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    Reviving the English Golden Cuckoo Marans

    As a lot of my friends here know, I’m working on a project to combine the Gold allele from my French Black Copper Marans with the barring of my English Silver and Dark Cuckoo Marans, in an attempt to revive the English standard Golden Cuckoo. Contacts in the Marans club executives have agreed...
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    Expert chicken enablers needed

    A picture of my eggs in the incubator, the parents of my lavender eggs, then my own project birds. A mixture of English and French marans.
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    Expert chicken enablers needed

    Another reason to get more hens: you need to collect ALL the egg colours (even I’m missing the darker green ones).
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    Expert chicken enablers needed

    The confusion between the US standard Cochin bantam and UK true bantam Pekin, as well as insertion of Wyandotte etc for new colours has messed many lines up. They’re fantastic little show birds when they meet the standard. I’m hatching F1s in about 17 days. The hens won’t be golden but the...
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    Expert chicken enablers needed

    I’ve been chasing rats around this week. We’ve been overran by massive ones. I’m not exaggerating when I say some must be 18 inches head to tail. Mixing poisons rather than just sticking to one type works, but the mos effective way I’ve been combatting them is placing baited traps directly at...
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    Expert chicken enablers needed

    I’ve never had pekins but my neighbour used to have about half a dozen different breeding pens of them. Little feathered footballs they look like running around. Silkies have always been my bantam of choice. I mainly breed marans, I’m working to revive an extinct (in the UK) variety of them...
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    Expert chicken enablers needed

    This time of year is just perfect for chicks… I’ve certainly never experienced a lack of wanting for chickens. Very strange symptoms if you ask me. What breeds are your hens or any past hens?
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    BlueTheBrahma’s thread!

    I must say, I do love the spring.
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    Marans genetic and how to breed them to SOP

    I’ve had successful hatches two weeks after a cock was removed or died. That’s the usual window, but it can be more. Nice to see the breeder was honest and cooperative about it.
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    UK Members Please Say HI

    Tom Wales (Thackwood Pouktry), Herber Hargreaves (Greenfield Marans), Steve Wright (Temple Marans of Bodmin Moor). Some names I’ve got or seen class stock from. All on Facebook. I have marans eggs available for a week, but not coppers. Will have young ones ready from dark egg lines in a month...
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    I’ve done a terrible job of figuring out who lays which egg. I know there’s two Chanel x Wellington eggs. The five darkest and shiny ones are the same hen I’m pretty sure, not sure if it’s Joan, Belle or Esmeralda. 16 of my own English SCM x French BCM. 12 eggs I bought from a breeder. Class...
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    BlueTheBrahma’s thread!

    Basically I’ve done the same, just focusing on marans. Lavender isn’t a recognised variety and I assume someone had to breed Orpington in at some point, but that was so many generations ago because the breeder imported an otherwise good quality marans cock to cross to his silvers for his...
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    Received these yesterday. Lavender Silver marans from imported French lines. setting these and 14 of my own SCMxBCM eggs on Saturday or Sunday
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    I’m from England. My own marans have always been very successful (I’m setting off a hatch this weekend so we’ll see if that holds true this year). How are you incubating yours? Where/who did you get yours from?
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