal]

I see a crest on the black hen, and with her body type I'm gonna say silkie mix. Maybe silkie X marans?

 

[Welshies]

I see a crest on the black hen, and with her body type I'm gonna say silkie mix. Maybe silkie X marans?

Possibly- she does lay the darkest egg color. She's also a reliable broody.