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

    Finally got a picture of he one I call "ugly"
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    My March 13th BCMs are growing into beautiful little chickens. Except for that one cockerel who is downright ugly colored.....he managed to avoid the camera too, guess he knows it!! This is Fence, a BCM pullet ---- except she's almost 100% black. She has the heaveiest leg feathering The other...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I think the one that you call Cuckoo has an awful lot of white in it's wings at this point. I'm gonna vote roo.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Well of my 4 BCM cockerels, one is turning positively UGLY. He's got what seems like waaaay too much copper on his breast. Thankfully none of the others are looking that way, so it looks like I'll have some options when the time comes. They ARE still young yet (close to 3 months) but I'm not...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I did hatch mine and EE/marans cross could be in the mix. I know you shouldn't assume, but I thought with the black legs and feathered shanks it was pure, My bad! Not upset at all, just wish it was a pullet! I believe the feathered legs are a dominent trait, so only ONE parent has to...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: It's really too early to tell how they compare to the "standard" -- can take up to 6 months really. Since they are different colors I guess it's an easy choice of which color do you intend to breed for?? Rather than double posting...here's a picture of one of my BCM boys. He escaped...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I kinda got the impression that he just brought me all that he had at that age group. I asked for 6, and paid for 6 BCMs, but he gave me 8 chicks. I assumed he didn't want to have 2 lonely chicks left Before I get to speculating too much, I'd better call. Otherwise I'll have him...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I got 'em as day olds, on March 13th and we met locally. He did give me some eggs though for the color, said I could hatch them if I wanted to. They were nice and dark, but dunno what Puffy Cheeks actually hatched from. I ate them coz my bator was full, they were a lot paler yellow...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Good idea really, I'll have to dig up his contact info . . . wish me luck! LOL
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Hey! I got one of those!!!!!!!!!! He was given to me free when I got 7 Black Coppers, they called him a Blue Copper Marans......but I always knew somethin was off coz she had a puffy face..... Well she turned into a HE, and he's blue with a puffy face, funky comb, and feathered...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Soooooo out of my 8 Marans chicks.....I got 3 pullets. To compensate I bought 6 RIRs from the feedstore, sexed as pullets (from Ideal hatchery)
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Me too!! I currently have AT LEAST 9 roos from the "jailbird" pen (mainly barred breeds) + I think 5 roos from the "BCM" pen (BCMs + 2 others) AND + 7 mutt roos that I hatched. I'm only keeping: my RIR rooster, 1 CM cockerel, 1 Dominique cockerel, and currently all of the BCM...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: No wattle development at all, that I can see. Nothing compared to her big bubba (all the same age, probably related) They were hatched around March 11th -- (I've had them since the 13th) so they are close to 5 weeks old.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Here is a new picture of my "Puffy Cheeks" - she is definitely not feathered like the Marans, too fluffy, but I can't get over the comb. It's itty bitty small like a girl, but pinkish like a boy. Compared to the Black Copper Marans men she looks girly, but compared to the Cuckoo Marans pullet...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I know someone in Benton that has good BC Marans, and he's picky about what he keeps as breeding stock. I recently saw a beautiful cull of his, full grown roo, with a little to much red in the chest area, so I know for a fact he's culling hard for that. He has Bev Davis lines. He...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Well I have to say that if any animal was allowed to tresspass on my property, then yes I'd claim any valuables that it left behind. Keep your birds AND your dogs on your own property!!!!!!
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Well my first chicks from TSC included 3 White Leghorns --- and they are still with us a year later, despite one of them's frequent escapes out into the scary big world (her name is Houdini). If a hawk flies over, the roo calls and they all run under the deck. No losses yet. I consider raccoons...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Mine are a month old, uh, the 10th so these pix from a couple of days ago should be about what you were looking for: BCM cockerel in first pic, pullet in second, https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=3966890#p3966890 ETA: this is my similar aged Cuckoo Marans pullet...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Mine look like that, they are Davis-line chicks too. Honkin huge legs!!!!!!!! Ostrich, lol that's a good description. lol
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Tala, Culling does not mean killing. It simply means to remove from your flock, for whatever reason. You can sell them, or eat them, or whatever. Cull for excess, cull for poor type, cull for being a mean rooster, cull for ..... There's not much else to do with 8 extra roosters who...
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