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  1. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    THANK YOU. I know she is too dark. All but one of mine are. She is still a pullet so I am hoping her breast will fill out. I didn't even look at her wing. This is why I love feedback. The wavy comb is in all but one of my pullets as well. Smaller combs in general would be a blessing. Her...
  2. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    No one said anything about the type on my pullet. I was hoping for that. FWIW I read that those culls were going to be bred. Its one thing to cull a bird out because he isn't THE best and another to cull out for reasons of flaws. Wynette is right. If people are going to cull their birds...
  3. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    FWIW Kassaundra here in BYC has learned this all first hand and is a great person who is willing to help out polite inquirers. Its not quite for me. I butchery by hand and have even sewn up gashes etc but I am not quite ready to find the testes in a live bird and remove them. I don't think...
  4. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Thank you. I started with Grey Pomeranian Saddleback Geese this year. This was my singleton this year who is now fully feathered and as big as everyone else but the pic is cute :) I have Marans too... trying to keep with the thread theme :) We have cougar/mountain lions here too but the...
  5. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    WOW. a bear at your birds!? I wish I had that kind of story! And the one about the brahma teaching the dogs not to chase chickens; priceless he he he. Cuckoo are a color variety of Marans and while the BCM get a lot of attention I like cuckoo too. Welcome :)
  6. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Great distinction in your language! And I love the color on this boy and his wide black chest. Both pics make him look pretty upright, of a shallow keel. What's his age? Well said. I like rehoming those that can be to anyone who wants to make meat birds or their own backyard beauties but...
  7. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Because this breed is new and so many times breeds are spoiled by negligence or fads those people who worked hard to get it admitted and those people who work hard to get their birds to the standard that made them fad worthy in the first place are bound to want to make the point of the merit in...
  8. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Just getting back to this for a minute, sorry, but I was out for a bit. Isabelle reminds me of fawn duckwing in OEGB- a lav or dunn or chocolate and white variety. Very pretty. DM are yours copper and lav? Trying to pictures this. I also notice that anything that isn't a BCM lays...
  9. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Ever hear of 'Isabella" Marans?
  10. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Thank you for answering. This looks a lot like hyper melanosis. Think Silkies and Cemani. I am seeing the black in the waddles and comb but its also in the skin on the face. I wonder if this is a through and through trait like the Cemani. Interesting. I have two little cockerels starting...
  11. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Okay this is a term I haven't heard. Does it mean dark through and through? Thanks for the comparison and thanks DM for the info. I will have to see what happens here. I think Pink Chick makes a good point about developments up to sexual maturity. When raising certain breeds you HAVE to...
  12. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    And I like both these alright so I must be missing something. Ellaborate??
  13. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    DM- when you say 'too much white' would you post a picture of what qualifies as too much and as just right... gosh where is Goldylocks? We could call her Copper locks! ha
  14. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I thought I was a toughie when I started. The first flock I ever had was processed for meat at a few years old along with some meat birds. Then I didn't keep chickens for a while. Recently I culled every single chicken I had here. THAT was tough. I processed a few for meat and while that is...
  15. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Okay... so, what do you do with a mossy chicken? what do you do with a cockerel? What do you do with a mossy chicken when you've had your fill? To the tune of drunken sailor. I hate getting rid of chicks. Esp when they are cockerels and you know no one wants them.
  16. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    okay going to try again because I didn't type my question well the first time despite trying: I have a young bird here, still feathering in. It has all the right stuff... but it has extra. By extra I mean that there are some mahogany flecks or chips on the ends of the feathers where you...
  17. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Keeping in mind that it can also take a few weeks for the egg bloom to settle on the egg. THEN the eggs at the beginning will be dark. Don't go eating a chicken that lays something blotchy at first.
  18. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Chick question: Mossiness=brown down. When they feather in and show copper or mahogany 'chips' on their feathers all over is this something they molt out or is it an early sign of too much color in a bird? There isn't any specifically in their hackles or breast, but all over random. They...
  19. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    This is lovely. I hope the cuckoo pattern comes in stronger. I happen to love really good barring in a bird, not a man.
  20. ashandvine

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    FINALLY!!! I finally have a Marans chick hatched out. I had fertility issues for a bit because this one pullet just kept getting out, the stinker. This is a bit of a different tone than the last few posts. Sorry if I am a warm/wet blanket here. Now... on to sexing chicks. edited to add pic
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