Birchen Marans Thread

[Alo]

Harvey Moore has some of the best black silver(birchen) marans around for sale.

Cool.

Mahalo nui Bantambird.

I love this site! What a wonderful source of information.

Mahalo nui loa to BYC too.

God bless you all.

 

[Alo]

Is there a way to contact Harvey Moore for chick sales, besides FB?

I see a few other places where it might be possible to contact him, but I doubt he'd appreciate being bothered about my chicken needs on his autobiographical pages...

...and there's probably a special tax for idiots who do. lol

 

[Bantambird]

He's an older man, but perhaps you can find his email through the marans club.

 

[Chargermike14]

Saw this thread from a long time ago. Figured I would still post and see what happens.

we are guessing that these roosters may be Marans or Maran crosses. Could anyone confirm and if so which one would be better to put with our barred rock and other lighter brown egg layers in hopes that their little ones would lay darker eggs.

 

[Bantambird]

Saw this thread from a long time ago. Figured I would still post and see what happens.

we are guessing that these roosters may be Marans or Maran crosses. Could anyone confirm and if so which one would be better to put with our barred rock and other lighter brown egg layers in hopes that their little ones would lay darker eggs.

It's hard to say whether or not those are marans crosses. The first one is potentially closest to a marans, and you can occasionally get clean legged marans. If that first one is a marans, he's got some flaws, but if he's going into a mixed flock that won't matter. The second and third look more like Wyandottes with those Combs, but they could be crosses.
I can't tell you definitively if any of those boys are for sure marans. The first one looks closest. For marans cocks to pass dark shells on, they themselves will need to have hatched from a dark egg.

 

[Chargermike14]

Thank you

 

[Avisius]

Hello,

Not sure if this 11 months rooster of mine is a Birchen Marans or maybe a cross?
Perhaps some of you are much more knowledgeable on the subject.
The color is not silvery, is more yellowish and it's I think not widespread enough.
What do you think? Is this a Marans or something completely different? Thanks.

 

[Chooks man]

Hello,

Not sure if this 11 months rooster of mine is a Birchen Marans or maybe a cross?
Perhaps some of you are much more knowledgeable on the subject.
The color is not silvery, is more yellowish and it's I think not widespread enough.
What do you think? Is this a Marans or something completely different? Thanks.
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he is marans for sure not pure birchen but marans
chooks man

 

[dougieee]

Sorry to jump in to this thread but i bought 6 day old Copper Black pullets in january...... and only got 5, as you can see from the photo. Im trying to identify the fella on the left.
Im not to bothered as i will put him in with the Aruacanas and CCL girls next spring for some olive eggers.

 

[Bantambird]

Is the dude on the left from the same group? If so, he is carrying one silver gene and one copper gene, making him straw colored.