Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Rainwolf]

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Very cute indeed... tho the wellle looks like it's head is abnormally large

edited to add its just the way the body/photo/colors and my eyes react... he's a good looking chick but when I first saw it I was "wow does that chicks head fit?"

 

[snowbird]

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Tannis, you are always welcome here as you know. Don

 

[AyeUpChuck]

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This is making me even more excited for tomorrow when I head up to meet Kim and pick up my fluffs!

 

[blackbirds13]

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that is one adorable picture!!!!

 

[math ace]

 

[berkeleysprings]

so i guess 1 sport out of 34 is great if that was my pile of birds from my flock i would guess around 7 hens and 27 roosters .....
so your gole is single mateing , so that means 6 months to come to age , lay eggs , from each single hens gather 5 or 6 eggs and see what comes up 7 months after that ,
gosh thats alot of leg bands , and paper work and more paper work . lol. lots of chicken fun , like planting a garden with unknown seeds and takeing alot of time to get any news 15 months later . lol . its all fun . i am doing a 1 to 9 ratio for chicks ,the rooster lives with hens full time .
improving marans (wheatens in my case ) is like watching a tree grow and i am 2 years 8 months in to it ,just hatching 3rd generation


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Randy , the brown one in the back is a wade jeane special, that one will be a cull eventually, Will wing band and take some pictures later to show what happens.

Just wanted to say to everyone these hatched on day 21 and have several more piping, I have two more Sportsman for the next two weeks and then will start single mating. When I take the balance out tomorrow will try and put another picture up , Thanks, Don

 

[syble]

i gave candling a go last night. looks like most have something going on, some i even saw the babies or veins, others i could barely see the slow moving 2 tone yolk sac (which to me has always indicated a resident haha), fingers crossed for a good hatch!
Thanks
Sib

 

[marquisella]

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I agree Sue. And aren't pure Black, Blue and Splash based on the Silver gene and created from Cuckoo's and not the Coppers ER Birchen gene? So creating a pure Black, Blue and Splash variety from Coppers would be virtually impossible and would be ER birds that are WAY over melanized?

Thanks for the info. I will keep a eye on him, but he is already starting to crow or practice at least.
And these birds are from BBS Maran's not BCM's. Though I have to say I like the looks of the Blue Coppers.

If for some quirk he is a pure black at 6 months what should I do? I can't keep him but would he be something maran breeders are looking for special? Thing is around here since I'm a urban chicken hatcher/breeder I can only have 1 rooster. I have my gentle giant Buff Orpington now until I find the Perfect Java rooster to keep and use as my breeder for black java's.
Since the city recently banned new roosters I normally end up culling roosters for freezer camp once they crow since so few people want a rooster. I would hate to cull a rare color bird that someone is working on though so I thought I'd ask you guys.

SO double checking that I'm understanding this (I'm sick on meds, it messes the head up

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1) If he develops copper he's a standard bird split with BBS genes right?
2) If he stays pure black this is rare and people are actively working on developing a pure black maran?

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I answered the way I did because you said you got a blue copper from the hatch. So that indicates to me, there is still copper lurking in the genes.

He might be valuable to someone working on pure blacks. You could advertise him as possibly being pure black, and add that he had hatchmates with copper so you are covering yourself....

Sue

 

[snowbird]

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Randy , the brown one in the back is a wade jeane special, that one will be a cull eventually, Will wing band and take some pictures later to show what happens.

Just wanted to say to everyone these hatched on day 21 and have several more piping, I have two more Sportsman for the next two weeks and then will start single mating. When I take the balance out tomorrow will try and put another picture up , Thanks, Don


Randy, there are 68 chicks in the box, will post the balance later when I take them out, should be about 40 more. I have already noticed some things that I am working on with these, I have about a dozen chicks that are a different mating that are really different. Don

 

[pinkchick]

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That's AWESOME Sib! Will be waiting for you to post fuzzy chickie pics when they hatch! Many more good vibes coming atcha for a great hatch!