Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Debbi]

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Debbi, she turned out beautiful!

She did, but see, that's what I mean, I don't think it's consistent. Geebs says her overwhites end up with too much copper. I would like to see a solid correlation between excessive white chickdown and excessive something in adulthood.

Well, we'll see here this weekend what happens when you breed over x over melanized birds together. Some say you get all dark birds. One other told me they got some very colorful birds out of that type of breeding.

I'm not going for color this time around with these, but more for the size. The pullets all have pretty long backs. One boy has a decent back, the other's is a tad shorter than I'd like, but both are built like brick outhouses! If I get a bunch of light colored down on the chicks, I would tend to believe the lighter the down, the darker the bird. If I get dark chicks and colorful birds...I'll be thrilled!

Lockdown is tomorrow...

 

[snowbird]

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I came to the Wolverine State of Michigan from Tenn. as a 18 year old. I love the Michigan Wolverines I live 20 mile from Ann Arbor. Don

 

[FireTigeris]

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So since you have less then 500 birds, and I have less then 50 birds, what would it take to get you over here to do mine too? (cost of vaccine used + time + gas money = supper and Money?)

 

[math ace]

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So since you have less then 500 birds, and I have less then 50 birds, what would it take to get you over here to do mine too? (cost of vaccine used + time + gas money = supper and Money?)

If you order the vaccine and store it in your frig - - - Dh and I will come over and help you mix and vaccinate your flock.

It really isn't hard to do, but the directions don't include a good photo and it is easier just to have someone show you how to do it the first time.

When I ordered the vaccines, I ordered enough for several hatches since that is what I am doing this year.
We are going to vaccinate our babies this weekend if you want to come watch, Otherwise we will come to you once you get your vaccine in

Just PM me and let me know what you want to do!
The vaccines run $8 - $10 a bottle. I would share my bottle with you, BUT by the time I mix it and do our flock and then travel to your flock . . . . the clock would be ticking to long. . . . REMEMBER, I live way out in nowhere ville . . .

 

[math ace]

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Dh wants to know how many birds you have that need to be vaccinated and how old are they ?

 

[geebs]

My best colored males as adult have had minimal white... THe white around the beaks and a small bib.... The ones with lots of excessive light colored down have produced at least at this point overcolored juveniles.... I am talking about males only here. The darker male subjects with hardly any bib and just a minimal white at the corner of their mouths have been excessively black with not enough color in the saddle. This is my experience using different males and different females. Brown chicks have been mousy black with considerable bleeding through of color and excessive color on the bird also as adults.

 

[math ace]

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Geebs = = > Copy and paste this posting into our BCM thread. I am do to take 3 month old pics this weekend of my birds in the 6 month study. It will be interesting to see how my birds compare to your observations

I swear Geebs, that study thing was the best idea EVER. ... Better than Peanut Butter and Molasses sandwhiches

 

[loprettaerin]

Here are a few pictures of the chicks I have been hatching out. Will take some more when they stand up better.
black copper

wheaton

all 4 together 2 wheatons, 1 blue, and 2 bcm

All that I hatched out so far have a couple straglers still hatching.

I'll take some better pictures when they are more willing. We took these when we were hunkered down in basement during the storm we just had.

 

[Debbi]

loprettaerin

Cute babies! Congrats!! We had a lot of wind and lightning here, but not a drop of rain! Storms went to the south of me, thank goodness. Usually, I get slammed every time we have a thunder storm. Basement??? LUCKY YOU!! Here, it's grab a handful of carpet in one hand, and a big dog in the other, and PRAY!!

 

[Debbi]

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Interesting Geebs. So far here, the excessively light colored roo (Fugs, who is long gone) turned out to have the best color of any cockerel I have had yet, BUT he had white feathers in the base of his hackles. He had a lot of yellow and white down as a chick. The two dark boys I have now were what I would call normally colored as chicks with the tuxedo pattern of light down. Pip, who has the Hulk Hogan hackle thing going on was also a more normally colored chick, neither dark nor light. All of them had white primaries, Fugs and Pip having the most as chicks. As for the pullets, the light one turned out dark, the normal one turned out dark, and the black one turned out dark!