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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I agree, your humidity was too high... Around 40-45% seems to work best for me, and hatch around 55%. Better luck next time.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Quote: My flocks have never thrown a single clean legged chick in three years. Ron Presley, Wade Gene, and Bev Davis origin. Nor wheaten. Sometimes I get excessive red on the breast, and some mossiness and a shorter than normal outer toe though.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    The owner is a very nice lady, administrator for some ag dept in the school system in so cal. I had told her about BYC and how helpful and knowledgeable the members are, and that it was a kid friendly site, well moderated and just a generally good site for info sharing... I am too ashamed of the...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I'ts a hen. Photos deleted. Forget it. Sorry i posted. I have avoided this thread for a long time, and figured I'd give it another chance. I will post pics in the other thread. Thanks all that participated. I was hoping for a serious answer to a genetic question.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I was at someone's house today, and saw this hen in her marans pen. I was wondering if she is a salmon. Any guesses?
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    wow! that was a NICE young roo!!!! So sorry for your loss, and welcome to byc.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Not sure what I have. They are small. Their parents are full sized. They were in the same pen with birds that grew full sized on the same feed, light, space, time as this pair. Their parents were my Wade Gene/Ron Presley pen, big ol gentle roo and (of course) my one brown butted mossy hen. Gah!!!
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I started a new thread to talk about bantam marans, or dwarf, or small or what have you. I think any discussion here would be buried within minutes and hard to keep track of. If any of you have hatched out "small" marans, please feel free to post pics and share any info...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I posted earlier asking if any on here had an opinion as to whether too much melanizer, or to LITTLE melanizer was harder to breed out. No guesses were posted. I have another question, which will likely get as many answers, but I'm asking it anyhow. Which tail fault do you think is harder...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    PS, I sure hope there is time to get "flaming hackles" into the proposed standard. Almost every roo posted has it to some degree or another, and it is beautiful to my way of thinking.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    so which have any of you found harder to breed out, too much melanizer, or too little? I have had some of both. Tried breeding both. Disliked the outcome both times, but sometimes kept one or two otherwise exceptional breeders. Too little melanizers almost ALL the pullets were solid black. Too...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I have a splash hen reputedly of Bev's line. I never handled her much, but when I go in their pen and sit a spell to watch them, she will walk right up to me, and I pick her up, set her on my knee, and I will pat her back like you would pat a big dog, Pat Pat Pat, like it sorta knocks the wind...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Keithallen, I like your roo. I'd use him if he was here. I'd like to see his wing stretched out so you could see the flights, how they look up closer to where the feather shaft is bare. Lot of ince looking roos running around with quite a bit of white hid out there, including my own roosters, in...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    The market will bear it. I have sold pullet chicks, even day old ones for $50. Day old, or four months, whatever. I just guarantee pullet. If it crows, I'll trade them out for a pullet.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    The golden from the golden cuckoos generally is derived from crossing in Copper Black with the cuckoo, from what I have read. Not saying that is the only way to get other colors to show up in a golden cuckoo, just saying that copper black does not produce chipmunk markings and neither does...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Hate to burst your bubble, but the chickmunk stiped one is likely a mutt, or at the very least a different breed. Definitely not marans.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I have come across that fault from birds I got from other people, sworn to be pure Bev Davis, but had white earlobes, side sprigs on the comb and flighty disposition. DEFINITELY not what I generally experienced with Bev's stock from other people, which were large, friendly, no side sprigs, red...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I think a person could outcross marans for color if they wanted to. I also think it would take YEARS to get back to standard conformation and good egg color and to breed true... If a bird looks and lays right and breeds true, that would be pure enough for me.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Koolduck, if you were closer I'd snatch that cuckoo roo up in a split second to beef up my barred olive eggers! How much does he weigh?
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