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Just some observations from someone that has bred a few BC and several other colors of Marans. The middle toe Gene has nothing to do with the Marans having stubs on the middle and a little fuzz on the web. Thinking this just muddles up the whole breeding process. Until something is proven please...

Kim, good post. I could also add that if anyone breeds for the super heavy feathered shank and outer toe, you will get lots of chicks with feathered middle toe and web fuzz. It boils down to be a exercise of averages and culling. Don

Hi, The Mossy condition you refer to very seldom goes away after the Juve molt. These will be for you eating egg flock. The chick with the brown on the hackle is normal for Black Copper chicks. I would not use the Mossy chicks for breeders for a possible SOP flock. Don

Vicki, I would rather the BC chicks have considerable white around the head and white throat and chest and run down the belly. I originally thought that was where all the white feathers were coming from but through testing that it had no bearing on the white in wing and tail. Don

Barb and Vicki, The one thing I learned the hard way was that we want white around the head, chest and even belly on the BC chicks. When I did the mating with the male that threw the chicks with virtually no white I thought I had hit the jackpot, If you remember the chicks had a brown cast to...

Hi, these chicks are BC marans. Don

Just a short note on the Brown spot on the BC Marans. The last 400 chicks I hatched last year and showed pictures on here had the brown around the head. The female ended up Mossy and the males were over brown breasted and all were sent to the vietnamese for food. Don

Arielle, If you set up female and male matings you can still breed the two lines together. Best policy is just do test matings at the start and see whick works best for what you would want to see. In all the years I have had chickens I have always done a lot of single matings. Even with Gamefowl...

Hi Harris5, good to see you posting. Question on the Gold chicks, will these be Golden Cuckoo when feathered, they sure are nice looking. Don

From what I can see would say that is light slate. How is the color on the male ate the base of the tail where the tail coverts come from any white ? Looks like a nice male

randy, I do not see a problem as long as they reach the proper size, To be honest this is one of the things we have to be on the look out when inbreeding real close. What we have to worry about keeping the size where it should. I am all for anyone asking anything related with wheaten now that...

Hi Nicol, I hope you were only joking about there not being many things for a Marans to be DQ for in you statement. We just recently did a comple list with all the DQ and faults on it. Mathace has a site with this but can not remember the name. Wynette has a thread where it is all recorded...

I believe she belongs to the Marans group MCCusa and maybe Marans of America, they might have contact info. Don

Debbi, I agree entirely, it is up to the buyer to root out the bad egg sellers. Don

Will answer for myself and hope Walt will see the post and answer. What you are talking about is Double mating and is very similiar to single mating. With the Double matings you will pair fowl up with the intent of getting better males from one mating. Then mate up a pair with the intent of...

Hi all, I am sure there has to be someone out there with Cuckoo Marans and would like to get them ready for the upcoming 2013 APA approval. Might be someone that also has white and maybe some eggs for sale. Don

A suggestion for all looking to buy Wheaten Marans eggs in the future. With the wheaten having very good Shank feathering as a rule I would not under any circumstances buy wheaten unless they had feathered legs. Also ask to see a picture showing the head looking for sprigs and Carnation. If...

Don't remind me as I bought a setting of eggs from ebay last year that looked real good and hatched six chicks, three had Carnation so had to cull all. I would say they have about the same problems, I would really be careful. Randy, has about as nice wheaten as you will find to work with...

Thanks Debbi, there is another one in my book adding the slit making 80 total for people doing single matings. Will see if I can get a copy on the scanner and post.

Just wondering if everyone has noticed that the Wheaten Marans is not bothered with the Shank and toe feathering like most of the others colors. My Wheaten are very heavy feathered and have never had one with no feathers, feathers on the middle toe either. I just wonder why this is and expect...