Recent content by Penumbra

Thanks, that's helpful. These 3 will likely go into the cull group, regardless, but I have time so it will be interesting to see how they feather out.

Looking through some of the other Marans threads, I see a couple of examples of similar patterning, described as mossiness (leaking of the copper). Might that be part of what I am seeing in these juvenile feathers (in the two pullets anyway)?

Those 3 chicks are the extreme anomolies, but that does represent 10% of what I got so I ponder whether there is hidden stuff in the genotype of the others that may or may not be expressed in phenotype as they grow out. SOP aside, I wonder where the color patterning may be coming from. All are...

Hi, First post on backyard. I picked up 30 Marans chicks from a small hatchery two weeks ago. The order consisted of copper blue/black/spash but I was told I could also get wheaten. I was told that wheaten and copper were bred separately. Most of what I got visually fit nicely as one or...

I was there the other day and they don't have any chicks yet but it looked like they were making room for them. Wilco in Corvallis has chicks right now. Last year at Del's they told me they could special order any chicks as long as long as it was in their supplier's catalog (quite large list...