Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[cpartist]

He's not mine Geebs....but I'd take him

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[geebs]

That's what I get for posting so late Cpartist... my back Cook kaka ook is who's bird I was critiquing... Wow.. that is a fingerful!!! I shouldn't post when I am tired... Apologies all around!!

 

[snowbird]

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Very nice BC male. The proposed APA standard says nothing about 10 % allowed in the breast. Just says slightly reddish-brown marked breast. This is the coloring anyone would want to breed to the females with very little copper in the neck. Very nice comb not a problem at all. Nice young male.

 

[Debbi]

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Went back to the site MCCU, and looked it up again. No, it is a different variety and is a "Blue-Salmon" not Blue Copper. Blue Copper has it's own listing. Go to the site http://www.maransusa.org/ and look under "color varieties". Now I'd really like to see this! Bev, do you know anyone who has this type??

This link will take you right to the page: http://www.maransusa.org/varieties.html

 

[pinkchick]

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Blackdotte~
I'm confused now about the comb, you say too many points, but I only count 5 points. I understood that the little points on the rear blade of the comb do not matter and are not counted. Am way off base and totally misunderstood what I have read in the past?
Thanks!

 

[pinkchick]

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Went back to the site MCCU, and looked it up again. No, it is a different variety and is a "Blue-Salmon" not Blue Copper. Blue Copper has it's own listing. Go to the site http://www.maransusa.org/ and look under "color varieties". Now I'd really like to see this! Bev, do you know anyone who has this type??

This link will take you right to the page: http://www.maransusa.org/varieties.html

What I wouldn't give to have these birds Debbi!

My addiction of blue, plus my addiction to Welsummers (which is what the salmon variety of Marans looks like, same pattern), I would be standing with my face pressed up against whomever's window......tapping me fingers, saying "open...open.....open!!!!!"

 

[Debbi]

Pink, me too! The only thing I saw wrong with the comb, is the blade. Isn't the blade supposed to NOT be attached to the neck?? His looks like, from the pics anyway, to be sitting right on the neck, where I had read it should stand off the neck. Am I wrong here??

 

[pinkchick]

Correct, the blade is not suppose to touch the neck or the back of the head, but it should keep in line with the birds natural curves...ie..follow the same lines of the bird but not touch.

eta: Well this is my interpretation of it anyway.

 

[Debbi]

{I would give to have these birds Debbi!

My addiction of blue, plus my addiction to Welsummers (which is what the salmon variety of Marans looks like, same pattern), I would be standing with my face pressed up against whomever's window......tapping me fingers, saying "open...open.....open!!!!!" }

I can see you now! I went and looked at the Golden Salmon, and just tried to envision it with blue. Personally, I don't care for the Golden Salmon as they do look like a Welsummer to me. If I want that color, I guess I'd just buy some Wellies. Think I'll stick with the Black Coppers and Blues...

 

[ruth]

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Oh my gosh - how awful. Poor little chickies. I guess she was really hungry from being broody so long.

Which, all joking aside, is a serious issue with some of my broodies. They sit for so long, I can't break them up, and then they get so run down because they won't get off the nest to eat or drink. I've lost a couple of broodys this way. I just find them dead on the nest and when you pick them up they are skin and bones. So now I go in each pen every day and pick them up and toss them off the nest when I scattering food around and it snaps them out of it long enough to eat. If I didn't, they would just sit there and starve, so afraid to get up because the others might take their spot.