Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

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6/26/12 at 8:50pm

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haha.... you say that now, but you haven't seen all my birds or my art stuff yet! haha!

ok - so I'll send a professional company of burly men!

and we can watch them pack!

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6/26/12 at 8:51pm

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ok - so I'll send a professional company of burly men!

and we can watch them pack!

haha you're bad! but funny!

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6/26/12 at 9:12pm

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I need some help. I don't understand some of the colors. I see pics of wheatens and they look like BCM. I have BBR ameraucanas and they look like BCM.

HELP!! I so don't understand!

What are BBR Ameraucanas?

Ok not the best pic after I edited it.... this was a Wheaten Am I had that had DQ's so he was sold and an EE. That cinnamon in his wing is the difference between BCM and Wheatens. The pullet are a completely different color. Wheaten pullets are Buff with color in their tail and wings.

BBR--too tired to remember. black _____ red. Will look it up. I have cross bred AMeraucanas that are easily confused with BCM. I'm thinking the wings need a little investigating. WIll compare to the wheaten above.

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On a good year we can get three cuts in New England. Needs to be a year with an early first cut. I don't do haying anymore. Unloading a 16T truck in 2-3 hours is enough! LOL

I'm here in northeastern PA, but, usually our spring is so wet that, by the time that we can get on the field, it's too late to get more than 2 cuttings...some years, we only get one, so any extra land is a HUGE bonus for us!

Ugh - I don't envy you unloading a big truck like that!

Where does your hay come from? Canada?

YEs, Canada. THough my other guy, the one that lost the barn and hay, is in NY. Prefer to spend the money in country, but the guy has good prices and the family is nice to work with.

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Black Copper Marans, Buff Orpingtons and Speckled Sussex

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Eggs available: Bourbon Red and Sweetgrass Turkeys

Black Copper Marans, Buff Orpingtons and Speckled Sussex

Grow where you are planted. --Unknown

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6/26/12 at 9:18pm

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BBR--too tired to remember. black _____ red. Will look it up. I have cross bred AMeraucanas that are easily confused with BCM. I'm thinking the wings need a little investigating. WIll compare to the wheaten above.

YEs, Canada. THough my other guy, the one that lost the barn and hay, is in NY. Prefer to spend the money in country, but the guy has good prices and the family is nice to work with.

B.B. Red usually stands for Black Breasted Red

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6/26/12 at 9:21pm

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BBR--too tired to remember. black _____ red. Will look it up. I have cross bred AMeraucanas that are easily confused with BCM. I'm thinking the wings need a little investigating. WIll compare to the wheaten above.

YEs, Canada. THough my other guy, the one that lost the barn and hay, is in NY. Prefer to spend the money in country, but the guy has good prices and the family is nice to work with.

The place where I used to winter board used to truck in hay from Canada by the trailer load.

It was lovely hay! Good prices, too!

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6/26/12 at 10:43pm

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whats the average black copper eggs? Is 6 on a average good?

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6/27/12 at 7:25am

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BBR--too tired to remember. black _____ red. Will look it up. I have cross bred AMeraucanas that are easily confused with BCM. I'm thinking the wings need a little investigating. WIll compare to the wheaten above.

YEs, Canada. THough my other guy, the one that lost the barn and hay, is in NY. Prefer to spend the money in country, but the guy has good prices and the family is nice to work with.

B.B. Red usually stands for Black Breasted Red

Yes. That's it!! SO back to basics. THe marans is a black based chicken, but this other one has a black sexlink parent ( RIR x plymouth rock) and a partridge colored EE mother. HOw do they look exactly alike? Are they the same for the color genetics? Or is the genes different but the expression looks the same?

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BBR--too tired to remember. black _____ red. Will look it up. I have cross bred AMeraucanas that are easily confused with BCM. I'm thinking the wings need a little investigating. WIll compare to the wheaten above.

YEs, Canada. THough my other guy, the one that lost the barn and hay, is in NY. Prefer to spend the money in country, but the guy has good prices and the family is nice to work with.

The place where I used to winter board used to truck in hay from Canada by the trailer load.

It was lovely hay! Good prices, too!

Good prices, often better than I can get locally. I'm hoping with the decrease in gas prices to see hay come down in price. ANd grain. But if grain belt is low in production this year, we will experience grain increases. Of course so much of our grain is shipped overseas. Our grain production is subsidized to keep it cheap and we sell it over seas to drive up prices at home.

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Eggs available: Bourbon Red and Sweetgrass Turkeys

Black Copper Marans, Buff Orpingtons and Speckled Sussex

Grow where you are planted. --Unknown

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Eggs available: Bourbon Red and Sweetgrass Turkeys

Black Copper Marans, Buff Orpingtons and Speckled Sussex

Grow where you are planted. --Unknown

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6/27/12 at 7:59am

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I finally have a Splash Copper Marans pullet with copper on her!!!!!!!!!! Only one hackle feather is copper and a smidge above her eye.......but I'm taking it!

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6/27/12 at 8:05am

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whats the average black copper eggs? Is 6 on a average good?

Hi!

I would say the average Marans egg color is a strong 5-6 with some that regularly lay 7's. It's my experience and opinion that they do not lay 8's and 9's on a regular basis.

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6/27/12 at 8:26am