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Quote: If there are BC Marans out there without Wheaten blood added I do not know who has them, It is basically a process of breeding and doing alot of culling. there might be someone that knows who has some Pure BC Marans, I sure do not know myself. Don
Thanks Don ,If there are BC Marans out there without Wheaten blood added I do not know who has them, It is basically a process of breeding and doing alot of culling. there might be someone that knows who has some Pure BC Marans, I sure do not know myself. Don
Thanks Don ,
This is what i was thinking also . From what i can gather this is the way Marans were created(combo of different bloodlines) and later shipped same over to US .
James
If they look like this, most of my hatchlings look this way. Legs have always turned correct colour with time...........I got a bunch of hatching eggs from this web site in hopes of hatching out a few more hens. Only two hatched and BOTH have yellow feet. Is this a sign of wheaten or just poor animal husbandry? My current girls have beautiful black feathered feet, these chicks will not be up to spec and will have to be eliminated. Are the egg color breeding people throwing in breeds that would create this disqualification?
Anyone know a solid, reputable source for FCM eggs and chicks that are up to SOP, at least close? Yellow feet are not acceptable.
So dissapointed.
Just like other breeds and varieties they were made from a combo of different chickens(different colors) that started producing the dark egg ....... they were then bred specifically for the dark egg with no concern for different colors/patterns .................. but the problems arose/came about when they tried to make Show birds out of them (exactly the same thing with us in the US) ... and the problems will continue .From what I have gathered, alot of the crossing colors happened in France, well before the Black Coppers were sent here, so it's pretty much what the US has to deal with, and probably the French since a great portion of their population was mixed also.
Some of my chicks look like these with the pied faces, others are very black without the face markings. I have not noticed yellow legs but now I'll have to check the youngsters when I'm in the barn tonight.
Same here, pink to yellowish at hatch, turning slate over time. I usually don't start culling until 8-12 weeks, unless it is something like a physical deformity, that I will cull earlier if it's something that will prevent them from at least getting big enough to eat.So they will turn black in time. I will give them some time to grow and hope to get some darkening.