Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[math ace]

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I'll go look Debbi... I may of missed it in between all the what is a fault and what is a DQ conversation.

Debbi, I found your BAD BOYS with the Combs from you know where

They were on page 17 and I didn't get involved with this project until Page 21.

Soooo, If I missed anyone else, then JUST SAY SOMETHING. Otherwise get your pics to the thread ...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=517113&p=25

 

[Debbi]

Lisa, I just went back to see if maybe I hadn't lost my mind?? Yup, they are on page 17!

Mind still semi-intact

 

[gilavina]

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No she's not a fainting goat. I don't ever want one of those. She's a pygmy...a true one, with little short legs and solid frame. Don't be fooled by how petite she is....tryin to pick her up is like trying to pick up a keg of beer. haha
you're wanting meat sheep or meat goats?

meat sheep would be ones like Katahdin, Dorper, Leicester, Hampshire, Norfolk, Shropshire and the like. Oh...and I forgot my favorite one...the barbados blackbelly. I think they are pretty.
meat goats would be boer and kiko mainly... there are more, but those are the two most popular

You forgot the best one, Suffolk! I raised Suffolks for years, also Corriedales are a good dual purpose sheep. I've been wanting to get some sheep again myself. Too crippled up these days to do the shearing any more, so was looking at the Katahdins. The problems with the Hamps, Shrops, and some of the Leicesters is there are birthing problems, due to their huge roman type noses. The Barbados, I have found around here, are far too squirrely! We were training a young Border Collie some years ago with a small flock of them, and as soon as the dog gave them the "eye", those fool things jumped the cattle panels and ran off!

Those Babydoll Southdowns are cute, but they don't convert feed to body weight fast enough for me. Best rate of gain breed of sheep, is the Suffolk.

you're right...I did forget the suffolk! Oops! I've heard people say the barbados are a bit wild, but the only ones ive ever been around were docile and friendly...maybe just depends on how they were raised? who knows

 

[gilavina]

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thanks! I do enjoy raising all the different colors of Marans I have here, but the birchens top that list by far. I see you've been edited to "grump" on the birchen comment, but I know what you mean

They are getting there...got some more work to do, but I enjoy the process.

When I read your comment of moving out of SD to find more land, I immediately thought South Dakota being from the midwest. I did a double take and checked your location, cause I was wondering who was filling up all the land in South Dakota that you had to move out of it to find more space haha

the pygmies are excellent pets for kids to learn responsibility with and they are efficient with use of space and their conversion of food.

LOL.....GRUMP? Not sure what I was thinking...maybe plump? Regardless, the BIRCHEN color is grump'

haha when you type certain words, they will change them....grump is the replacement word provided for you haha to replace the certain B word haha

 

[desertmarcy]

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That chick sure isn't a Splash, looks more like a Wheaten? Maybe a Wheaten sport popped up in there somewhere?? Your roo looks just like my boy "Pip the impossible"

! Except your boy has better shank feathers. Is he by any chance from Wade Jeane lines?

The seller said they were from Wade Jeane and Cottage Hill lines

 

[SD_Paulo]

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That chick sure isn't a Splash, looks more like a Wheaten? Maybe a Wheaten sport popped up in there somewhere?? Your roo looks just like my boy "Pip the impossible"

! Except your boy has better shank feathers. Is he by any chance from Wade Jeane lines?

The seller said they were from Wade Jeane and Cottage Hill lines

DM-

I have a two hens that have the darker pigment in the combs and waddles. I am waiting to see what comes of it and if may carryy over. The Roo thats in with them does not have the pigment in the comb.

Anyone else with Darker pigmented combs or waddles out there?

 

[stoopid]

OK, here's a good one. I know there's a thread for it, can't find it, but it will humor you guys.
After Clyde took best in show at the fair this summer, a gal found me on facebook somehow, she HAD to have those Marans.
Doesn't have chickens, yet. So she is actually my first customer for chicks, and I'm not looking forward to being her mentor.
It's bad enough giving someone mutts out of my backyard, but now I am going to take good money for quality Marans.
I contacted her the other day, I am starting to hatch out some nice looking ones, and I am re-reading her notes....
She answers me.
And then reality kicks in.
She wants those dark eggs for baking.

She doesn't need Marans, she is talking about YOLKS

 

[Keara]

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she may still mean marans. My free range marans yokes are darker then my other free range birds. Anyone else see the same thing?

 

[pinkchick]

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Hi!

Do you have some more photos of the Blue Coppers and that chick? The chick is a recessive pop up and looks to me like it may be Salmon or Wheaten. If I hadn't read of the stripe down the back I would have stuck with just Wheaten.

Love the splash gal!

 

[pinkchick]

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Is it possible to get a photo of the chick in the middle with just the pullet in the back?

I haven't been ignoring you - it's just HARD to work with these Marans. They do NOT like doing the photo-shoots!

Anyway - here are Stumpy and Longtoe (the 2 that I think may be BCM pullets)

Longtoe (with a Cuckoo) - obviously practicing stink eye
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/38460_img_1044-1.jpg

Stumpy (with the short outside toe - completely hidden by feathers)
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/38460_img_1037-1.jpg

If I'm still not showing what you want to see, let me know and I'll keep trying!!!

Thanks! I was just trying to see more of the BC chick in the first photo. I still am left up in the air about this chick being a pullet....maybe it is just going to have a bigger comb.

That Cuckoo cockerel sure does have a nice reddish comb already doesn't he?