Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[DMRippy]

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Gilavina, I would ask Walt to comment on the leg color of your splash male. I believe they will be required to have slate legs when they go into the SOP. Now would be a good time to find out.

Walt posted that info on page 1874 posting number 18736.

 

[fowlman01]

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Gilavina, I would ask Walt to comment on the leg color of your splash male. I believe they will be required to have slate legs when they go into the SOP. Now would be a good time to find out.

That is correct. They will have to have slate legs. All breeds of splash chickens should have slate legs.

Walt

 

[flgardengirl]

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None of my current bcm stock have white undercoat coat or any white wing or tail feather issues. I have some pics somewhere.... they do have some white on them as chicks but that is normal. It always molts out when they feather in. I've had some white feather issue in the tails of my male golden cuckoos but not the bcms.
Found some pics!

No I haven't started planting anything for fall yet. I still have some peppers and okra but most everything else is dead. I have a few little blue cherry tomatoes in pots that are still alive as well. I keep meaning to get out there and plant but it had been so horridy hot lately I gave up. My garden is a bed of weeds now LOL. Maybe if it stays cooler I will go work on it again.

splash x splash = 100%splash
I had some splash males but culled all due to comb issues and then culled out the father for the same. Never could get any splash females to hatch though. The mother (a bl copper) died a while back so I am going to try again with one of my older blue copper males who doesn't have those comb problems like the newer one did (from a different source). Maybe next time I will get some girls. If I use cocoa as a mom (although she is pure blue not splash) I am bound to get girls ...maybe...maybe... lol she hatches out a lot of pullets -hopefully I will get some big fat splash girls!

 

[gilavina]

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Hey Lenette! Just got home from takin kitties to the vet, but just ready your PMs...well send back a reply here shortly.

Thanks for the compliment on my birds. I've culled a ton over the last two seasons I've been hatching the Marans and am about ready to head out and do some more culling since its my day off. Both my breeder pens from this spring and the last hatches need some attention with a fine tooth comb. I've got quite a few birds running around, but I really probably will only keep roughly 10% of what I've hatched. Good thing chicken makes good eatin

That blue girl is one of my all time favorites...her coloring and lacing is just right where I want it, so I'm thrilled I've got two more just like her that age and have a few growing out in the youngest pens that are shaping up nicely.

On the subject of splash....um....I have lots

I have three boys in this oldest group...soon will be culled down to two, then if the last two shows that one is way better than the other after some more growing time, I will be down to one. With them I have 5 splash girls...then the next pen down I have a handful of girls and an awesome splash boy that at first glance is straight white, but does have splash marking in not so obvious areas....he is pretty striking to look at. Oh...and I have a splash girl in one of my breeder pens that will be staying here. She is from Birchen stock and is nice and wide even though she is a bit smaller than i'd like. Oh...and two splash boys I thought were blues til just a bit ago when they started showing definite splash markings. I have good hopes for both of them, that perhaps one of them will be a good solid boy with no coppering to use for my solid line. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for sure on them

 

[gilavina]

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Gilavina, I would ask Walt to comment on the leg color of your splash male. I believe they will be required to have slate legs when they go into the SOP. Now would be a good time to find out.

I am pretty sure you are right about that...this boy is my second string one...and is perhaps on the chopping block before too long. I mostly wanted to show that coloring on the comb that we had been talking about yesterday.

 

[gilavina]

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wow...I'm so glad that you didn't try to take that on yourself. Did they say how long it took for them to get them taken care of?

 

[gilavina]

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Oh yeah! I agree with you on needing hairier legs. I have two boys that are a bit younger growing out that have fantastic feathering and are just now starting to show birchen marking in the neck...if all goes well, hopefully one of them, if not both if they prove to finish out well will go in with all my clean legged girls. I'm gonna die I think if I get some nice shank feathering this next spring on my birchens. I'm building the barn on these puppies and I'm not stopping til I get them as good as I possibly can!

 

[gilavina]

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Gilavina, I would ask Walt to comment on the leg color of your splash male. I believe they will be required to have slate legs when they go into the SOP. Now would be a good time to find out.

Walt posted that info on page 1874 posting number 18736.

Thanks Donna! I'll have to go look that up as soon as I've caught up the rest of the way on the posts of the day so far and get a couple PMs sent off. Can you tell I like organization?

 

[snowbird]

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A few days ago, I started the conversation out with Cracker - - - Pink's splash. I was wondering which male might be the most compatible for her.

The dark marans, Mr. Dark . . . .he is very different from what I am used to seeing and really don't know what to think about him.
He does have MAJOR leg feathering going on and Cracker is barely feathered.
He has a FUNKY tail compared to what I am use to seeing. He looks shallow to me compared to my Beefy chested and wide butted Tsunami.
He is not from my stock, so I don't know what to expect. I am just waiting to see if he developes into a tank.... or .... always leaves me wondering where the rest of him is

Here is the cockerel in question...

http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g420/cliff1801/IMG_2494800x600.jpg

http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g420/cliff1801/IMG_2472800x600.jpg

I should point out that he is only 2 weeks younger than this boy ...

http://i1100.photobucket.com/albums/g420/cliff1801/IMG_2450800x600.jpg

When these two boys are standing side by side.... you have to feel there is something missing from Mr. Dark.....
I wished I had weighed them before I sold the one BCM.

Lisa, will tell you what I think about the dark marans male. Lets start with the comb. The comb is much to high at back end making it look much larger than it really is.

The neck looks really long and out of balance.

The chest is non exsistant and not very full.

The narrows of to nothing at the back end.

Overall Marans type and looks, balance and depth of body is very poor.

Tail is high and narrow, caused from the narrow back.

I would venture to say after seeing the hock feathering going on and other things that this male is mixed with something else. Sometimes the mixing can be accidental and caused by a male or female getting out of a pen.

Everyone keep in mind these are my thoughts and everyone is allowed to have their own. Will go over the other two males as to breeding them to your females in a few .

 

[Christie Rhae]

Trying to join the Marans Chicken Club USA but cannot get the "paynow" button to work. Is it my computer?
I don't want to do it the old fashioned way... print out and "mail" *gasp* it in... that will take foreeevverrr! lol