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That's too cool. Have you hatched out any chicks from her to see what she's passes on? On my computer screen, it almost looks like she has a pea comb? What color are her eggs? I love the way she looks!
I've read ten days, but have heard numerous stories about hatches with surprise chicks from breeders who waited ten days. I now wait three weeks and have no worries about the purity of the eggs.
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Cackleberrycoop, thank you for the additional shots of the roos. . . .
You have some variety there and I have NO IDEA how that could happen
The first hen is really pretty and easy on the eyes.
The roos are total opposites of each other. The first one has a better tail and body...
So, anybody got any wheaten Marans photos they could post? I'm dying to see a true wheaten at this point. I'm about to dive into this gigantic thread in search of photos I know must be here already, but I'm not very hopeful that I'll actually find them in the 400 + pages; or if I do, I'm not...
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Thank you Mahonri, I sure get a kick out of having them in the yard. But, if you think the birds are pretty, you've got to see these eggs they produce!
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I hope you notice you have four different color birds. Someone just threw a bunch of birds in a pen and hatched chicks. Anyone wants to see what the brown soft feather under the vent looks like, check the second male, also notice the males do not have leg feathers
Thanks for...
Hello, can I jump in here with a question? I have two sister Marans pullets and their two brothers and I'm puzzled about the color variety that I'm seeing. I bought them as BCM straight run chicks and the two roosters have grown up into obvious BCM roos (at least to my untrained eye) and one of...