Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[pinkchick]

Two Blue Copper gals......Chloe 2 years old on the right (just starting to molt) and a dark young gal with 4 copper hackle feathers on the left , one of the keepers from this year...hopefully soon to start laying.

and a BCM that just couldn't stand the blues getting all the attention.............such a busy body.

 

[Debbi]

Pretty girls Pink! You just have to love those nosy birds. Looks like she's thinking, "hmm, I just know a treat is going to pop out of that thing!"

My boys are the nosy ones around here, especially Pip and Roy.

 

[gilavina]

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Beeeeeaaaautifulll! I do love the size you've got going on your birds! Mine are definitely improving with each generation, but its slow goin... Hey...am I remembering right that you have BLR wyandottes? or am I thinking of somoene else?

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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I LOVE all the pink buildings. You are definitely into the power of PINK! The birds are pretty nice too!!

 

[ChicksterJo]

What beautiful Blue Coppers. I like the look on the left one's face. She looks like she's strutting her stuff and proud of it too.

I have a little problem with my Blue Copper. She has chipped the front part of her top beak. She seems ok despite that. Today I found a little bit of blood on their roost and I had an inkling it would be her. I have had no probs so far with my other chickens pecking at her feet feathers but now my Red Star is starting to do it. I see a little redness on her far left toe and bandaged it. Then her third toe on the right foot has a little bleeding going on and I think her feet feathers are starting to molt? Is that normal with the feathered feet?? She is 25 weeks old. I've separated the Red Star but not the others because my Delaware and Ameraucanas do not bother her feet feathers right now.

 

[flgardengirl]

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Hi thanks. I missed you all! We had to get a new cable line ran out to the street from our house the other one they installed kept having problems so limited internet for the last week = pure torture LOL!! Hopefully it will stay fixed now.

 

[math ace]

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This is it - - -One adult BCM and two cockerels.
Since you are asking for others, I am going to assume that you aren't too excited by the three possibilities.

 

[flgardengirl]

What beautiful blue babies!! I have some blues girls that are just starting to lay and one pure black girl who just laid a really nice dark egg this morning yeah!
I need to catch my pure black cockeral and get a photo. He is sooo cute and has nice feathered legs. I was really worried that I wouldn't have a nice blue roo due to my best blue one getting eaten and now one of the chicks that I thought would be a pullet is a black cockeral instead, so I'm really happy to have him to use on my blue girls this fall. He is probably close to getting to the age that he will start mating. I hope he likes older women because I want to pair him with Cocoa (my favorite blue hen)

 

[gilavina]

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hey Lynette! Glad to see you again! Sounds like you have some nice stuff growing out over there too. Is Sassy still acting like a turkey? I also am wondering if she sense my birchen cockerels growing up in the pen behind the one I posted photos of a while back? hahah

 

[flgardengirl]

Yes Sassy is still acting like a turkey and still bossing the cats around! She cornered one on the front porch steps the other day and gave him a karate kick to the head lol. She is getting real fat.
I was thinking of you the other day and wondering how your birchens were

My black birchen girl is getting really nice silvering on her head and neck and the little blue birchen roo is getting more cream/silvering coming in now too and starting to fill out more but definitely has more growing to do still. Hopefully once I start breeding them, the coloring will get better with each generation.

Hope your weather is cooling off there. I can't wait for some cooler days and evenings here. It has been a horrid summer. I dusted all the chickens, guineas, and turkeys for mites the other day with sevin dust because I found a few on one of the turkeys that run way out into the woods all the time. Trying to dust a guinea sux they can really scratch!