Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Sylvester017]

It doesn’t really matter much except that it’s fun to guess. As they get older it will likely get easier, baby chicks are hard to i.d. There several folks here that are great with figuring out breeds.

I only knew about the Jubilee because I had them and remember being quite confused as to why the mahogany speckled chickens I ordered were hatching out yellow. I never would have guessed. It was quite the transformation from chick to adult.

This is what those tiny yellow chicks hatched turned into.
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You have a Legbar also. Do you have pics of her eggs?

 

[Marie2020]

I hope you have good luck w/ a Cuckoo Marans. The European Cuckoo Marans have feathered legs but the ones in USA are sold clean-legged..Why All other Marans varieties are feather-legged here but not the Cuckoo.

Our Cuckoo Marans was a bully to the Silkie Violet & picked fights w/ our gentle White Leghorn. & her eggs were not as dark chocolate like the Copper or Black Marans eggs. Malines eggs are a light brown which may account for the lighter chocolate egg of the Cuckoo Marans when crossed. I've started to wonder if the Cuckoo Malines in Europe were used to create both the Cuckoo Marans as well as the Cuckoo Breda? It's the only answer I could figure as to why the Cuckoo Marans eggs were not as dark as the Copper or Black Marans eggs. Maybe since the decade ago that we had our Cuckoo Marans breeders may have improved the egg color but there's still the Malines ancestry that may spring up in Cuckoos.

We had both a Cuckoo Marans & a Cuckoo Breda & both were large body chickens & bullies & had to be re-homed...I'm starting to question Malines temperaments being passed on to the cross breeds. Just thinking back on our experience

Bela & Violet w/ Tish the large Cuckoo Marans 2012
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Our large Cuckoo Breda, w/ Malines history, & she was also a flock bully
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Loving those feathered feet

 

[Marie2020]

I had an email during the week about Princess. Sorry no updated picture to share.

She's still doing really well and getting on with her many friends

 

[Marie2020]

It's Caturday already

Oliver ignores me because I picked up his dish to add fresh simmered turkey mince to his breakfast.

 

[Marie2020]

Oliver patiently waits too get his food because he's protecting the kitten while he ate his much needed breakfast.

Only after the kitten finished would Oliver come too eat his own.

 

[Marie2020]

I love this beautiful face

 

[rural mouse]

I hope you have good luck w/ a Cuckoo Marans. The European Cuckoo Marans have feathered legs but the ones in USA are sold clean-legged..Why All other Marans varieties are feather-legged here but not the Cuckoo.

Our Cuckoo Marans was a bully to the Silkie Violet & picked fights w/ our gentle White Leghorn. & her eggs were not as dark chocolate like the Copper or Black Marans eggs. Malines eggs are a light brown which may account for the lighter chocolate egg of the Cuckoo Marans when crossed. I've started to wonder if the Cuckoo Malines in Europe were used to create both the Cuckoo Marans as well as the Cuckoo Breda? It's the only answer I could figure as to why the Cuckoo Marans eggs were not as dark as the Copper or Black Marans eggs. Maybe since the decade ago that we had our Cuckoo Marans breeders may have improved the egg color but there's still the Malines ancestry that may spring up in Cuckoos.

We had both a Cuckoo Marans & a Cuckoo Breda & both were large body chickens & bullies & had to be re-homed...I'm starting to question Malines temperaments being passed on to the cross breeds. Just thinking back on our experience

Bela & Violet w/ Tish the large Cuckoo Marans 2012
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Our large Cuckoo Breda, w/ Malines history, & she was also a flock bully
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The clean legs on the Cuckoo Marans in the US are due to where they were imported from. Britain preferred clean legs over feathered legs in the Marans, so worked on those. When importing to the US, the French Marans (any color) were brought in from France or other parts of mainland Europe. The Cuckoo Marans were brought in from England. That gave rise to the differing terms: French _______ Marans vs _____ Marans with the French meaning feather footed varieties.

Egg color.....? Haven't looked into that at all, but I suspect you're onto something there.