Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[sabella]

Both my blues are "leaky" (love that term!) Here is a good shot of my hen. Sherman also has a nearly black tail feather that is VERY beetled. Don't have a good pic of his darker feathers.

Here is the hen. All those dark speckled areas are beetled. She has a couple of feathers on her other side that are half black and iridescent.

 

[snowbird]

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This simply one of the drawbacks to breeding Blue fowl. Everything will not be show quality, but we can still use them for breeders and select the right male and raise some show quality young from them. Raising the good blue fowl all boil down with selection your male and female to be mated, everything is all averages just like any other color scheme

 

[Debbi]

Well after the conversation the other day about ear coverts/tufts, and I wondered if there were any chicken anatomy diagrams, this thread popped to the forefront this morning! Kudos to the guy that started this thread!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=343605

 

[snowbird]

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Debbi, most of the pictures and sketches are copy righted by APA and are pirated. Most of this is in the APA SOP.The way they keep their head above water is selling the SOP to people.

 

[geebs]

Good morning... thanks Deb for posting that... maybe you will go to jail!!!

LOL Nice to take one for the team!!!! LOL... All of this stuff is available on the internet so no worries...

you just linked it... Just playin...

Ug... Got future Son in Law on plane yesterday (marines).... I feel so empty today... Daughter is a mess...A sobbing pile of heartbreak...

So we went wedding shopping...

What did I miss... I will have to go back and catch up on my homework.

 

[Wynette]

Sweet new title, Geebsie!

 

[geebs]

Thanks.. I was playin around with a few Ideas... Nice of you to notice!!!

I was tempted to put Chix offender!!! LOL Everbuddy yesterday pourin out all the chicky luv!!! LOL

It is so great to be able to stamp your "line" the way you like em... (livin the dream here)

 

[snowbird]

I take it very seriously when someone takes away the possible existance of the APA and the show poultry as a whole. Without the APA, ABA, and the Poultry Press you can rest assured there would be no way to have these big 10,000 birds like the one coming up at Crossroads. All I am saying is people should take that into consideration when they PIRATE all this info. , I am out.

 

[geebs]

Wow.. hot button!!!

Deb didn't pirate... She linked.... so down boy!!!

I seriously doubt that a link from Debbi On BYC will serve as a reason to do away with SOP... you are a little over the top here

IMHO. Besides... it serves as good advertisement.. a sampler if you will... to make others want to buy a book with such amazing information... Geeze..I got on Amazon looking after seeing the post... Anyone else out there jump over to a book site!!!?? Well maybe I am geeky that way...

Thanks for the free advertising on the book...... (maybe they will cut you a check!!!!) Okay so that was a little over the top the other way!!!

 

[snowbird]

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Who said anything about Debbi pirating anything. The people in the know do not take this as joking matter. i am trying to get in contact with the APA AT PRESENT. We will see what they say if it is a joking matter or not.