Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Ivywoods]

ignore my stupid spelling!

 

[math ace]

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I have blue copper hens that are light blue. I crossed them with a black copper roo. The result, the chicks are a darker blue. So, yes they complemented each other.


Blue x Black will produce 50% black and 50% blue offspring
Blue x Blue wil produce 25 % black , 50% blue, and 25% splash offspring.
Black x Black will produce 100% black.

 

[math ace]

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YOU ARE RIGHT!

I do need a MR potato head CHICKEN

 

[Raven1]

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I would like to place my order for a COMB like that!

Not only do I have the market on hatching cockerels, but I also have the market on the MOST UGLY combs. . .

I wish we could just order the body parts we want so that we could put the bird together the way we wanted to.

What you need is a MR. Potatoehead CHICKEN!

Too Funny

I do like his comb thanks

 

[Bravo]

Thanks Sib! I am going to look into it. I would hate to produce that defect so my uneducated gut feeling says err on the side of caution. We will see when the time comes. As for now, it little life is going to be pretty sweet.

OMG Math...you enabler! I did a count this morning and I have a crazy number of birds around here. I've lost my mind! I keep mitigating it with excuses like these little roos are going to new homes, these pullets are going to my flock in the country and these ones--well, they can stay LOL

I just posted some ads on CL to get rid of some of my BCM boys. Hopefully I can find some people with small hobby flocks that are interested in eggs. They arent total clunkers but I'm not near the SQ standard I'd like to be. Meanwhile, they are running around my backyard, digging dust-bath holes everywhere, harassing the resident hummingbirds and keeping the bug population virtually extinct lol. Chickens outside shouldn't go against my count, right?!?

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I am a FIRM believer in SHARING. . . . . I am still experimenting. I found a good way to contain the chicks, but the air flow in the incubator was blocked too much. Some have suggested making cages out of the plastc canvas with holes in it that is found in the craft department of stores like walmart, micheals, jo anns, etc. I am thinkning about trying that next. I have tried things with bigger holes that allowed really good circulation BUT I had some chicks escape from the holes. It is AMAZING how small of a hole the fat chicks can push their bodies thru.

I like the EXCUSE for a new incubator idea. . . . I like that a lot. I am running two now. I set one batch in one for hatching and the other for the first 18 days. . . . That way you can continously hatch by moving eggs into the the hatching incubator for the last 3 days . .. move them out and move the next set in for the last 3 days, move them out and move the next set in for 3 days. OF course you have to allow a few extra days for these slow pokin marans that seem to take a day or two extra to hatch.

I hatched a batch last weekend and a batch this weekend and another is waiting to go in the hatching incubator in 10 more days. . . .

WARNING: IT CAN GET CRAZY - - VERY CRAZY - - VERY VERY VERY CRAZY if you do this. I accidently put the last set of eggs in Lockdown 2 or 3 days EARLY because I messed up when I marked all these hatches on the calendar. I am GLAD that I am not hatching anything next weekend.

 

[Raven1]

Math here are 4 more of my boys combs
BCM

Splash

GCM

Back up GCM

The Splashes comb has a little frostbite damage it looked better before.

 

[VillageChicken]

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What you need is a MR. Potatoehead CHICKEN!

Too Funny

I do like his comb thanks

What color are his eyes in the sunlight?

 

[Raven1]

Pumpkiny orange! not dark

 

[AquaEyes]

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I have blue copper hens that are light blue. I crossed them with a black copper roo. The result, the chicks are a darker blue. So, yes they complemented each other.


Blue x Black will produce 50% black and 50% blue offspring
Blue x Blue wil produce 25 % black , 50% blue, and 25% splash offspring.
Black x Black will produce 100% black.

This is very interesting. So you're saying that Blue X Black will help maintain a darker color in the Blues than from Blue X Blue or Blue X Splash. But does breeding to Blue do anything to improve the Black? Do they become "too dark" from repeated Black X Black breeding? Are Blacks from a Blue X Black breeding better than from Black X Black breeding? Do most breeders who breed Black also keep some Blue for this reason?



~Chris

 

[Zanna]

This is very interesting. So you're saying that Blue X Black will help maintain a darker color in the Blues than from Blue X Blue or Blue X Splash. But does breeding to Blue do anything to improve the Black? Do they become "too dark" from repeated Black X Black breeding? Are Blacks from a Blue X Black breeding better than from Black X Black breeding? Do most breeders who breed Black also keep some Blue for this reason?

X2?

Also, if you breed a Blue Copper Roo to a Black Copper Hen (or visa versa?) is the blue offspring considered purebred and the black copper offspring considered purebred as well?​