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

[Lolita]

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I actually would not mind letting you snatch one

but that's a long way to sneak!

 

[tm7906]

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My french blue splash are supposed to pure bred (I hatched out shipped eggs from Arkansas) as are the black coppers but who knows before I hatched mine. I don' have any other type of chicken on my place and none of the neighbors have any chickens. I am baffled about them. I don't know very much about genetics but can see where the other colors come from just not the brown striped.

 

[pinkchick]

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Yep....Chipmunkie alright.........................hmmmmmmm??????????????????? My guess is someone was sneaking around in wood pile, but it sure is a cute little bugger.

Congrats on the hatch!

Edited because I just read you last post. Possible recessive kick back?

 

[tm7906]

Pink,
Idon't think anyone was sneaking around the wood pile but there is 2 of them colored like that. Yeah they sure are cute. Maybe when they grow up they will change colors to wheaten, I don't know. Maybe in previous generations there was some cross breeding before I got my eggs.

 

[pinkchick]

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Wheatens are not colored like that they are completely yellow upon hatch.

My guess is that it is a recessive thing that has just popped up. There is not a variety of Marans that would produce babies like these.

Watch them grow up a bit and post more photos of them to get opinions as to what could have been sneaking around in the family tree. They will probably grow up to be beautiful dark egg laying birds you can toss in the laying flock for eating eggs.

 

[aalbury]

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It looks like a golden cuckoo chick.....?? Where'd you get your BCs? BCs are used for creating Golden Cuckoos. You might check to see if they (the breeder of your hens and roos) carries cuckoos.

 

[pinkchick]

Tim~

Do you know if they hatched from the Splash eggs or the Black Coppers?

 

[pinkchick]

aalbury may be on to something here.....I forgot about the golden cuckoos.


Tim can you post a couple more photos of the chicks in question? Do these chicks have an obvious strip down the back with lighter creamy colored strips off to either side of the dark strip?


Here is a link and it has some photos of Golden Cuckoo chicks.......do they look like this?

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=2203513#p2203513

 

[aalbury]

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The only thing is that cuckoo is supposed to be dominant....??? isn't it? Could it hide in a brown red or present so lightly that it wasn't noticed?

 

[pinkchick]

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The only thing is that cuckoo is supposed to be dominant....??? isn't it? Could it hide in a brown red or present so lightly that it wasn't noticed?

Alecia~

I don't work with cuckoos but I do believe that the barring is suppose to be dominant. As for the second question I don't know?????

But I do know that stranger things have happened.

The reason I asked about the obvious strip down the back is because I don't believe that cuckoo would have that and one of his little chicks looks as though it has definite strips down the back, or maybe its just my monitor?