Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[marquisella]

The hen that laid that egg only laid one a week....and then half of them didn't hatch.

Aloha e Marquisella,

That egg in your avatar is sick! Is that from one of your hens? looks like an 8!

How many days did that sit in her oviduct? Wow!

aloha, Puhi

 

[marquisella]

Quote: I said all black was not desired. I first quoted the standard, then I wrote about the color of my chicks feet. A while back, I posted a photo of a couple of chicks, I think then, the discussion was about Marans hatching with yellow feet if I remember correctly. It sounds like your chicks are correct.

I don't think over melanized hens lay darker eggs. They are 2 completely different things. At least it hasn't been my experience.

 

[GAIL328]

Thanks for the advice. I will try to work with him. Otherwise he has been so friendly following me around the yard with his 2 hens. We often find them on the deck looking in at us in the house. None of our other chickens even come on the deck. They will hang out with us while we're on our swing. I hope we can overcome this. He is low man on the totem pole as the two bantams chase him off all the hens. I guess he figures I'm the only one he can overpower.

 

[maryhysong]

The hen that laid that egg only laid one a week....and then half of them didn't hatch.

That's a shame. I suppose we should be looking for balance; dark eggs but enough of them, easy reproduction, as well as all the other things we are breeding for....

 

[Calpurnia]

These are everyone, right? I was told they are. Please tell me yae or nae?

 

[Calpurnia]

I think this one isn't full maran because she has the fluffy neck feathers... Americauna kind I think. What would ya'll think this hen is? I love love her color!

 

[tadkerson]

She looks to be an easter egger but she could be a black ameraucana. If she has slate shanks, pea comb and lays a blue egg she is an ameraucana. Check the bottom and center of her foot. If it is white she has white skin which means ameraucana-yellow is yellow skin which means easter egger.

Tim

 

[Calpurnia]

Thank you so very much, I'll go look ! I have given one away that was laying really beautiful blue eggs, she had the feathers fluffed out around her face too... but was a brown color... My black girls aren't laying yet SO it is suspensful.

 

[Calpurnia]

I'm a total newbie, if I breed my Copper Maran to that blue egg layer, I'll get an oliver egger?

 

[marquisella]

Thank you so very much, I'll go look ! I have given one away that was laying really beautiful blue eggs, she had the feathers fluffed out around her face too... but was a brown color... My black girls aren't laying yet SO it is suspensful.

Fluff around the face is called muffs. If it goes down under the chin, its a beard. Ameraucanas have both muffs & beards . Marans have clean faces, no muffs or beards.


Breeding Marans to Ameraucanas you can get birds that look just like either of the parents, or you can get mixes. Usually the tell tale signs are the muff and/or beards but Marans coloring. . Hope this helps.