Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[ruth]

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Hi Kathy - yes, thanks so much that does help. I did a search but with so many posts, I couldn't find the information. So, I won't get splash from breeding the blues and blacks - only if I breed the two blues together? Cause I was thinking about doing a single mating of them since they are my only pair and maybe just start their own little family. Trying to decide what to do with them. They are lovely but neither have feathered shanks. I posted a pic of the blue boy a few pages back.

I'm still researching pictures of Wheaten roos and I'm pretty sure that's what he is. I'll post a pic tomorrow but it could explain where a lot of the the little wheaten "surprises" have been coming from in the Jeane line. I've just never looked at them that closely before an he does have the cinnamon wing.

Thanks again - and hey, you must be a night owl too. I'm just trying to cool off and catch my breath after cleaning up after a long day working in the garden and then deciding since I was already so filthy, sweaty and dirty I'd go out and move a hundred birds around. My DH was like "who/what are we moving where?" and I'm like "well, first we're going to move everyone in this pen into that pen, then we're going to move these in this pen into that pen, then.............." when we got down to "o.k., now see that hen with the copper hackles and orange eyes, catch her, she's going in this pen...."

Guess you had to be there. He came in showered, went straight to bed without a word. I'm betting it's cause he had so much fun.

 

[kathyinmo]

Correct, with a blue and black mating you will not get splash.

Yes, breed blue to blue and you can get all three colors (blue, black, and splash).

I know exactly what you are saying .... I did the same thing today. Cleaning out pens and rearranging. Ohhh, what a job! Shower felt so good tonight, I decided a bubble bath was in order afterwards! LOL

 

[ruth]

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If someone had told me a few years ago that this is what I would be doing someday I would have laughed till I wet myself.

 

[kathyinmo]

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Me too ! ! My family STILL can not believe it!

About your blue pair with no feathers on their shanks ..... Honestly, personally, I prefer them. I had some beauties, and regret selling them. Alot of people in the wetter states like them too, as they prefer no feathers on legs and feet because they get so muddy, etc.

On the other hand, if you want to add feathers, it is easy to breed in with crossing.

 

[ruth]

Here's a picture of my possible Wheaten. If anyone has a guess if he's a full Wheaten or cross - notice the brown in the wing triangle, the lighter hackles, and the lighter feet. He just doesn't look like the other roos in Jesse's original flock. He's molting pretty badly right now. I took this pic last month when it was triple digits here. Most of my birds have little to no feathers right now.

In any event, he's now been removed from any breeder pens and tomorrow morning will awake to find he has joined the ranks of the freeranging gangs. It will be interesting to see how he does since he's been in a pen most of his life.

 

[pinkchick]

Ruth~

You're teasing.....talking about your Blue Coppers and not posting photos of them!!!!!! Here I was already to scroll down the page and see these blue beauties staring back at me..........buuuuuuuttttt NOOOOO!

eta: I think he is a Wheaten.

 

[berkeleysprings]

this is only my thoughts but i see come color leaking threw just below the cinnamon –brown wing triangle in the thigh. On a wheaten cock the underside ,thighs and abdomen should be blackish with grey under color and the tail black and can have some reddish shades on the sides and green sheen on the larger sickles my thoughts are cross here is a pic to compare to but my pic is no ways a perfect wheaten by a long shot

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[chickenpickens]

We have three pipping two days early at our house!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are all so excited!!!!!!!!!!

 

[berkeleysprings]

excited ? for what ?
your not gunna sleep for the next 2 days lol
have a great time and a great hatch and take turns sleeping in shifts , and watching eggs hatch

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[Debbi]

I've got a few sleepless nights coming up myself next week!


CONGRATS on the babies chickenpickens!!!