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

    Geebs, you have such good insight into the finer points of Marans breeding. This link I believe directly translated from the French also speaks to achieving color balance in the male and female: http://www.heavensentranch.com/maransclubdefrancestanda.htm In regard to leg color, if someone is...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    I'm finding it interesting that there is so much focus on light legs (not just in the last few pages, but it seems to crop up often in regards to desired traits) as I thought I'd heard that grey was permissible, some sources say desired (shows the lack of Wheaten gene?) so I looked up the...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Thanks! No that's not Charmin...lol the first one is Isabelle and the second photo is her sister #5 (no name yet). Their other sister #4 doesn't have as much copper as they do but she has fantastic type and lays the darkest egg in that coop. CP~ I just tell myself that they are...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Alan~ Here is my Isabelle and one of her sisters. Isabelle https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/11170_imgp5992.jpg #5 https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/11170_imgp6001.jpg Pinkchick, Love your roo and gals. Your coops are pink! I guess I'm not a girly girl...my...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Incubators are empty? Just letting the broody have at it then? It is so much easier letting the girls do the work I have 4 that have gone broody . I don't want to put eggs under all of them-don't have a wire bottom cage to put them in to break them, don't have enough pen space to...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Happychick...Marty sounds like an awesome roo. I love it when breeders talk about their birds like this.., it's shows that they are not just breeding for egg color and type, but temperament. I have several girls I just love....but a couple of roo's have a special place in my heart
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: WoW!! I know this is the Marans thread, but those blue eggs are stunning!
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I thought so as well geebs. I did a little back searching and found the above quote. Resolution does not actually say that they imported birds, though, sounds more like a research mission. A little further down however it does speak of Martha's friend as having "heirloom linage of this...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Well if I understand your math, I'm older than you....but all the birds on this farm have laid by 24 weeks....my Marans between 17 and 20 weeks, so am I younger than you in chicken years?
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Cool! It is pretty forgiving, I don't even measure anymore after making it a half a dozen times. I once didn't hear my timer going off, and it cooked an extra 15 min., but it was still good. I do put foil wrap over the crust edges to keep them from getting too brown, removing it for the...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Good link. Under Blue Copper female it says "Head=Lemon". Whats that about?
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Nice work! So we should be breeding for a "Reddish bay" eye. It wouldn't be fun without a challenge!
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Thanks! I agree, your girl has beautiful lacing! That is one of the things I really like with them! Here is one of my Blue Marans. She is sooo sweet! http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab31/kathyinmo/1-21-10%20flock%20pictures/flock2-18-10135.jpg And another ...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Kathy, your Blue Marans are lovely... Regarding the Black and Blue Copper, this is my understanding (and take this with the caveat that I'm a relative "newbie to Marans) is that the varieties are compatible with each other in the same way that B/B/S are in other varieties. I got my Blue Copper...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Beautiful egg Havi!
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I think your roo has a very nice profile-very pleasing body shape, comb and tail, and his hackle and saddle feathers are a nice shade of copper. If you breed him look for cockerels that have his good characteristics, but with less red on the breast. I hope others with more knowledge...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Awesome eggs, drom!
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I'm a newbie at this, but I've been looking at lots of pictures and trying to learn myself, and he looks very nice to me. His eye color is good, as well as his coloring, his comb is very proportional to his body...his body is nice and solid. The red on his breast looks to be the...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    My Blue Copper has laid 12 eggs in 20 days. Unfortunately, she hasn't gotten quite the hang of laying in the nest box, and keeps dropping them off the roost at night. I caught the roo in her pen showing her how to sit in the nest, and will stand next to her when she's in there, leaning over her...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Could it be Blue Wheaten or Splash Wheaten (if there is such a thing). With my Wheaten Ameraucana hatch, I had white chicks and yellow chicks..I'm pretty sure the whites became wheaten and the yellows blue wheaten, though. Wheaten Marans are normally yellow chicks?
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