Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[snowbird]

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When the middle toe is feathered it is usually on a bird that has heavy foot feathering. I have seen it on males and females. I would use a male from another line with sparse feathering. I have not seen in print what the penalty is for this. At one time I read that it was a DQ but after all the changes I can not find anything on the condition. Maybe Walt will see your post and comment.

No sense in culling these just use a male with less feathering. Don

 

[sabella]

PINK! You wicked woman! Now I NEED Croad Langshans!

 

[pinkchick]

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Good luck getting them and when you do would you be so kind as to share if you do?

 

[sabella]

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Good luck getting them and when you do would you be so kind as to share if you do?

Oh. I'm on a mission! I will hunt them like a hound on a scent. NEED.

Blast! Found a breeder but she's in England!!!! Blast!
It is nigh impossible to import birds isn't it?

 

[sabella]

Langshans were also imported to North America in 1878 and admitted to the standard in 1883. White Langshans were admitted to the standard ten years later in 1893.

They've got to be around here somewhere! *looks under the coffee table*​

 

[sabella]

Found it!! It is a Yahoo group. http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Langshans/ Hound on the trail baby, hound on the trail. I haz Ninja Powers.

*** JOIN THE AMERICAN LANGSHAN CLUB. *** If you are interested in meeting other Langshan breeders, being an active member of the only Langshan club in the United States would be a start. See the top Quality Langshans from the best Langshan Breeders in the country. The new club secretary information and for information on joining the American Langshan club:

Ronald Murry
P.O. Box 467
West Liberty Ohio 43357
Phone: 937-465-9447
Email: [email protected]​

 

[pinkchick]

I think maybe you could look under every coffee table in the U.S. and still not find any Croad Langshans. To my knowledge they are not in the States. Importing birds isn't impossible....it's just pretty darn expensive.

 

[Nigellas]

Oh. I'm on a mission! I will hunt them like a hound on a scent. NEED.

I got a beautiful Langshan from a member on here about 2 years ago - His name on here is "Polish" - If he doesn't still breed them, he may know someone who does.​

 

[Germaine_11.20]

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Hi Big!

From time to time some Marans may lay a chaulky whiteish to grayish purplish coated egg. When it is wet it should be a nice colored Marans egg underneath that coating. The coating should dry pretty quickly and as you watch it dry it will dry right back to that whiteish chaulky coating. Nothing to worry about, some pullets and hens can lay one every now and then and some can lay one almost everytime they lay. I believe its just extra heavy bloom that is deposited when laid. The only thing I found with these eggs is that they can be very hard to hatch. I had a Splash Marans hen that laid these eggs almost everytime she laid. I think last winter I tried hatching them all winter long and finally the last attempt with 6 of her eggs...a couple hatched. One lays a normal Marans egg all the time and the other lays a coated purplish one like her mother.

Yesterday I got one from a Black Copper pullet that normally lays a very dark egg.....yesterday's egg was actually a smokey lavender color, like the color of a Croad Langshan egg. In it's own right, it is a very pretty egg. I just took it out of the refridgerator and when it gets back up to room temp. I will get a picture of it for you. I have noticed that these types of eggs will get darker when cold, but sat back out at room temp. they will change back to the chaulky coated egg.

I have also had this same smokey purplish coating happen in my Welsummer eggs and Barnevelder eggs. I don't think that it is something that just happens in dark egg laying breeds, I believe it happens in all breeds and on the lighter tan to cream colored eggs it just isn't as pronounced or as easy to see as it is on the darker eggs.

Hi Pink,

I just wanted to add that diet may have something to do with the chalky eggs. I had a bunch of hens laying them and could not understand why. It lasted almost two weeks and they were back to normal.

I then remembered that I cleaned out the fridge and had given them alot of blocks of cream cheese that I bought over the holiday and then never got around to using. They loved it- gobbled it up. But then the chalky eggs started happening.

Since then, they get nothing with alot of calcium other than oyster shell (and they pig that down anyway)

So, I am not sure if this is what caused it but I am sure suspicious.

I am on page 73 and working my way up. And here I thought that nothing much was going on and I didn't need to get on....

 

[bigspringshatchery]

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Hi Big!

From time to time some Marans may lay a chaulky whiteish to grayish purplish coated egg. When it is wet it should be a nice colored Marans egg underneath that coating. The coating should dry pretty quickly and as you watch it dry it will dry right back to that whiteish chaulky coating. Nothing to worry about, some pullets and hens can lay one every now and then and some can lay one almost everytime they lay. I believe its just extra heavy bloom that is deposited when laid. The only thing I found with these eggs is that they can be very hard to hatch. I had a Splash Marans hen that laid these eggs almost everytime she laid. I think last winter I tried hatching them all winter long and finally the last attempt with 6 of her eggs...a couple hatched. One lays a normal Marans egg all the time and the other lays a coated purplish one like her mother.

Yesterday I got one from a Black Copper pullet that normally lays a very dark egg.....yesterday's egg was actually a smokey lavender color, like the color of a Croad Langshan egg. In it's own right, it is a very pretty egg. I just took it out of the refridgerator and when it gets back up to room temp. I will get a picture of it for you. I have noticed that these types of eggs will get darker when cold, but sat back out at room temp. they will change back to the chaulky coated egg.

I have also had this same smokey purplish coating happen in my Welsummer eggs and Barnevelder eggs. I don't think that it is something that just happens in dark egg laying breeds, I believe it happens in all breeds and on the lighter tan to cream colored eggs it just isn't as pronounced or as easy to see as it is on the darker eggs.

Thanks. Today she was back at painting i think. I collected two marans eggs from that pen and one was about a 7 and the other was a 5. One more question can the eggs get darker as they lay? I thought they got lighter. I get one from one of my 2 thats laying and one is close thats darker than it was with their first eggs.