The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Poultry & Waterfowl => Topic started by: cairnhill on August 30, 2011, 06:52:50 pm
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Not sure if this one is a boy or a girl and don't know breed
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will try to get a closer image
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could maybe be a black copper maran?
maybe!
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Feathers all look rounded so far, so I vote hen, but no idea of breed. :chook: :wave:
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I agree it does look like a black copper Maran or maybe evener a blue copper maran, not 100% sure though. ::)
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It's definitely a chicken.
My vote is that it's even a girl chicken! ;)
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i thought chicken too. and girl! :D
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a girl??? oops! she has been in my all boys group.
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it might be a bit early to tell but I'd say girl, too. And possibly Black Rock? Just because I don't know any other breeds that colour, to be honest ::) ::)
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What age is it - that might give us a better clue as to sex, but looking at comb and wattles I'd say a hen too.
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blue haze bred fom a road island red and a blue marran will be a good egg layer ,did you get much from the sale on saterday .
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not sure of her age as I got her with a batch of cream legbar chicks about 3 months ago. Didn't get any poultry on Saturday but did get a self black Soay ram lamb. Thanks for all the replies folks :)
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Looks a like some of those blue belles, the ybrids (not sure what they are a hybrid of. Or a blue maran would be a good shout. I'll give you evens that is a hen rather than a cock... if it lays an egg i'll give you 2:1 its a hen!
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i don't know either, but i've got one exactly like it and she lays enormous dark brown eggs!
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Definitely a pullet and very pretty whatever went into her breeding.
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huge dark brown eggs would confirm Maran of some description, I am going with Blue Copper as she is similar in colour to a blue orpington I have. Cheers for all the help. She is now back in the youngsters group.
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Blue copper Maran. I've got lots just like her running around the yard. The 'blue' varies from this dark to quite pale grey. I've got a cockerel to match her, if you want one.
I'm hoping the chicks I've hatched lay very dark eggs like the ones they came from :)
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Could be a blue wyandot. maybe...! ?
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Thanks jaykay I guess that confirms it. I would love some more and a cockerel but I am in Aberdeenshire.
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We crossed a wyandotte cockeral onto a maran hen and they look just like that.
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definately a maran and a lot of copper around the neck so copper maran of some sort. I had a cuckoo maran that I thought was a girl for 10 months but no eggs and then it developed a cough but never crowed
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definitely a pullet and definitely some form of Maran!
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Hi there, I have a couple of Beechwood Blue's who look similar to yours or could be a Rhode Rock if you check out Cyril Bason's web site they have a nice clear picture of both breeds I would put my money on it being a hen the crown is not prominent enough.
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Hi,the feathers look a bit blue to me,but they may change as she gets older,here is a picture of my Bea,she is a Pure breed French Copper Maran.She is four and a half years of age and still laying lovely choccy eggs!
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Bea is lovely, does she have feathers on her legs as mine does?
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My French Copper Marans have feathery legs :)
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I only have her and would like some more. Do you sell hatching eggs jaykay?
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I will be in the spring :) They all free-range (far and wide :D) together for most of the year. In the spring I pen them in separate breeds/colours for a while to collect hatching eggs - don't like to see them penned for too long.
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If it arrived with cream legbar chicks it is probably a cream legbar cockerel. They fool folk.
I managed to mistake 3 of mine for maran x hens - they are late developers but slowly they get gingery feathers in patches on their backs and then their top knot feather sort of stick up in a scruffy teddy boy sort of a way.
As soon as i saw it i thought it looked liked one of mine but when i read the other posts i thought that other people must know better.
If you keep it for another 3 months you'll see the changes described above. Cream legbars are auto sexing the girls birst feathers are reddy brown and the boys look like wee marans.
Keep us posted :chook:
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I'll have to take photos of both cos my young cream legbar cockerel looks nothing like my marans :o
Have you got some photos of yours Marigold?
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I'll take one tomorrow and post it :)
Wish i had taken one a few weeks ago before the ginger showed.
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ok now i've realised that if you click on the photo it enlarges ....... It doesn't look like a cream legbar cockerel - i'll post a photo of mine tomorrow
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Bea is lovely, does she have feathers on her legs as mine does?
Yes she does :)
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Took a while - I have been distracted by new puppies
so here is a pic of our juvenile Cream Legbar Cockerels - they are quite a lot lighter than your youngster.
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Oh well done, i forgot to get the camera out during all the cleaning out yesterday ::)
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I have cream legbars too Marigold so I knew it wasn't one of them. Putting my money on blue copper maran.
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Ooooo, I think we should do a guess the juvenile/cross-breed thread! I've been experimenting but they're all this summers so probably won't be until next year to see how they lay, although some of my cockeral 'experiments' are turning some interesting results...