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  1. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    i am not seeing it. none of the pics of the roos look like the standard FCBM in my opinion.
  2. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    what does FCBM roo count as in the color/pattern generator to see what you get when you cross birds? http://kippenjungle.nl/kruising.html this is the site i mean.
  3. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    so my FCBMs have been laying a bout a week, and today i got an ENORMOUS egg out of my mossy...picture HUGE (twice the size of the other pullets' eggs), and heavily speckled...just makes me love her more. i know i have said before i am in this for a utility bird with big dark eggs being the...
  4. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    finally getting eggs from my FCBM girls. the big speckled one shown here is from my mossy hen. shown with a white (leghorn), robin's egg blue (EE), and light brown (java) egg.
  5. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    geebs, we are bigger over time due to better sanitation, better diet, more protein, less illness, etc. etc. you can take folks who come here form a war torn country and their kids are automatically bigger within two generations--stress in the environment even plays a huge role! when talking...
  6. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    don, i'm no chicken expert BUT in grad school for anthropology and sociology, i learned that in humans, there is a normal bell curve distribution in the expected height of a child, with the most common frequency determined by the average of the mother's and father's heights. so i don't know of...
  7. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Quote: thanks geebs, and for the pm too. made my day and i am taking notes! i do have 30 birds but only ten FCBMs, soon to be a reduced to a breeding quartet. total in the pen will be 16 (EEs, OEs, CMs, and FCBMs) and there will be 2 EE roos, 1 FCBM roo, and 13 ladies. since i am just...
  8. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Quote: when i bought my birds i was told they were wade jeane line, but not until i asked. i assume the old lady was telling me the truth because she didn't have any idea what that meant, lol, and she raised a dozen varieties of birds, not a FCBM connoisseur.. i have no idea beyond what i was...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    geebs-- sorry for the confusion...you should be standing in the middle of 30 birds trying to take pics...now that's really confusing, lol. to simplify--all pics of the roo are of the single bird i *think* is the best i have got, not of multiple roos. but they are recent pics. i know i need...
  10. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    geebs, would you be willing to reply to post 2728 about my roo? :blush: i hate to bug you, but i've learned so much from you and if you have any time or energy for it i would sure appreciate your input. thank you and i feel like i should send you flowers or chocolates or something, i have...
  11. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Quote: when i bought my birds i was told they were wade jeane line, but not until i asked. i assume the old lady was telling me the truth because she didn't have any idea what that meant, lol, and she raised a dozen varieties of birds, not a FCBM connoisseur.. i have no idea beyond what i was...
  12. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    re: post 2728...it just warms my heart to be able to be helpful.
  13. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    ok, i have three roos to choose from. keeping only one. they are now 20 weeks and my husband is ready for chicken pot pie, so my loooong time for consideration and observation has to end. one is the biggest and has the best personality. compared to the other roos--best eye color, leg color...
  14. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Quote: wow, that surprises me but i guess that is a possibility. i know the breeder who hatched these and her fcbms are in a closed flock and no penes on site, and she supposedly got hers from a jeane-line breeder in missouri, but who knows? thanks for pointing that out. now you've got me...
  15. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    i am also very interested in a discussion of hackle color. geebs, you asked for updated pics...well i guess i should be too nervous to show my birds with ms. davis here but i am just gonna swallow the anxiety and share anyway. i'm just starting with the breed this year and the only way i can...
  16. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    but honestly, it is all part of the education process. Quote: I can help ya out there !
  17. haTHOR

    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    posting just to subscribe! my ten FCBMs (6.5 weeks and 12.5 wks) are coming along--still waiting on culling, as i am taking geebs' advice on seeing how the adult coloring, etc. comes out) and my 3 CMs are starting to lay. exciting stuff! thanks for the re-set, wynette! i'm interested in the...
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