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    Vet wrap for comb frostbite prevention

    We're just going below freezing out here and I'm trying vet wrap on my Leghorn rooster this year to see if it helps protect his comb. Anyone out there tried this? I'm wondering how long I can leave it on there. I'm thinking I can leave it on for a few days to a week. It's not on tight. I'm...
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    2 of my bbs copper maran chicks have a red tint to their heads

    Is it not heterozygous Db or perhaps evidence of ER/eWh?
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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    I have a 2 year old hen whose hackle was too blonde in her first adult feathering. I can't tell her hackle apart from the others now, it's nice reddish copper color. I don't know why it changed so much... maybe it has something to do with hormone levels when the feathers are developing, or...
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    Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

    I think with bought eggs, there are too many variables to blame the genetics on weak hatchability. The post that said that later they cannot tell which ones were late or weak hatchers shows that weak hatchers can thrive too. With shipped or purchased eggs, maybe the weak hatchers are the...
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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    You might have some BC in there, but I don't see feathers on any shanks. The yellow is probably not Black Copper x Partridge Pene because the only chicks that have yellow down are either white or wheaten based. Some lines of Black Copper have Wheaten pop out at times, it is quite common, and...
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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    One distinction to make here is what you are calling Wheaten. There is only one wheaten gene that makes a Marans "wheaten", and a Black Copper may display white shanks, less black in the hackle, brown fluff in the bum, and red on the chest of roosters without having the wheaten gene. These...
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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    Breeding out the wheaten gene is not hard. It's easier than yellow skin, white earlobes, or black legs. But Marans with wheaten in their backgrounds are sometimes missing other genes that must be later selected for and bred back into your flock. These are the challenge. Different melanizers...
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    Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

    Hi Randy, Sorry to hear about your roo. Sounds like he had a good and fruitful life. Yeah, that's the same for me - the Marans don't really protect the chicks from the others - even when free to find a good hiding place for them. Some of the broodies I have had fight like gamebirds to protect...
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    Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

    Here in Europe at least, both BC and Wheaten Marans have gone broody on me. They do set well. But allowed to free range with the chicks they don't make the most aware and protective mothers from what I have experienced. If they are caged, I think they will do fine to show the chicks food and...
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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    Comb growth differs a lot between lines. I think sometimes when comb development outstrips the growth of the head and skull you get a slight wave that does go away when the head catches up. But I have only seen this in my cuckoos. Some of them have a really bad twist at initial development -...
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    Black Copper Marans discussion thread

    Hey Wynette, I can see how there might be misunderstandings from the progression of posts on yellow skin. The term "recessive for" in most of the posts should read "heterozygous for". Heterozygous recessive means the gene is hiding. If it is test mated to prove that a particular bird is not...
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    Gauloise (Bresse) eggs due to hatch on 19-20th

    Had several calamities strike one after the other last fall. First, in November, our barn burned down. Lost my original Bresse Roo in the fire. At the time I had hatched two hens and a roo from Germany, but they had issues - one had dominant white and pale shanks. The roo never really...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Wynette- the winning roo, the shank picture you posted, what did he look like otherwise? Not too dark? Enough copper? Math- I think the roo's head is a bit narrow, crowheaded? Maybe the photo or my monitor is off, but isn't that roo really red vs. copper?
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I was going to say just the other side. If you have a chick (like that "splash" one in the previous page) with SO much white, you are probably going to get a very dark, overmelanized chick. I don't think that chick is a splash, it's an BC that will be completely black if it's a hen (unless it...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Hi Pink! Yes Don I think for a good breeder it can be both a science and an art. For some more one than the other. I recall having this conversation before. You're right, in some lines that are heavily line bred for a long time in a closed flock, the birds will be genetically and physically...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Just so everyone knows, a single mating does not result in offspring that are genetically identical. Siblings are not clones of each other. Each chick gets half of each parent's genes... for the most part randomly. Genes are in pairs (except the sex linked ones) in each parent, say like...
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    Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

    You posted two picture 5's, so I'm not sure which one you mean. The blue in the first picture has very light hackle and saddle feathers - but if he is blue and not blue copper he shouldn't have red in his wings. Between the two blue coppers - it's hard to tell from your pictures. I can't...
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    Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

    The roo in picture 3 has too much brown on his chest. Some of it goes away as they get older, but that boy's got way too much. Wheatens should have much lighter shanks than Black Copper or Blue Copper, but some blues have pretty light shanks too. Wheaten males will also have the light brown...
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    Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

    Hi Randy, I had my best wheaten hen go broody on me at the end of last summer before I could hatch more than a half dozen of her eggs. I have broody marans all the time. It's best to separate them at night, you can move the nest usually with no problem. I've moved some broodies after they...
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    Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

    No, you're right, they will be buff and white, like the ameraucanas. But you can't check them for white in the wings or tail like you can with a good dark blue or standard wheaten. That is, splash wheaten is supposed to be white in the wings and tail but if they carry genes that will produce...
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