Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[pinkchick]

Thanks. Hard to believe that this much time has past but, Bill will be 3 in April. He is a big boy and weighs in around 12.5lbs. He really started packing it away and bulking up after he turned 6 mos. old.....Lil' Bill is doing just the same now and really starting to bulk up.

 

[gilavina]

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Yay!! I really hope you get photos up as soon as you get them back home!! I can't wait to see what you have!

The reason I asked about that second boy you showed is because every once and a while when I hatch out a birchen I'll get one that is not really a gold birchen or a silver birchen...it is like it is confused and is trying to both be a gold birchen and a copper at the same time. I doubt that is the case with him, but it did make me curious to see if he was from the same crossing that gave you the splash birchen boy. But, I'm thinkin he's probably just a misfit eh? haha

I think I will be getting my camera charger today or tomorrow. I have to run up and do chores while my uncle is out of town and have to go see how he wants me to do feedings and such after work. So, once my camera is charged I will be back in business with photos. I want to show some pics of my wee bantam girls. They are certainly sweet and chunky. They need some work and it will probably be a project for a few years, but I am most happy with the ones I held back! Their coppering keeps coming in more and more everyday. Makes me grateful I kept the smallest of all my BCM boys. I think I will try him out with them and only select the smallest and keep working the size down, but I'm within about 5 ounces of where I need to be with the girls. I still have yet to have a cockerel, but I'll be trying this next week!

I am POSITIVE the misfit gene is in my birds.

When are your little ones due to start laying? Love the idea of bantams and can't wait until their egg color is the same as their bigger counter parts.

I'd have to look for more accurate dates of how old these 4 girls are since there were each from a different hatch. I had a black girl that was laying these small eggs intermittenly so whenever she would give me one I would toss in in the bator. I think the oldest one is probably right around 4 months...give or take a week. The others are all a week to two week intervals behind each other. So, I'm guessing probably in a month or two I'll hopefully start seeing eggs. I have no idea what to expect for color, but hopefully they won't be too bad. I'm really looking forward to seeing what happens with my different breeding pens this next year! Its so hard to be patient....especially since the weather has been so nice letely.

I've been wondering where Debbi is too! I sure hope she's alright!

 

[Harris5]

PINK: I REALLY like the dark copper you have on your boys.

I decided to grow this pullet out because she was so dark, but the copper in her hackles in coming in super light. Not sure what that means in pullets...is she more likely to pass along straw colored hackles in the males? This pullet is a sister to the blue pullet I posted recently.

 

[snowbird]

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I see nothing wrong with her color, this is not considered straw color.

I do see a slipped and twisted wing though.

 

[stoopid]

I went out side yesterday with a real camera, not my cell phone, and got about 100 shots.
Most are junk, but now I just found out that my brand spankin new computer doesn't have the memory card slot, and now I have to find the adapter wire to stick in the usb hole. AGH!
And lil Bill is blue copper, right?

 

[Harris5]

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I see nothing wrong with her color, this is not considered straw color.

I do see a slipped and twisted wing though.

That's what the weird feathers are....I swear. You'd think I would learn. OK, Don...should I still get another rooster to work with these pullets, or start over since two of these pullets have slipped wings and now one twisted?

 

[Vickir73]

Can you confirm the below? I know it's kinda hard to tell from the picture (I'll try to get some more, they just don't want to stand still

. (1) I know the black is a Maran hen, (2) is the splash an EE? (3) I think the other is a blue Maran? I hope so. I'd like to breed the 3 of them along with the additional of a few EE hens. I can't show the Maran hen as I've discovered she's got 2-4 white feathers, but since she's the only BCM hen that survived out of my first batch of Marans, I'll be keeping her just for sentimental purposes (and to breed to the EE roo)

 

[BarnGoddess01]

Just wondering if anyone might have 6 -8 nice dark Cuckoo Marans hatching eggs available for sale at Crossroads at the end of the month. Please PM me.

 

[jeremy]

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Hubba hubba!

 

[math ace]

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Either way, Not too shabby for a SPLASH.... Aren't they suppose to lay the lightest eggs ? ?
I am happy with her Pink.