PICS from my Thanksgiving hatch!!!

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Chunky chickie!!! Cuckoo Marans (cockerel?)
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Another Cuckoo Marans
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Another fluffy Cuckoo Marans
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A light colored Cuckoo Marans
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Black Orp
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Cuckoo Marans - born black with no spot. No barring on wings yet?????
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Blue Orp
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Everybody in a pile napping. Note the 2 Sumo chicks watching over them!!!!!
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Cuckoo Marans
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One of the Sumo chicks (Cuckoo Marans) snuggled in.
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Very sweet! The lighter CMs are probably cockerels. They are never as dark as the pullets. Sumo chick is right! That's exactly what I called the first chick hatched by herechickchick from Suede with my Buff Brahma as the mom. What a little tank it was! Now, at three months old, we find out it's a pullet! A big chunky pullet!
They look great-love the chickie pile!
 
Thanks, Cyn.

As usual, it looks like I have mostly cockerels. GGGRRRRRR!!!! Oh well, at least I have several with feathered legs.

Can't wait to see how I came out on the Orps. The blue one is bigger than the 2 black ones, so I'm hoping that the blue is a cockerel and the blacks are pullets. That would work out just fine!!!

Lori
 
Are you sure the chick that has no barring isnt maybe a black Orp.? They are all really cute.
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Cuckoo Marans are such beautiful chickens. Does look like about three cockerals at least. When I had Marans, I always hatched more Cockerals than pullets.
 
No, Countrygirl, I'm not positive that the black one with no barring is not an Orp. It's possible that in the excitement of hatching I made a mistake. The only thing is that it is quite a bit more fuzzy than the other Orps and the Marans are all fuzzy like that. But I definitely could have made a mistake.

Bama -my last few hatches have been very heavy on the cockerels and I'm afraid this one is turning out the same!

Lori
 

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