Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Braclin]

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Hi Braclin!

Not in my opinion or experience but I have read from other who have posted that some have been a little flighty.

I have the same opinion as Pink!

Thanks guys!

 

[pinkchick]

Germaine~
Thanks, but I will tell you tomorrow is a new day and anything can happen my dear!!!

Braclin~

Your very welcome!

 

[pinkchick]

Kool and Braclin~
I am sorry to hear that this has been your experience with this breed. I wish this was not the case and hope that your birds settle down for you both.

 

[Braclin]

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Thanks, i'm not upset by it. They are kinda funny,lol I'm like come on girls you know who i am. lol

 

[Debbi]

gvntofly05,

oh, those men! Tell him at least to send it in to "World's Funniest Videos" for a chance to win 10 grand! He might not think you're crazy if you won! Nor he so bad if you won either! LOL


Pink, You sound like me. I talk to all the animals here and they all know my voice. Little Pip, the lone chick in the brooder, gets the "Pip, pip, pip" call, to which she responds in the same way. I'll have to take a pic of her/him later today, she's getting big! She'll be 4 weeks tomorrow. Eggs in the bator hatch next Friday...hopefully. Sure hope more than one hatches this time! I think I would rather have none hatch, than only one. It's a lonely life for poor Pip. I'm starting to think she may be a he. Very upright posture, but then one of the pullets from the other hatch did too. Those girls are all starting to look great. Copper is coming in on all, nice & dark, and not too much. Fuglee roo has what looks to be a big hump right at the base of his neck. Don't know what it is, can't feel anything there like a growth or bone out of place, but it sure looks odd. May be some kind of internal deformity? He was the one I had to help out of his shell as he got shrink wrapped after he had zipped 3/4 of the way out, and the stupid LG had a huge drop in humidity. His coloring is starting to come in too. Very copper, and all have the green sheen to them.


Geebs, I now see what you mean about the black "traveling" in the white feathers! They all had the two white primaries, and they were all pure white the whole length of the feather. Looking at all of them today, those same feathers are now shades of gray and black! How strange that is!

 

[berkeleysprings]

i normaly set humidity at 37 til lock down at 61 % what do the rest of you set normaly ? with the suro bator i use i can set like a microwave oven digital thing,im not a big time hatcher so i only do small number at a time , 100 total in the past year and a half 20 at a time all the same breed (wheaten) and my hatch rate is good ,,,welp ,i was just wondering

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Well I am going to be posting pictures one Roo at a time over the next week. Any help as to who is a keeper would be really appreciated.

I am ready for all the faults and good points to be pointed out and any helpful information reguarding them is welcome.

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Are the hackles on this boy odd or is this normal. I have only seen this color on a few of them.

 

[snowbird]

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I don't see anything I don't like except the nice white tail feathers. Some of the others say theirs colored like this will turn black, but not the Black Copper line I have. When I have some with white feathers they go into someones freezer. I will never keep another Marans with white or one with the Mossy feathers,

 

[Germaine_11.20]

So I don't confuse anyone on what bird is what, I made another post here for bird # 3 He is about 5 months old

I know alot of the poses are the same, but it is what I was able to get. This boy has a white tip on his tail feather (last picture)

 

[snowbird]

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I never worry about the white tip unless it doesn't molt out with the first molt. I don't believe the male has molted out yet. Is the blade of the comb ok ?