Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[gilavina]

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Oh Yay!! I had forgotten in all the crap I'm tryin to get done around here that you are getting birchen eggs too! So exciting!

 

[gilavina]

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Nope these both are blue pullets and just have the gold neck and nowhere else...my dad never used the gold girls in his program, but he can't really give me a solid reason why so I figured I'd ask those that are better at figuring out genetics off the top of their heads. I can do some of the basic genetics info...but not without straining my brain and double and triple checking my work a million times. I just know common sense stuff mostly.

 

[Raven1]

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Oh Yay!! I had forgotten in all the crap I'm tryin to get done around here that you are getting birchen eggs too! So exciting!

Thanks I am very excited too! Will probably drive everybody nuts

 

[gilavina]

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Oh Yay!! I had forgotten in all the crap I'm tryin to get done around here that you are getting birchen eggs too! So exciting!

Thanks I am very excited too! Will probably drive everybody nuts

haha I doubt that...probably no worse than me. They sure are addicting! I was kind of hoping to get someone to reply on the gold birchen pullet question I had asked before I went to work. I hope that someone still does come by.

I know Village Chicken is pretty good with this sort of thing but haven't seen him for quite a while on here.

 

[Hens and Roos]

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Thanks I am very excited too! Will probably drive everybody nuts

haha I doubt that...probably no worse than me. They sure are addicting! I was kind of hoping to get someone to reply on the gold birchen pullet question I had asked before I went to work. I hope that someone still does come by.

I know Village Chicken is pretty good with this sort of thing but haven't seen him for quite a while on here.

I have been reading a book called 21st Century Poultry Breeding by Grant Brereton - if I understand what I am reading correctly "Gold/Red genes are present in all fowl unless the Dominent "Sex-Linked" Silver genes are present" This information seem to come from a study by a person named Sturtevant(1912) Not sure if this helps you or not.

 

[gilavina]

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haha I doubt that...probably no worse than me. They sure are addicting! I was kind of hoping to get someone to reply on the gold birchen pullet question I had asked before I went to work. I hope that someone still does come by.

I know Village Chicken is pretty good with this sort of thing but haven't seen him for quite a while on here.

I have been reading a book called 21st Century Poultry Breeding by Grant Brereton - if I understand what I am reading correctly "Gold/Red genes are present in all fowl unless the Dominent "Sex-Linked" Silver genes are present" This information seem to come from a study by a person named Sturtevant(1912) Not sure if this helps you or not.

yeah...I have a feeling that if I'm understanding all I know about birchens right that the girls will throw gold offspring since they only have one copy of the birchen gene...I think it would be possible to get some usable boys since they carry two copies...but I certainly don't want to move backwards since i'm getting such nice colored birds this year..if nothing else I suppose they can be just be eyecandy for a friend's freeranging layer flock.

 

[chevgrl]

HI everyone!

 

[gilavina]

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hey anna! hows your day? ya know...I got to thinkin...I may, not sure, but may have a cuckoo cockerel. We'll see....I'm trying to decide on which one I'll keep....for sure the best feather legged one I'll hold onto...I just need to decide on the odds that one of the youngest chicks will be a good cockerel. I suppose I should clarify.... if one of those younger chicks ends up being a cockerel, then I'll have a cockerel same age as those younger pullets I showed you.

 

[Hens and Roos]

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hey anna! hows your day? ya know...I got to thinkin...I may, not sure, but may have a cuckoo cockerel. We'll see....I'm trying to decide on which one I'll keep....for sure the best feather legged one I'll hold onto...I just need to decide on the odds that one of the youngest chicks will be a good cockerel. I suppose I should clarify.... if one of those younger chicks ends up being a cockerel, then I'll have a cockerel same age as those younger pullets I showed you.

so you have a group that are keeping you guessing on who are the boys or girls? How old? I know that with the one group of chicks we are currently raising the boys were distingushable by 5-6 weeks and with the second group one kept us wondering for a good while

 

[gilavina]

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hey anna! hows your day? ya know...I got to thinkin...I may, not sure, but may have a cuckoo cockerel. We'll see....I'm trying to decide on which one I'll keep....for sure the best feather legged one I'll hold onto...I just need to decide on the odds that one of the youngest chicks will be a good cockerel. I suppose I should clarify.... if one of those younger chicks ends up being a cockerel, then I'll have a cockerel same age as those younger pullets I showed you.

so you have a group that are keeping you guessing on who are the boys or girls? How old? I know that with the one group of chicks we are currently raising the boys were distingushable by 5-6 weeks and with the second group one kept us wondering for a good while

I have just three chicks from this last broody...She is notorious for chicks that have the exact same size cuckoo spots on their head....She is a nice bird tho that produces nice offspring...so I'll put up with the guessin. If I had to guess I'd say 1 cockerel and two pullets, but the last batch I guessed 4 cockerels and ended up with 1 cockerel and three biiiiig pullets. I'm usually pretty good at it, but I'm gonna have to practice patience