[cairnhill]

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.

[jaykay]

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

[tizaala]

Could be a blue wyandot. maybe...!   ?

[cairnhill]

Thanks jaykay I guess that confirms it.  I would love some more and a cockerel but I am in Aberdeenshire.

[gavo]

We crossed a wyandotte cockeral onto a maran hen and they look just like that.

[ellisr]

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

[Southfields]

definitely a pullet and definitely some form of Maran!

[Barrett]

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.

[Mel]

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!

[cairnhill]

 Bea is lovely, does she have feathers on her legs as mine does?

[jaykay]

My French Copper Marans have feathery legs 

[cairnhill]

I only have her and would like some more.  Do you sell hatching eggs jaykay?

[jaykay]

I will be in the spring  They all free-range (far and wide  ) 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.

[marigold]

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 

[jaykay]

I'll have to take photos of both cos my young cream legbar cockerel looks nothing like my marans 
Have you got some photos of yours Marigold?