Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Medicine Man]

Wow! Kathy those birds are gorgeous!

 

[Bravo]

Question--

I have a 5 week old BCM roo that is already developing a lot of coppering in the breast. Any chance this will change when he goes through his juvenile molt? I'm just trying to figure out if I should cull him now (while I have other people interested in feeding him until maturity

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This is caused by too little melanizers, right? I'm guessing it wont but thought it was better to understand it fully by checking with the pros here!

 

[flgardengirl]

Nice birds Kathy. I

those two blue pullets. So gorgeous!!

 

[math ace]

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If I have this correctly . . . You would pair him with super dark hens - - if you have any.

It will not change and get better. If you are seing tons of copper NOW, you will only see more later.

If you don't have hens that would compliment him - - - Then I would give him a new home

 

[Bravo]

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If I have this correctly . . . You would pair him with super dark hens - - if you have any.

It will not change and get better. If you are seing tons of copper NOW, you will only see more later.

If you don't have hens that would compliment him - - - Then I would give him a new home

Oh, he's so gone.

I'm looking at my brooder of what appears to be 11, 5 week old cockerels. I'm starting to weed them out

TY Lisa!

 

[HenThymes]

Hello everyone.

I just wanted to pop in and share my happy news. I am the proud mom to 9 new Black Marans chicks born yesterday.

To boot they are French.

They are out of beautiful dark eggs, can't wait to see them grow!

 

[youngbiddy]

Alright, y'all got to slow down or I'll never catch up on this thread. LOL
Page 760 now, and thanks for all the good info. Okay, back to work....

 

[youngbiddy]

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I know this is an old post, but I found this interesting. The first thing I thought when I saw VC's cockerel was that I had one with a comb just like it, then I read further and saw the little guy had residual white tips on his breast feathers..which is exactly what my guy with that type of comb also has! And he'll be 7 weeks old on Monday.

 

[Debbi]

youngbiddy

Not unusual, they should fill in black, or molt out in the juvie molt, but most likely they fill in. Give it 2 weeks, and I bet it's all gone.

What are you referring to when you say, "type of comb"? Looks normal or better than normal, to me?

 

[youngbiddy]

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I realized that was going to sound weird right after I posted it. The other cockerels all have darkish combs. Hold on, I'll get a pic..

Every other cockerel has a blackish-red comb, (I know it'll lighten up to a uniform red) but this one guy has bright pinkish red dome-shaped comb. It's so bright it almost looks fake. It just looks markedly different than all the others do right now.
I'm sure the white tips are just residual tuxedo white, I just found it interesting that his took longer to fade than the others and that comb just jumps out at me.