Cuckoo Marans
A variety of the Marans · Also known as Cuckoo Maran, Dark Cuckoo Marans
Chicken · Chocolate eggs · Laying
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About the Cuckoo Marans
The Cuckoo (Dark Cuckoo) is the original and most widespread Marans colour, carrying the dominant barring gene over a black base to give the characteristic irregular black-and-grey banded feathering; hens are noticeably darker than the lighter, more silvery cocks. It is one of the long-standardised UK colours (clean-legged in the British standard) and remains a dependable layer of the breed's famously dark, glossy chocolate-brown eggs.
At a glance
- Egg colour
- Chocolate
- Eggs per year
- About 200
- Purpose
- Laying, Meat
- Sizes
- Large fowl, Bantam
- Incubation
- 21 days
- Broodiness
- Low
- Cold hardiness
- Hardy
- Purity
- Pure
- Origin
- France
- Scientific name
- Gallus gallus domesticus