Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[BarnGoddess01]

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Absolutely steady so far!! (99.6 degrees and 40% humidity). Moved 22 eggs over from the Hovabator. Lockdown next Friday.

 

[gilavina]

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Absolutely steady so far!! (99.6 degrees and 40% humidity). Moved 22 eggs over from the Hovabator. Lockdown next Friday.

awesome! I'm glad it was something so simple! can't wait to see what you get!!!

I'm gonna be heading out to sort some of my birds and see which girls will make it to my mom's layer pen. I regularly supply her with girls so she has all different ages so there is always someone laying. Its gonna be hard to thin down since a lot of those girls are beauties, but just not exactly what I'm looking for. I'm gonna try to get photos of the birchen hens of mine that will make the cut for test mating this next spring. Most of them are clean legged or have a small amount of feathering, but I've got some boys that have excellent feathering, so I'm not too overly concerned...will just have to cull carefully, like always

 

[mycutekitties]

Sorry to butt in on your thread but are birchen Marans an APA recoginzed breed? I just got some hatching eggs from Greenfire and I was wondering if I might be able to show them someday? I have a APA Standard book but it's only for Bantams.
I mostly have Bantam Polishes and Bantam Cochins so I don't know much about this breed. Thanks for your imput.

 

[gilavina]

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No the birchens aren't a recognized variety yet. I suspect it will be a while before they are ready to go up for APA recognition. You can still show them...but because they are not recognized the farthest they can go is placing within their own variety and not be eligible for anything further, like best of breed and beyond. Is the standard you have the ABA standard? The newest APA standard that came out still doesn't have the BCMs that got accepted at the beginning of the year as their acceptance was after the book was published.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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Birchen Marans are not yet SOP approved. Only the Black Coppers so far.

Welcome to the Marans thread!!

 

[snowbird]

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They had several late entrys not in the book , but believe somewhere around 5500 or there about, there were over 450 exhibitors.

I did not show as I am without chickens at present, I went just to look and deliver the last Marans to someone. The entrys were really off because of the Crossroads Show.

For me 5,500 is still a huge show! Around me there are mostly shows that are 2000 birds or less. I'm gonna have to make it to one of the bigger shows one of these days. For some reason I thought you had another breed too...maybe I was thinking of someone else.
Do you plan to get another breed at some point?

I had got rid of all the bantams last December to have more room for Marans. Big mistake on my part. Yes, will eventually have a few more breeds of fowl.

 

[mycutekitties]

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Birchen Marans are not yet SOP approved. Only the Black Coppers so far.

Welcome to the Marans thread!!

Thanks!

 

[gilavina]

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For me 5,500 is still a huge show! Around me there are mostly shows that are 2000 birds or less. I'm gonna have to make it to one of the bigger shows one of these days. For some reason I thought you had another breed too...maybe I was thinking of someone else.
Do you plan to get another breed at some point?

I had got rid of all the bantams last December to have more room for Marans. Big mistake on my part. Yes, will eventually have a few more breeds of fowl.

ahh...I see. Hope you find the ones you want!

 

[flgardengirl]

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where'd you get yours from again? I've forgotten already...the eggs are not bad at all...some of the best I've seen!

Trying to catch back up on the thread again lol. I have blues from 3 sources now. BCM from 4 sources, bl coppers from 2 sources but are mixed into a few of my bcm lines now, silver birchens from one source, wheatens from one source, golden cuckoos from 2 and blk tailed buff from one ...etc LOL.

I am having trouble with my email but a few people asked about the blues. The only major fault I have with one of the lines is the feather stubbs on the middle toe. Cocoa has this although hard to tell from the pic. She had egg color and is a really nice size but would be a dq as far as showing. She has a daughter who is almost as pretty as her, lays dark and has no feather stubs. I have some of her offspring that don't have it and some that do. I also have a nice blue Marans roo from the same line as cocoa from a real dark egg. He is really sweet, pretty and huge with NO coppering, but has the same toe feathering which is why I won't use him and using the black copper marans roo this next breeding even if he does have too many points on his comb.
I originally thought a few of my blue males I had before might of had some coppering in them because thier hackles got that dirty look from the sun but when they molted it all came back nice and blue without any brown. The black male has a big comb and so does cocoa so this should be interesting lol.
I have 2 other blue roos from a different source but one is mean as he** and the other is really small so gonna use him for bantams.

 

[flgardengirl]

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ADRORABLE!!!!

x2 I love little yellow chicks!! Look on the wheaten thread there are some good pics of chick feathering. Once they start getting feathers you can easily tell the girls from the boys.