Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[pinkchick]

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The APA does not want us to use the pictures. I have some old poultry books with pictures like this saying they belong to the department of Agriculture. I believe some of the APA pictures were copied from somewhere. I planned on giving the SOP reference point to look at the pictures. We should be able to get actual Chickens with these faults if we work at, in the past 6 months I have seen most of them here on the forum.


I understand the APA stance on the SOPs as it is their main source of funding for the Club.

I've got lots of them! And I took pictures too!

 

[pinkchick]

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Jacob, This is the type and color BC male I used in my breeding program. I can not really fault him. I would not breed female with very high tails to him though as then you would get a lot of high tail young. If you can just pick your best 1-2-3- females and single mate so you know where the young are from. The male is very nice type though, too bad there are not more around like him.

Where's this male??? Must go back and look now.

 

[pinkchick]

Vicki~ I hope your little girl is doing good. OMGosh.....a chicken friend of mine stopped by on Sunday after that show in Centrailia with her Bantam Barnevelders (she was stopping by to pick up 4 little LF Barnie cockerels....she has both LF and Bantams) I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE BANTIES!!!!!!! I even held one, don't tell.....went and broke my own biosecurity rules!

She was sooooooooo sweet! I could imagine that I would be twice as inlove with Bantam Marans. I shall never hold one! I shall never hold one! I shall never hold one!

 

[snowbird]

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Jacob, This is the type and color BC male I used in my breeding program. I can not really fault him. I would not breed female with very high tails to him though as then you would get a lot of high tail young. If you can just pick your best 1-2-3- females and single mate so you know where the young are from. The male is very nice type though, too bad there are not more around like him.

Where's this male??? Must go back and look now.

Kim, post 25543

 

[pinkchick]

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Do you have some more shots of him from a full on side profile view of his whole body?

 

[pinkchick]

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Where's this male??? Must go back and look now.

Kim, post 25543

Thank you!

Did you notice the short boxy keel on this bird? Or is it just me? He is a lovely big boy, but something about his chest/breast bothers me. I hope a full on side view will show I am wrong.

 

[CelticOaksFarm]

Morning all! Set up the new Dickey yesterday, it's holding temps beautifully. Our son is very excited about having it. Today I am going to rearrange the brooder house so we have a spot for photo documenting the chicks as they grow.

Can't believe it December already, fall sure did fly by this year. Had to laugh the weatherman had the word cool flashing in blue saying we are about to "chill down" then reported highs would be in the 70's. Funny what cool and cold can be depending on where you live.

 

[snowbird]

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Kim, post 25543

Thank you!

Did you notice the short boxy keel on this bird? Or is it just me? He is a lovely big boy, but something about his chest/breast bothers me. I hope a full on side view will show I am wrong.

Kim, I see things also but believe he is one of the better breeding BC males I have seen on here, I thought we like the Chunky Monkeys right.

 

[pinkchick]

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Thank you!

Did you notice the short boxy keel on this bird? Or is it just me? , but something about his chest/breast bothers me. I hope a full on side view will show I am wrong.

Kim, I see things also but believe he is one of the better breeding BC males I have seen on here, I thought we like the Chunky Monkeys right.

Don~ Re-read my post

He is a lovely big boy

And yes we do love the big chunky monkeys your absolutely correct.

I didn't mean to come off wrong just putting it out there.

How does a person go about correcting the short keels Don? I had one male from Florida with a very short keel and stared at him forever wondering how on earth a person would breed that out. I also had an original Black Copper hen that had this. Can it be breed out? Would you use a bird with a better chest?​

 

[pinkchick]

Don~ Did you happen to see the photo of my Birchen boys comb that I posted the other day? Is this a sprig or variation of?