California - Northern

[lawatt]

Walt,

The Marans Chicken Club USA is showin an SOP for black also, but doesn't list a date it was accepted. It does show some winning birds on that page also. That is confusing me if you are saying Black has not yet been accepted.

http://www.maranschickenclubusa.com/Blackvariety.html

I have one black pullet growing out (she's about 3 months old now) who hatched from an egg from H & H Poultry, who supplied some of the photos on that page -- i can't wait to see what she looks like as an adult! although, all my other marans are birchens (except for one duckwing 3-month-old who is still gender uncertain), so not quite sure what to do with her, other than enjoy her beautiful black feathers!

 

[Happy Chooks]

It's official! I have a chick!

The one that hatched is the one who pipped this am.

I think the one who pipped 24 hours ago may be needed help

it zipped a tiny bit of the way but hasn't mad any more progress.....

My humidity was probably too low until this afternoon.

I got it up to 70 now.

Congrats!

She made it!! My CLB sweetheart girl made it!!! I'm so thankful! And so excited! What a nerve racking experience, but oh so awesome too! And I didn't intervene.

3 lovely little chicks all for me!

Thanks for all your support on this forum! I couldn't have done it without you!

Two more pipped. Two more nothing yet!

I'm thrilled!!

The first hatch ever is most intense! Sit on your hands and let them do it!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Ok. So I'm driving to see "happy Chooks" before the month is out. Since our baby will be here in May this will be one of my last trips off the mountain. If anyone is along the way with available chicks or eggs is love to know...

I can always meet you in Nyack too. (assuming good weather)

 

[PetRock]

Congrats to everyone hatching chicks this week!!!

My incubator is full with test eggs but I'm a few days away from candling to see if anything is developing. There are 3 eggs in there from my new black Langshan trio!!! They are the 3 that I care about the most!

 

[ronott1]

Congrats to everyone hatching chicks this week!!!

My incubator is full with test eggs but I'm a few days away from candling to see if anything is developing. There are 3 eggs in there from my new black Langshan trio!!! They are the 3 that I care about the most!

I hope they hatch!

 

[PetRock]

I hope they hatch!

Me too!!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Congrats to everyone hatching chicks this week!!!

My incubator is full with test eggs but I'm a few days away from candling to see if anything is developing. There are 3 eggs in there from my new black Langshan trio!!! They are the 3 that I care about the most!

Good luck! My birds have to start back up from molt before I can hatch anything. I only have 3 wellies laying right now.

 

[tommysgirl]

Was it a mistake to give my aunt's broody bantam and lf eggs? Is there anything we should do as we get closer to the hatch date?

 

[Audio51]

I am SO new to all this, but i think "in progress" means a bunch of breeders are working on getting those colors/types to something that is reproducible with enough regularity and predictability to call it an actual established color/breed strain -- whereas a "project" is a smaller number of breeders, or maybe only one, trying to produce a single line of a color/type.

I think i remember Walt aka @fowlman01 saying in another thread that the marans breeders had a "trial" (i'm not sure what to call it?) at a recent poultry show to test whether one of the marans colors (it might have been white? or cuckoo? can't remember) was ready for an SOP -- but said there was still so much variability that they have more work to do.

in other words, an SOP can't be established until there's a critical mass of birds that might conceivably meet it, over several generations of breeding, rather than just luck of getting a "right" bird here and there. and so the colors without SOPs are still just too variable to describe in such a formal way as an SOP.

someone who knows more about showing and standards PLEASE correct me where i'm wrong! just trying to piece this stuff together in my own head still... ?

I am extremely new at it too... Years ago I showed poultry (Silver Seabrights, Polish Crested, African Geese, Magpie Ducks) and my birthday present one year was a copy of the SOP...which I still have, but it was the 1985 edition. I still have that one. Many of the breeds I have seen discussed here were even around as far as having a standard back then. We moved to the house we are in now in 1997 and I have only just started keeping chickens again about 2 years ago. We have minimal property here and can't keep roosters, so no breeding for me. The closest I might come is to have my hens visit a rooster elsewhere. I wish I had the property and zoning to breed here.....

 

[Audio51]

It's official! I have a chick!

The one that hatched is the one who pipped this am.

I think the one who pipped 24 hours ago may be needed help

it zipped a tiny bit of the way but hasn't mad any more progress.....

My humidity was probably too low until this afternoon.

I got it up to 70 now.

Woo Hoo!!!! Love babies!