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Does anyone know how to tell the difference between cocks and hens at 6ish week old please i have an sort of idea just need confirming oh and there copper black and copper blue :-)
 
Start looking for a difference in the combs. Roos will have them much before pullets. Also the roos will color in at the hackles much before pullets. Ever now and then you will have submissive roos who don't show much roo characteristics but if you take out the dominant roos,the others will evolve.
When in doubt, time will tell.
I think you can tell sex with marans a lot sooner than with some other breeds.
 
I have cuckoo marans so don't know whether this will help, but I noticed at around 5 weeks old that one was noticeably lighter than the others. Also, that lighter one had comb and wattles coming in and they were pinkish compared to the pale no-comb no-wattles on the others. Here's pic of him next to a cuckoo marans pullet (with EE looking on, of course
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), probably around 6-7 weeks old:
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Hope this helps -
 
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Sorry - cockerel is on the left
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Gotta say that when I got him, I thought he was a she so called 'her' Emmy...
 
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I guess he is now Emilio or Emmitt;)

I thought of those but ultimately went with Rocky - it just seemed to fit
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