Not a blue Orp ...no way [SOLVED PG 3]

[Ellie]

Thanks for looking into if for me, Stormy Lady (By the way, I have a cat named Stormy). This is probably the most unusual and not so easily pegged chicken I have at the moment. I wish I were home more to see if this bird has been in the nest laying.

 

[Ellie]

chick 1043:
One of the weird things about this bird is that the other two have rust color around their necks but this one doesn't.

 

[stormylady]

Maybe they are black copper Marans, rather than black marans?? At feathersite they have the two different colors shown seperately. I just love learning new things.

Oops sorry didn't mean to but in.

 

[marlene]

I have marans and yours looks like a black marans, the other marans you have is a black copper.

 

[hdowden]

shes a mix of a black marans and an orp

edit: comb is way to big for a marans

 

[BrattishTaz]

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This is what I was thinking too. I see characteristics of both in this bird.

 

[ArizonaDesertChicks]

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If she's pure, I'd say Marans. I think some BCMs end up without the copper coloring. How dark was the egg she came from?

This is one of mine at 7 months old - her comb is not as large as your hen's comb, but still a good size.

 

[Ellie]

Now that is what my marans looks like. This bird came out of a normal brown egg. Not Marans dark I mean. My best guess is marans/orp too. Now, male or female?

Edited to add: at this point I'm not at all sure of the egg color.

 

[stormylady]

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I was just wondering, How old is she? I don't recall you saying.

 

[Ellie]

Hatched March 30 So I am guessing hen?

Here is what the breeder wrote to me after the hatch:

That was why when I looked at it I was so surpised to see it was black. How the heck did that happen. The breeders were splash and black. That combination always gives 100% blue chicks. It doesn't make any sense that it is black. I could see if the breeding pair was black and blue, you would get a 50/50 on the black and blue chicks. Very weird. My blue cochin wasn't in that pen, not ever. I have about four cochin eggs in my bator, when they hatch I'll take a look at them. Something very wrong here.


The eggs marked that I got were

1 Blue orpington
2 marans
1 blue cochin

so, it is supposed to be one of those. Now, with it being so long ago, I don't remember the egg color but sure as shootin I thought it was a marans. I did not get a blue cochin... it is black. Nor a blue orpington or any orpington, I thought so maybe this is the orpington but with Marans.