Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

Marans of America club is the breed club page on Facebook. They have a page for non members and members. Also look into joining pages local to your state for chickens, some may pop up. I see some on rare chickens for sale/swap.
 
$10 for day old chicks. Which looking at a couple of hatcheries now, apparently isn't that much. Sounded like a lot when I could buy "normal" pullets for $2-3 at farm stores. I suppose I should have compared hatcheries first; never occurred to me after being told to stay away from them :p

Well, live and learn. I may go ahead and breed these as planned to learn about that process and be prepared to cull ruthlessly as needed. In the meantime, I can be on the lookout for some older stock in my area. That's the hard part - I haven't seen any show breeders in my area, so I am not sure where to even begin..

I would never buy a Marans from a Hatchery if I had any intentions of breeding to the SOP. I hatch all my chicks in an incubator. You can get a GQF stryo-foam incubator to hatch, Stay away from the incubators at tsc unless they say GQF.
 
Has anyone ever tried crossing a splash marans and a Wheaton ameraucana ?,what color would that produce ?Wheaton x splash ?
Thanks for any help you can give :)
 
Hi just to add.
My chicken coop ready to receive my Black& Blue Copper Marans:

My black copper

some new coming in 20 day (also some Orpington and Leghorn for friends)
 
I was wondering if anyone could help me to sex my Marans chicks. They are now about 9 weeks old now. I have 3 black copper, 1 blue copper and 1 splash. I was thinking that the splash could be a roo, but now I am thinking pullet. Let me know what you think!

Splash:
http://i.imgur.com/tbNsbU7.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/j0JAlxX.jpg

Blue:
http://i.imgur.com/uPuYiPf.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Di1U7kv.jpg

Black #1:
http://i.imgur.com/ordRTrv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Jyt5XCy.jpg

Black #2:
http://i.imgur.com/bD1puBa.jpg
[img]http://i.imgur.com/6fk6elA.jpg

Black #3:
http://i.imgur.com/iJT6z85.jpg
 
I was wondering if anyone could help me to sex my Marans chicks. They are now about 9 weeks old now. I have 3 black copper, 1 blue copper and 1 splash. I was thinking that the splash could be a roo, but now I am thinking pullet. Let me know what you think!

Splash:
http://i.imgur.com/tbNsbU7.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/j0JAlxX.jpg

Blue:
http://i.imgur.com/uPuYiPf.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Di1U7kv.jpg

Black #1:
http://i.imgur.com/ordRTrv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Jyt5XCy.jpg

Black #2:
http://i.imgur.com/bD1puBa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6fk6elA.jpg

Black #3:
http://i.imgur.com/iJT6z85.jpg
 
I was wondering if anyone could help me to sex my Marans chicks. They are now about 9 weeks old now. I have 3 black copper, 1 blue copper and 1 splash. I was thinking that the splash could be a roo, but now I am thinking pullet. Let me know what you think!

Splash:
http://i.imgur.com/tbNsbU7.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/j0JAlxX.jpg

Blue:
http://i.imgur.com/uPuYiPf.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Di1U7kv.jpg

Black #1:
http://i.imgur.com/ordRTrv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Jyt5XCy.jpg

Black #2:
http://i.imgur.com/bD1puBa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6fk6elA.jpg

Black #3:
http://i.imgur.com/iJT6z85.jpg

It is much better to post actual picture as some of us will not open these up.
 
I was wondering if anyone could help me to sex my Marans chicks. They are now about 9 weeks old now. I have 3 black copper, 1 blue copper and 1 splash. I was thinking that the splash could be a roo, but now I am thinking pullet. Let me know what you think!

Splash:
http://i.imgur.com/tbNsbU7.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/j0JAlxX.jpg

Blue:
http://i.imgur.com/uPuYiPf.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Di1U7kv.jpg

Black #1:
http://i.imgur.com/ordRTrv.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Jyt5XCy.jpg

Black #2:
http://i.imgur.com/bD1puBa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6fk6elA.jpg

Black #3:
http://i.imgur.com/iJT6z85.jpg

They all look like pullets to me :)
 
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Can any breeders or anyone who's familiar with the breed standard tell me what quality of a pair I have here of my FBCMs. They are around 15 weeks. Thank you!
 
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