Male or female

[savvychickz]

Not too sure on the breed either, it has puffy Easter egger like cheeks though.

 

[Folly's place]

It's a male, and with some feathering on the legs, a French Marans or mix.
Mary

 

[Folly's place]

Look at the Black Copper French Marans cockerel pictures!
Mary

 

[savvychickz]

Look at the Black Copper French Marans cockerel pictures!
Mary

Is he mixed than? Because he does have quite some puffy cheeks!

 

[sourland]

Very likely an olive egger cockerel

 

[Folly's place]

Probably. Feathering on legs will show up in mixes if one parent has it. He's very handsome!
Mary
I had some Marans x EE mixes a few years ago, and a couple of them looked just like this guy!

 

[Norcal527]

I second olive egger cockerel...maransxeaster egger

 

[savvychickz]

My roo and hen ratio isn’t doing very good, currently have 6 maybe cockerels and 2 roosters.

 

[Norcal527]

My roo and hen ratio isn’t doing very good, currently have 6 maybe cockerels and 2 roosters.

How many hens? If you want to keep them you can run the males together in a bachelor pen. I can never cull a bird as they're pets to me so I keep a lot of males. If there are problems they will go to a bachelor pad.

 

[savvychickz]

How many hens? If you want to keep them you can run the males together in a bachelor pen. I can never cull a bird as they're pets to me so I keep a lot of males. If there are problems they will go to a bachelor pad.

I have approximately 21 hens, 5 of my cockerels haven’t started mating yet and they all get along.