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  1. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    looks pretty masculine to me.
  2. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    NOT incorrect. I was stating what was in the French standard. I did not say that the American standard stated differently. The French standard is working with French birds, we are not, unfortunately. Re-reading the post in question, I can see how that could be misconstrued. I was trying to...
  3. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Don't mean to get anyone's panties in a twist. The French standard (not American, not British) calls for "lightly feathered legs". As DMRippy pointed out, we don't have any pure French lines in the US, and breeders are trying to breed to the original French line. Lot of work involved there...
  4. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Relax everyone, its a joke! While the velociraptor was a real dinosaur, it was made currently popular as the bad guy in Jurassic Park. It is portrayed as a very fast birdlike dinosaur with a voracious appetite, kinda like a mini Tyrannosaurus on speed. Gander, that pic makes him look like a...
  5. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Convince me by showing me pure French birds with correct shank feathering throwing chicks with clean legs. If you have correctly feathered parents throwing clean legged chicks, you gotta wonder where that's coming from, and it isn't the chicks.
  6. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I think he is expressing the recessive velociraptor gene!
  7. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    OK, I'm busted! I meant FBCM.
  8. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    The non feathered shank variety was developed in England in the 1930's, they were using a cuckoo variety, and wanted clean shanks to distinguish it from other varieties. There was a livestock embargo in place at the time, so fertile eggs were smuggled in in someone's lunchbox as hard boiled...
  9. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    You mentioned FedEx had "climate controlled" shipping. How do you know they wouldn't assume it needed to be shipped frozen?
  10. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I have never hatched eggs, and will be the first to admit I'm pretty ignorant about it, but it was my understanding that chilling the eggs would kill them?
  11. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    LOL DMR! I live in Marana, Az. I realize it's a typo, but marana is Spanish for a sow with piglets! I was just talking to desertmarcy about that chick and its lack of leg feathering.
  12. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    X2! I generally keep 1 cockerel per 5 pullets when they're young. When problems start arising (and they will), I cull the worst offenders until I have a ratio of 1 to 10. If I have an offender that has outstanding traits otherwise, he gets a separate pen. But for the added trouble, he has to be...
  13. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Save me a few DM! Talked to the property owner today, and things are moving ahead!
  14. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Looks almost like it has some RIR blood.
  15. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Apparently so. Looks like you have one! Not recognized by ABA, FBI, CIA or NASA. (NSA declined to comment). Congress is forming a study group. First they have to pass the Chicken Tax to fund it. It's an uphill battle on the Chicken tax. The Dems are all for it, but thinks the government should...
  16. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    copper splash?
  17. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Go to the Breeder and Hatchery forum and look for breeders near you. You can also go to the Where Am I forum and look up the thread for Virginia, and ask on that forum for local breeders. As desertmarcy mentioned, some breeders will ship to you. If you go the "sight unseen" route, RESEARCH...
  18. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Sorry I wasn't more clear in my post. Whenever I think mail order, I think mega hatchery. In point of fact, since you are so close to where I live, I was going to ask you about some BCM pullets (layers, not show birds). I am still negotiating for a new place, so may be moving soon. Need to hold...
  19. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Hey desertmarcy, don't take me wrong Mail order from a breeder is fine, I was referring to mail order from a hatchery. Take a look at the Cochin thread, and back a page or 2, look at the "partridge Cochin" a poster recently got from Meyer Hatchery. It definitely doesn't have partridge coloring...
  20. carnivore

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Your best bet is a local breeder if you want quality birds. Mail order is a throw of the dice.
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