We have a bluehaze/bluebelle chicken....its a hybrid but of what 2 breeds?

[ladytophamhatt]

Shes called Beyonce because she has a larger bum then the rest of them

I can'r believe all teh Mn chicken keepers are stumped by this question.

I have looked myeslf but can't find anything other than saying it sa hybrid.

Maran x RIR

Ohh, really what makes them grey then?

Ours is really really grey.

Aren't Maran's grey?

nah... my marans are brown with white splodges

photos on the omlet site show them as black and white....

Well I'm guessing that would be a French Copper Maran rather than a Cuckoo Maran which are definetly grey.

you're maiing it up, aren't you SKSS??

On the omlet website they have this description;

"The majority of the Marans we see today in the UK are cuckoo coloured, ranging from a very dark grey colour down to silver"

Hey - I know my chickens

my marans look exactly like the one pictured here
but the bluebelles markings are very similar so maybe it is a x

Yep, MaranxRIR

my lovely brown maran is on my profile

They have French Wheaten marans on that website as well as an cuckoo maran. I have to say I've never seen a cuckoo maran looke that black and white and that photo looks more like a barred Plymouth Rock to me.

Grey maran here

www.organicpullets.co.uk/pulletsavailable.htm

No, defintely a spaniel you've got there.

that cuckoo maran doesn't look like any maran I've ever seen!

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ROFL

you know I think the lacing on that cuckoo maran looks more like a wyandotte. My marans are much splodgier

you're all baffling me with all these technical chicken terms.

Hi, don't know how old this thread is as I've just joined, but I can confirm that the Maran in question is a copper blue. They come in lots of different colours - french cuckoo (gray and white stripes), copper black (black with a copper colour round the neck), copper blue (same as copper black, but the black is replaced by a bluey grey colour), french wheaton (a lovely creamy brown colour). Hope this helps clear up this question for all of you chickeny people out there

it's pretty old, 2008, don't worry

click on this to get to the list of current chickeny topics

you will fit right in with the other chicken obsessives

I just came on to answer the question and see I did answer it back in 2008 (am skss)