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  1. Illia

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Haha, there are so many people who sell "Davis" or "Jeane" birds who are far from the originals chosen and bred by the breeders themselves. Especially Wade Jeane. And then there's the people who try and put their own name on their Marans lines, even though it is obvious they've only had Marans...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: The roo coloring is a fascinating thing to get into because there's more to look for, and he's the one covering everyone. For a hen, you simply need a solid black with some good copper hackling on the neck. Not too much that it drapes down to the back, and certainly not anything like...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    My eldest cockerel, Maple, CROWED today!!!! I've been waiting and wondering for a while now when my boys would start crowing. . . It gets me all jealous and stuff hearing other people complain that their cockerels started crowing. I wanted mine to start their new "howl"
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Yes, you can breed feathering back into their legs, but it will take some generations to get full feathering (no offspring with clean shanks). It takes focus on who's got both feathered shank genes, and who doesn't.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    . . . My opinion on the Blue Birchens is that almost everyone has unfinished examples. Even as it says on Bev Davis' site, which I do realize is old, they have a long way to go. Blue Birchens, far as I would think - Should not have any yellow to them, and should certainly look like a normal...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I would've still taken a picture of it, or at least preserved the shell bits and taken a picture of them elsewhere. - Have you seen how many people take photographs of "Their first egg" - A softshelled splat on the ground?
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: They're telling you to bid on the SLB eggs. Man I cannot wait to have a bunch of broodies. . . .
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Drom, I'm so jealous. . . My Wheaten boys are freaks. Especially my Blue Wheatens. . . They will make the biggest drama king scene if they even see me eye them.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Gosh I'm just the opposite. I just don't really like bantams. . . Those bugged eyes, tiny baby faces, and squat little legs. . . I like my chickens normal sized or huge. I wouldn't mind if I had some roosters over the SOP weight, just as long as they didn't pass it on too much or...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Kathy you are SO cheating.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: And so if the French Standard calls for about 7 pounds, and we're trying for the French Standard. . . Yeesh.
  12. Illia

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Okay here's my oldest Black Copper boy, Maple. He's 2 months old, and guess what? He's 5 pounds!! He's as big as my LF Polish and probably weighs more than them.
  13. Illia

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Okay, NOW it makes sense. . . 14 pounds. Wow. I can't wait until my boys reach that. I remember the average weight being somewhere above 10 pounds, I just couldn't imagine it being 14. . .
  14. Illia

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Curious, anyone here know exactly how much their Marans roosters weigh? . . . Because I always (gasp, also talking non-Marans) thought Ameraucanas and Easter Egger roosters should weigh 5-6.5 pounds. Well, I know for one that the last and only Marans rooster I saw in my life must have...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Lots of problems last night .... couldn't even post (or posted 4 times!), etc ... At least you didn't post 24 times. I'll get some more photos of Maple. . . Got some excellent shots of him in his "bachelor pile" - A literal pile of a bunch of cockerels dustbathing.
  16. Illia

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: No thanks.
  17. Illia

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain : Quote: Nice pair!! My cockerels never get their saddle coppering in THAT early. . . He's 10 weeks old. Ya, he's got a little bit of a bald patch on his saddle that's growing out nice copper. I'm very excited to see how he turns out. 10 Weeks? . . . Oh. I thought he...
  18. Illia

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Mrs. AK-Bird-Brain : OK (Geebs!) here are the last two from my Feb hatch... http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k270/vyancey/Chickens/IMG_7323.jpg http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k270/vyancey/Chickens/IMG_7326.jpg http://i90.photobucket.com/albums/k270/vyancey/Chickens/IMG_7329.jpg I am...
  19. Illia

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Seriously, the last Wheaten / Blue Wheaten eggs I bought, I got 15 eggs. . . . 6 were fertile, then. . . 3 hatched. Guess what?! ALL boys! The nice thing is that my supplier was SO kind when we bought sexed Wheaties from her, she charged us half price because of our luck with the eggs.
  20. Illia

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Wow I only see TWO cockerels out of that whole bunch. Take a look at my Wheatens I posted earlier - The cockerels will usually feather in much later, and their wings are a nice solid brown and black. You've only got two - The two that constantly show up in the photos as kinda naked with...
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