What gender are these cuckoo Marans?

[850Quailman]

Trying to figure out if I have two roosters and a hen as I fear, or if I have two hens and a rooster as I hoped!

 

[Merro]

I think your fear is likely correct.

 

[thechickfam]

It looks like you have 2 cockerels and 1 pullet.

 

[850Quailman]

Same thing I was thinking.. Thanks for the replies!

 

[thechickfam]

The cockerels have more white than black and the pullets have more black than white. We have one Cuckoo Marans pullet and I questioned the gender of ours because we didn't have another one of the opposite gender for comparison. I felt like my eyes kept playing tricks on me. One day I thought I saw more white than black and another day I thought I saw more black than white. How many weeks old are yours?

 

[850Quailman]

These are the only breed I have that I don't have an accurate age on(as they were given to me). I would guess they are somewhere between 5-6 weeks.

 

[Toddrick]

I kept reading the males should have double the white bar, which left me confused because that is almost never the case to my eyes. Finally I read somewhere someone said the males will have more like 50% black barring, and females will have more like 75% black barring, and that seemed to make a lot more sense to me.

So then I would agree that you have two cockerels and one pullet based solely on feather coloring.

 

[Chicken Strut]

Looks like the 2 lighter birds are also larger than the dark one, which would be consistent with their being cockerels. Sorry!