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

    Quote: Can't tell from those photos. We need individual pics -- and they need a good bit more age on them, too.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: The brown one looks to be a severe example of the trait referred to as "mossiness". Unfortunately, it's a pretty common problem in the black copper variety. Fortunately, though, the chick may molt out those brown feathers and look at least relatively normal by the time it matures. Enjoy...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I always get very excited by a first egg. Congratulations! That egg is not very dark, BUT pullets often start to lay darker eggs over their first week or two of lay. So your girl may just be revving up her paint jets, you never know. And even if her eggs never get any darker, I always...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

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

    Quote: Hey Pinkchick -- May I save your pics to use as educational material on the MCC web site? I'd appreciate it!
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Most of my Marans roos are fine....but I've got a coupla evil ones, too. Like anything else, it's an individual thing!
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: There are a few bantam Marans breeders on the MCCUSA yahoogroups list. You should join the list and ask!
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Very pretty eggs!
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: That definitely depends on who you speak to. I personally prefer the LOOK of a clean legged Marans. HOWEVER, the APA will only be accepting the feather legged version. Therefore, if you want your birds to meet the standard, you'll have to breed for feathered legs. Also, the breed was...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Personally, I'd go ahead and get the Ameraucanas out of there. You might end up having to help the Marans hatch. Some people don't like to do that, but I am much too impatient myself.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: It's a DQ. People often forget that Marans are NOT supposed to have heavy feathering on the legs. The French standard used to specify SPARSE leg feathering. I don't remember whether it still specifically says that or not. Too many people breed for heavy leg feathering, and they really...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: That's what people are talking about when they discuss "mossy" BCs. It does seem to correlate with carriers of the wheaten gene, but that is not proven to be a 100% correlation. It also *appears* to correlate with layers of very dark eggs, so if you get a pullet that looks like that you...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: The problem is not with the *question*, but with the ANSWERS that you would be getting. There are just too many hard feelings on all sides. It's like waving a red flag in front of a bull. It's better for you to check the clubs out for yourself, or at least ask people for their...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: You need to check them out for yourself. We already have trouble keeping politics out of this thread!
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: There are several "groups" -- yahoo groups and such -- but right now there seems to only be two active or at least semi-active "clubs" in the US. Those are the Marans Chicken Club USA, and the Marans of America Club.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    In case anyone is keeping track, 6 wheatens and 4 blue coppers hatched by last night. Unfortunately, my little duckwing Wellie egg didn't hatch!
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Those are both pullets. By that age, wheaten chicks will have obvious color differences. The cockerel will be mostly black across the back.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    I'm always in desperate need of a good carpenter. Cmon down!
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Nobody should be. That's a pretty good fertility rate. ETA: the eggs are busy hatching even as we speak. Wheaten eggs that I'm hatching for a friend, plus even more blue coppers, and if I'm a very good girl and cross my fingers just right, maaaaaaybe one DUCKWING Welsummer......
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I'm supposed to have chicks hatching tonight. I haven't checked yet today. Don't worry too much about such a brief outage. You ought to do just fine!
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