Can someone show me a blue wheaten maran-hen and rooster

[wannabchick]

Photos would be awesome..I ordered marans- black copper and got 2 blue wheaten eggs also

Lmao, I put this question in the maran thread but afraid it might be some time..that thread moves to quick, so I thought I would try it here.

I see the photos of blue wheaten maran rooster..but no hens, and would love to see on one post

Anyone feel free to add in black copper maran hen and rooster too for comparison

I have 12 more days left...grow grow grow chicky eggs

 

[Debbi]

Sorry no one has gotten back to you on this. This weekend was the "approval" show for the Black Copper Marans to be included in the APA standards, so Marans folks are glued to the show and the news bits coming in.

As for the Blue Wheatens, basically, everwhere there would be black on a normal Wheaten cock or hen, there will be blue instead. You might want to try asking for pics in the Wheaten Marans thread, I know a few in there have Blue Wheatens. Sorry I can't be of more help, so far all I have is BCM and Blue Coppers.

 

[wannabchick]

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So it is more wheaten color with blues..ohhhhbokay

Not a black copper..instead of black but that dark grey they call blue?

Okay thank u so much that's what I wanted to know

Good luck to you all waiting for the maran info..
Xoxo

 

[huckleberryfarm]

I just posted pictures of my Wheaten Marans on the Wheaten Maran thread. My understanding is that it will look similar except that where mine have black, the Blue Wheaten have blue.

 

[Illia]

Blue Wheaten cockerel

My Blue Wheaten girl died before I got photos of her at laying age, so I just have Wheaten hens.

 

[wannabchick]

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Thank u..what a beauty!!

Sorry about your girl

 

[wannabchick]

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Thank u so much too
Xoxo

 

[AinaWGSD]

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Yep. The blue gene is a modifier gene. What it does is dilute any black pigment on a bird to dark grey-blue. It affects all of the pigment on a bird, so you can't have black and blue on the same bird. So a blue wheaten is wheaten with this modifier gene that changes the areas that would normally be black to blue.