{"id":1295,"date":"2021-02-28T11:52:58","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T16:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2021-03-05T13:39:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T18:39:51","slug":"cuckoo-marans-melba-mini-melba-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/cuckoo-marans-melba-mini-melba-12\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuckoo Marans Melba &#038; Mini Melba 1&#038;2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Soooo&#8230;we have cuckoo marans &#8211; we&#8217;ve named the biggest Melba &#8211; she was one of the first to get to know us and become very friendly. As two of the smaller chicks began to feather, their feathers were also showing the black\/white pattern. Such pretty chicks!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><ul class=\"blocks-gallery-grid\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1008\" height=\"756\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-lucky-cluckers-chickens-02-feb-cuckoo-marans-melba-and-friends-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"1296\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-lucky-cluckers-chickens-02-feb-cuckoo-marans-melba-and-friends-1.jpg\" data-link=\"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/?attachment_id=1296\" class=\"wp-image-1296 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-lucky-cluckers-chickens-02-feb-cuckoo-marans-melba-and-friends-1.jpg 1008w, https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-lucky-cluckers-chickens-02-feb-cuckoo-marans-melba-and-friends-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-lucky-cluckers-chickens-02-feb-cuckoo-marans-melba-and-friends-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-lucky-cluckers-chickens-02-feb-cuckoo-marans-melba-and-friends-1-936x702.jpg 936w, https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/2021-lucky-cluckers-chickens-02-feb-cuckoo-marans-melba-and-friends-1-480x360.jpg 480w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1008px) 100vw, 1008px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1008px; 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--smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1008\/756;\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">French <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/hoovershatchery.com\/CuckooMarans.html\" target=\"_blank\">Cuckoo Marans<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Maran breed originates from a town called Marans, France. It is a very winter hardy breed with a docile temperament. They tend to be more athletic, taking to foraging and free ranging more often than other breeds. Marans lay dark brown and dark speckled eggs. These tough birds make a great addition to any backyard flock. APPROX. 200 MEDIUM EGGS\/YEAR | EGG COLOR: BROWN | MATURE WT: MALE 6 LBS. FEMALE 4.5 LBS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soooo&#8230;we have cuckoo marans &#8211; we&#8217;ve named the biggest Melba &#8211; she was one of the first to get to know us and become very friendly. As two of the smaller chicks began to feather, their feathers were also showing the black\/white pattern. Such pretty chicks! French Cuckoo Marans The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194,25,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cuckoo-maran","category-melba","category-mini-melba","wpcat-194-id","wpcat-25-id","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1394,"href":"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/1394"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.legendaryescapes.com\/luckycluckers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}