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

    No, it was from a breeder in central Ky..I found him on ebay by accident.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    I got some nice Blue copper Marans eggs coming this week..The hens were all Bev Davis stock and the rooster was Wade Gene stock. Should make for some nice birds..
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Wait until they grow up. The boys will develop larger and redder in combs in a few weeks, although that's not always 100%. My last four, I promise you could tell from the hatch..The roosters combs were 4X larger than the pullets from the get..
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Looks like you have a pair of roos. Thats what Im afraid..It would be about my luck.. I had 4 power outages while i was incubating two different cluthces of black copper marans eggs..I got 4 out of the first batch (two pair) and two out of eight on the second..The second suffered...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Here are two 5 week olds..I could easily tell the other two pair from hatching..These two's combs have grown at different rates than the last four it "seems"..One is a little bit larger than the other and has just a hint of pink to it?? What do you think? Maybe some of you folks with more marans...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Two pairs of black coppers..2 months old.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    I have two day old in the brooder and four three week olds..the combs seem to be more pronounced even in the day olds to me..At a day old two of them had larger yellow combs and two had very small black combs Im hoping Im right anyway
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Here are four BCM's I hatched out about 5 days ago..Notice the one on the left has two white stripes on its head..They are in a rubber brooder for tonight and they go out to the big brooder tomorrow..Powers been out and i had to take them to my sisters for the last four days.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    On heavily speckled marans eggs, does the specs come into play on the color chart at all? Im getting a few cuckoo eggs that might make a "4" on the chart but have many, much darker speckles.. Then I have one hen whos ink jets must be broken The eggs are kinda rough in texture and show a few...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Are her legs white or yellow?
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15726_egg_color_chart_marans_club.jpg COMPARE... Your darkest is about a 3-4 and your 2 lightest don't qualify as marans eggs. ~4kidZ Thats about what I was thinking..Some I get from other hens arnt even that dark but thats expected...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    How would you all rate these cuckoo eggs..They are beside a rhode Island red and and Buff orphington for comparison..These eggs are from one of my hatchery hens..
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    My cuckoos are directly decended from hatchery birds..They were free as the eggs were givin to me by a friend and I hatched them..Three are laying so far..The first pic is the first hen that layed..In the second pic the first two decent eggs came from two different hens and the last three...
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