Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

[Lolita]

Are these chicks Blue or Cuckoo?

 

[geebs]

No idea... I have never had that color chick before...Maybe blue cuckoo???? sure are cute

 

[pinkchick]

Lolita~

I vote Cuckoo because of the headspots.

Blues and Blue Coppers should not have the white spot on the head. They should have all blue heads with some white fluff or not around the face. It has been my experience that the babies that are just blues do not show any white on their faces and that the blue coppers show some white just like the black coppers as chicks.

 

[Lotsapaints]

I've just started to learn Bird color genetics I have all the horse ones down and right now I'm just concentrating on the color genes for the ones I raise...My problem is finding stock that people have really worked with not just propagated and maybe they could have raised better colored birds by trying to learn the color genetics I don't know. I am trying for type first egg and meat production next I think getting perfect color is like icing I really like my sweets

 

[drom]

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I pulled up the APA Brown-red standard and you are right they sure couldn't have used that. It calls for lemon colored hackles and dark eyes. That explains why one of the MCC drafts for the proposed standard mentioned lemon colored hackles at one point.

Now I know the MCF standard is Brown-red but obviously doesn't call for gold hackles. However, it sounds like Brown-red is technically Gold-necked Birchen with mh+mh+ gene.
Maybe Brown-red it is just slightly different in the French poultry standards.

 

[kathyinmo]

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And what do you see on those headspots? I could be wrong, but I believe that 3rd picture of the heads is 3 males.

 

[pinkchick]

That is what I was going to say but I didn't want to be the one who told her!

 

[kathyinmo]

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[pinkchick]

Oh and by the way Lolita.....they are all blue in color.

 

[Lolita]

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Ok thanks you 2, how does Cuckoo come about again?