Let's talk Cuckoo and WHITE marans... breeding strategies...

[OHmamma]

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I would need to see headsots to tell but they look "hennish" to me. Are all six Marans? the one in the back/middle looks different.

Look what I found in my cucu pen today.....

poor old girl she was upset at me for moving her to a new pen she wouldn't lay for three days and escaped last night and returned to her old pen to lay this whopper. I just can't figure out how she managed to get out of and into two different shut pens.

Ms.Broody cucu hatched out a little siver boy today. Yay me another roo! I let her set six she hatched four and three are roos. One looks wheaten?? How did that happen?? Maybe I put someone else's egg under her hopefully tomorrow I can peel her out of there and see the egg shells again.

 

[HenThymes]

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I would need to see headsots to tell but they look "hennish" to me. Are all six Marans? the one in the back/middle looks different.

Look what I found in my cucu pen today.....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/49750_jumbo.jpg

poor old girl she was upset at me for moving her to a new pen she wouldn't lay for three days and escaped last night and returned to her old pen to lay this whopper. I just can't figure out how she managed to get out of and into two different shut pens.

Ms.Broody cucu hatched out a little siver boy today. Yay me another roo! I let her set six she hatched four and three are roos. One looks wheaten?? How did that happen?? Maybe I put someone else's egg under her hopefully tomorrow I can peel her out of there and see the egg shells again.

If you find an answer to that let me know, I have a nice wheaten cockerel that is straight from a gold cuckoo hatch (no wheaten's in the group) from last winter. He is just turning 6 months old.

 

[Chickndaddy]

Looks like five Cuckoo Marans pullets and one Silver-laced Wyandotte cockerel.

 

[VillageChicken]

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One of those five CM pullets has yellow legs.

 

[SonRise Silkies]

Thank You very much village chicken, you answered just what I wanted to know.
I prefer my lighter roo to the dark anyhow.
And the leg feathers are as you describe.
I took some pic yesterday but never got time to add them.
Thanks everyone for all the great info and beautiful pictures.
I'm anxious for my first eggs!!!

 

[VillageChicken]

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I would need to see headsots to tell but they look "hennish" to me. Are all six Marans? the one in the back/middle looks different.

Look what I found in my cucu pen today.....

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/49750_jumbo.jpg

poor old girl she was upset at me for moving her to a new pen she wouldn't lay for three days and escaped last night and returned to her old pen to lay this whopper. I just can't figure out how she managed to get out of and into two different shut pens.

Ms.Broody cucu hatched out a little siver boy today. Yay me another roo! I let her set six she hatched four and three are roos. One looks wheaten?? How did that happen?? Maybe I put someone else's egg under her hopefully tomorrow I can peel her out of there and see the egg shells again.

If you find an answer to that let me know, I have a nice wheaten cockerel that is straight from a gold cuckoo hatch (no wheaten's in the group) from last winter. He is just turning 6 months old.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/49849_dsc05328.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/49849_dsc05333.jpg

Wheaten hides in silver and golden cuckoo very easily. Crossing a Wheaten roo to a silver cuckoo hen creates golden cuckoo offspring. They and their offspring will carry wheaten for potentially many generations. Any crosses between these offspring can result in a wheaten.

 

[OHmamma]

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One of those five CM pullets has yellow legs.

I noticed that too. hmmmmmm.

HenThymes~ I hope my little fella ends up looking that nice if he is a Wheaten!! I don't care much for the color of the Wheaten hens but I love the roos. Another odd thing I have pop out once in a while is Banty sized Marans

Does anyone else have Banty Marans? I have one roo right now. I think there are a couple in the brooder too. I don't understand where they come from but I know it is a cross of my WJ BCM.

This is "StinkEye" His mom was a blue/cucu BD hen. He even has featherd shanks which none of the other banties I have seen have.

 

[HenThymes]

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One of those five CM pullets has yellow legs.

I noticed that too. hmmmmmm.

HenThymes~ I hope my little fella ends up looking that nice if he is a Wheaten!! I don't care much for the color of the Wheaten hens but I love the roos. Another odd thing I have pop out once in a while is Banty sized Marans

Does anyone else have Banty Marans? I have one roo right now. I think there are a couple in the brooder too. I don't understand where they come from but I know it is a cross of my WJ BCM.

This is "StinkEye" His mom was a blue/cucu BD hen. He even has featherd shanks which none of the other banties I have seen have.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/49750_stnki.jpg

I actually have some of those too. They are still too young to tell who is what yet being 4-5 weeks old. Till yesterday morning I had 8, two very oddly died for no appearant reason yesterday morning. They are still in a brooder in my laundry room and not exposed to anyone else so not sure what exactly happen or why or it's genetic related that they are bantams?? I am treating though just in case. I have never had this happen before.

I have mostly cuckoo and maybe a black or two in the group, most are clean legged, think there is one cuckoo with feather legs, not sure how they will finish out but looking forward to them.

ps- thank you for the compliment on my wheaten cockerel.

 

[oesdog]

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Ooooooooh this thread is good I have to read it all so I will take a while to catch up. I have a cuckoo Maran called Gerty- used to have two cuckoo Maran roo boys too but I had to get rid because the neighbors compain about the noise. I sooooooooooo miss them. I love the pics My two male chicks looked just like the one facing the cam in the first pic. We called one of ours Duck because he sooo looked like one of the neighbors baby Mallard chicks!!! Great to have a thread about the cuckoo Marans.

I love the really dark brown eggs however my girl has NEVER EVER laid that colour only eggs that look no different to me RIR/PR -

Here is my girl Gerty

Duck one of my roo boys

And Duck as a baby Mallard !!!

The one we had issues with was this one Omlet

It looked nothing like the other Chick Duck - but it also turned into a Rooboy Cuckoo Maran
Odd we called it the He /she bird as it squat like a girl and then at 7 months decided to crow like a boy?
All grown up Omlet - were convinced she started female and went male!!!!!

Oesdog

 

[PHarris985]

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If you find an answer to that let me know, I have a nice wheaten cockerel that is straight from a gold cuckoo hatch (no wheaten's in the group) from last winter. He is just turning 6 months old.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/49849_dsc05328.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/49849_dsc05333.jpg

Wheaten hides in silver and golden cuckoo very easily. Crossing a Wheaten roo to a silver cuckoo hen creates golden cuckoo offspring. They and their offspring will carry wheaten for potentially many generations. Any crosses between these offspring can result in a wheaten.

Your right about the leg color. I didn't think of that, I'm new to raising chickens. When I got the Cuckoo's I was told they were all Cuckoo's. I always noticed one looked different but I thought maybe the Cuckoo Roo looks different. I was hoping for one Cuckoo Roo. I shall go take a better picture of them and post it today. Thank you for helping. This thread and you are very knowledgeable.