is it still a marans?

[onthespot]

If my barred EE was covered by a Copper Black Marans, and the chick was hatched that TOTALLY LOOKED like a feather legged copper black marans, and if it laid a brown egg that was at least a four, would it be a marans?

 

[Hangin Wit My Peeps]

Good question. My guess would be it would be considered a mix but I don't know much about this sort of thing. Mainly givin a bump to see if you can get an answer.

 

[Katy]

Does your EE lay a blue or green egg? I've always been told the offspring of a blue egg layer and a Marans will lay an olive egg. So if that's true, it couldn't be called a Marans.

 

[onthespot]

my barred EE lays a green egg, but from what I understand, each chick only has a fifty fifty chance that she would pass on the blue/green gene, and the other half of the chicks will lay only varying shades of brown, unless I had an EE roo to put with her, which I do not. If it is solid black, (whether or not it has copper hackles) I think it would not carry to barred gene, therefore it couldn't have throwback babies, and the mama does not have yellow in her legs, so... There should be no genes that are bad for marans, unless maybe it gets a beard. didn't think of that!

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

It could not be called a Maran. Breeds are defined by the way they look and their genetics.

 

[Katy]

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Marans are also defined by the darkness of their egg color.

 

[ginasmarans]

It would be a mixed breed chick.

 

[chicken_boy_Kurt]

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Marans are also defined by the darkness of their egg color.

But that is a gebetic/breed trait.

 

[tazcat70]

It would be a mixed breed chick, but could you imagine entering it into a show.......


Heck we had some EE at the state fair that won Aracauna class....there were not true Aracauna's entered.

 

[Guitartists]

It also has to breed true a certain percentage...... If it looked like a Marans, laid an egg like a Marans and bred true like a Marans.. AND you didn;t KNOW if it was 100% Marans... then maybe. But being that you know that it is indeed half EE and that the EE was not added to the bloodlines to improve a Marans trait... then no. It would not be a Marans.