Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[pinkchick]

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It is a good thing you asked because I don't think we talked a whole lot about the broodiness or lack there of with the breed.

NOW if you wanted to know about daughters breeding to fathers and sons breeding to mothers
OR if you wanted to know what the proposed APA standard will be
OR if you wanted to see and evaluate the faults of marans from real life photos
OR if you wanted to know the difference between straw, copper, or mahogony coloring
OR if you wanted to know the range of possible eye color,
Or if you wanted to know how to fix the coloring on a FBCM hen without enough copper hackle coloring
OR if you wanted to know what a Squirrel tail is and looks like
OR if you wanted to see how dark eggs can be
Or if you wanted some tips on how to keep the wildlife out of your coop
Or if you wanted to find some great people who could act as mentors on your trip down the MARANS road

You would want to go visit those 264 pages of information

Wow math ace... did we write all that stuff... I remember some others:

A page about immunizations
White wing feathers
Proper combs
Mossiness
lots of pictures
Something about Salmon marans
Lots of good friends... (we both remembered that)
Prepping for show advice.
What we feed our marans.
Favorite lines.


wow I guess we worked overtime..

.....we can't forget about the 1000 some odd pages of the previous Marans thread.......I still wander through that thread and every time I do I learn something new that I had missed the first time around.

 

[Debbi]

GOOD JOB RUTH!!!!!

...or should I say Ruth's chickens?

 

[Biochick]

Great Job!!!

 

[pinkchick]

Ruth~

That's WONDERFUL! Congratulations to you and your gals!!!! I am very happy for you!

Tracy!

Countrywife!

 

[Biochick]

Ruth do you have pictures??

 

[pinkchick]

*clears throat to whisper to Math*


.......weren't you going to share some photos of some blue birds?????

 

[Debbi]

Yea, what Pink said!

 

[ruth]

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No, I didn't think they would win, I just wanted to enter something to get an idea of where they "stood" in comparison to other BCM eggs. I knew that they were lighter than normal since the girls are winding down on laying and/or painting their eggs.

This is a photo of one of the three darker, pointed end, eggs that took Second Place and Overall but apparently all three weren't exactly the same size/shape/color. I also can't ever take a decent photo - they flash out too much and look off on color or too light:

I didn't take a photo of the lighter set of eggs that actually won but they were pretty oval with no real pointed end/round end that you could distinquish. And they were more of a reddish brown instead of a chocolate brown like the above eggs.

All eggs came from different birds and since almost all are "off" on laying/quality this time of year - I didn't think I was going to get even one set of three to submit but got enough at the last minute for two totally different "looks" and spent $36 dollars overnighting them to someone who took them to the show for me (thanks so much Donna).

I'm still waiting on the Marans Group to post some pictures from the show.

 

[Debbi]

Ruth, Those are some beauties, especially for this late in the season! Give the girls some treats for sure!!

 

[flgardengirl]

Way to GOOO Ruth!!! Awesome eggies. Give your girls a hug for me

Welcome to all the new peeps on the Marans Thread.