Is this my cuckoo maran rooster? Or a California gray?

[Party_Chicken]

I have a few olive eggers , same age and they do not look like this. They all have puffy cheeks and other colorations. I did get several cuckoo Marana and ive heard the hens are darker than the cocks… so rather confusing.

Olive eggers come in many colors an olive egger is a blue egg layer over a brown egg layer that can give you many colors they could have muffs, beards, and featherd feet. You bird is a cuckoo marans x creasted cream Legbar

 

[janiedoe]

I have a few olive eggers , same age and they do not look like this. They all have puffy cheeks and other colorations. I did get several cuckoo Marana and ive heard the hens are darker than the cocks… so rather confusing.

Olive eggers, like Easter eggers are not a "real" breed. They can be made up of any number of breeds so they don't all have puffy cheeks or the same color feathers.

 

[magentaraven]

Welcome! So glad to have you!

First picture is an Olive Egger pullet, and the second picture is a Cuckoo Maran cockerel.

Olive edgers have green legs. This one has gray pink legs. No puffy cheeks.

 

[magentaraven]

Olive eggers come in many colors an olive egger is a blue egg layer over a brown egg layer that can give you many colors they could have muffs, beards, and featherd feet. You bird is a cuckoo marans x creasted cream Legbar

That makes the most sense so far. Thanks!

 

[janiedoe]

Olive edgers have green legs. This one has gray pink legs. No puffy cheeks.

Again, they can have any colored skin, any colored feathers, puffy or not puffy cheeks, crests or not. Feathered feet, non feathered, etc.
All 3 of these girls are easter eggers. They have the same father (an easter egger) from whom they inherited the blue egg gene, they all lay blue and green eggs. They all have feathered feet, they have yellow legs, none have puffy cheeks, one has a crest from her legbar mother. All come from different breed mothers.
They all look different but all carry that blue egg gene.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Olive edgers have green legs. This one has gray pink legs. No puffy cheeks.

They can have any color legs and don’t have to have puffy cheeks. They are mixes. Also, she cannot be a pure Marans as they do not have crests. She does. However, I do agree that she’s likely a Marans x Legbar mix.

 

[magentaraven]

Again, they can have any colored skin, any colored feathers, puffy or not puffy cheeks, crests or not. Feathered feet, non feathered, etc.
All 3 of these girls are easter eggers. They have the same father (an easter egger) from whom they inherited the blue egg gene, they all lay blue and green eggs. They all have feathered feet, they have yellow legs, none have puffy cheeks, one has a crest from her legbar mother. All come from different breed mothers.
They all look different but all carry that blue egg gene.
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Well, I know how many Olive eggers I purchased and the others were Marans and California grays. So what you’re sayin may be true but the dark hen is not an olive egger, that much I’m certain. thanks for trying to help. So,wine else in this thread thinks they’re marans x crested leg bars… the feed place I got them from is reputable and tHwy got them from privet hatchery in New Mexico.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Well, I know how many Olive eggers I purchased and the others were Marans and California grays. So what you’re sayin may be true but the dark hen is not an olive egger, that much I’m certain. thanks for trying to help. So,wine else in this thread thinks they’re marans x crested leg bars… the feed place I got them from is reputable and tHwy got them from privet hatchery in New Mexico.

Marans x Legbar is an Olive Egger and hatcheries include extras all the time. She cannot be any of those other breeds because she has a crest.

 

[Party_Chicken]

Well, I know how many Olive eggers I purchased and the others were Marans and California grays. So what you’re sayin may be true but the dark hen is not an olive egger, that much I’m certain. thanks for trying to help. So,wine else in this thread thinks they’re marans x crested leg bars… the feed place I got them from is reputable and tHwy got them from privet hatchery in New Mexico.

If you are confused about olive eggers I would definitely go check out silver homestead. Here is one of there charts say the blue roo is a creasted cream Legbar and the speckled brown layer is the cuckoo marans there offspring will lay the color egg next to the hen.