Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Mountain Mel]

I just put 4 more BCMs

( 3 pullets and 1 Roo that already has nice copper hackles) in my main coop and that up-and-coming Olive Egger Roo decided that he would "welcome"

the newcomers to the coop. He must have been pretty proud of himself because now, for the first time in his life, he is crowing (or at least trying to).

 

[birdygirl123]

Congrats Pink on your award..

 

[birdygirl123]

LOVE your pictures!.. I need some of those splash marans!.. They are pretttyyyyy..

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[Cadeau]

Don (and anyone else "in the know"!)

The other day, you said my roo might have a "thumbprint" in his comb.
I checked out his comb and looked at my 3 juvenile guys, but I'm still not sure what you're talking about...

I do have one juvenile with a wave to the front of his comb, so he's out, right?

Can anyone show pics of thumbprints in the comb??



Where on the hierarchy of "sins" would this fall?

 

[Cadeau]

Gorgeous Blue CM roo!! I need one like that!! Love the blues!


Those Splashes are gorgeous, too!

 

[snowbird]

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This time of year I just do not have an example of the fault here to show you. If I remember the Thumbprint was on the right side of the comb. What it is a deep impression of pushed in meat causing the comb to have pushed in effect. The bird with the wave as you say has a twisted comb and is a fault. The only problem with breeding these faults is they will replicate themselves. Much easier to just not use them.

 

[birdygirl123]

Would this help?.. I googled and found.. .. Lisa, I hope you dont mind me showing your picture. Thought that it would help

 

[birdygirl123]

I would like to better understand too.. Link here ; https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5931439

 

[Hens and Roos]

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So have you been seeing this just on the roosters? I have 2 blues that have the shorter outer toe and was hoping for at least 1 girl

I will have to take pictures and see what developes.

Aren't those the 2 that you hatched from my eggs? Do you remember which eggs they hatched from? I suspect I know egg-zactly which gal is laying it.

I think they were marked Gnarles x BCM but beyond that I don't remember the date or anything else- somedays I'm lucky my head is attached!!

time will tell how they turn out- although I did read Geebs post to DH and he gave me a funny look- he's hoping for all pullets!

 

[sabella]

Well, we survived the tornadoes! One of my EEs is sick from stress but the rest of the chikkies are doing great. A tornado touched down around a mile from my house. It jumped us thank God and we have NO damage! We had no power / water for 36 hours though.

These pics are a mile from my house. The first used to be an old barn and a pair of silos, the second is a woodlot across the street from the former barn. Those silos are smeared over a mile.