Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[gilavina]

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I found garlic seeds in the pocket of one of my coats yesterday.....good thing I checked the pockets before tossing it in the washer. I wondered what I had done with those seeds, dag'gum it!

haha...I hardly ever put anything in my coat pockets. I made a habit of not doing it when I was in college and would lose things all the time in them. Usually things I really really needed would be hanging out there and so I just don't do it now.

 

[Debbi]

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Yesterday the OP asked about Rosecombs in Marans because they have 2 or 3 chicks with Rosecombs......the seller the OP purchased these chicks from had both Cuckoo's and RIR's. It's my guess someone may have jumped the fence and visited with their neighbors and that is also where you get the reddish cast in the chick down.

You are not talking about the same birds I was here. Not what you highlighted anyway. That one I referred to with the yellow hackles that may have the Wheaten influence, was the pic of the two older roos, #1 and #2, Hector and Crappy??

 

[Hens and Roos]

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interesting information, what is this web site The Coop?

 

[pinkchick]

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well...that is mighty interesting! So, it is possible to still get birds that won't carry it then? If so...how would one know for sure? Just through test mating? I've also seen issues with birds from the coronation sussex that have the coronation comb...and always wondered where it came from.

I think that we may never get rid of the gene completely as there will be no way of knowing who has one copy of the defective gene in their little gene pairs.....but then again I am not a chicken scientist, so I could be way off base and maybe there is a way to single it out and eliminate it.

 

[pinkchick]

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Yesterday the OP asked about Rosecombs in Marans because they have 2 or 3 chicks with Rosecombs......the seller the OP purchased these chicks from had both Cuckoo's and RIR's. It's my guess someone may have jumped the fence and visited with their neighbors and that is also where you get the reddish cast in the chick down.

You are not talking about the same birds I was here. Not what you highlighted anyway. That one I referred to with the yellow hackles that may have the Wheaten influence, was the pic of the two older roos, #1 and #2, Hector and Crappy??

You're right, sorry about that!

My bad! I'll go get more coffee now.

 

[Debbi]

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Hmmm, this is interesting. He must've been the one that responded to my intial post on the MCCU group about the Barnies. I don't know if that would be true or not, where did he get his info? How many birds has he produced from this?? Here, even though the hatches are small, the Carnation seems to be dominant over the single comb, unless all of mine are doubled up on the "defective" genes?? If a carrier is bred to a carrier here, I get all carnations, albeit with small hatches. When the breeding was a carrier to an expression, I got those HUGE tree looking combs, or what I call the "double dose". Either way, it totally sucks that we have to worry about this in the first place! Is he doing the crossings on purpose, or did it just pop up with his flock??

 

[pinkchick]

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interesting information, what is this web site The Coop?

The Classroom @ The Coop....a fantastic place full of All Knowledgeable Chicken Guru's from all over the world.

I commented on an old post of someone elses inquiring about the comb modifiers of the Penedesenca and this gentleman responded with his findings in his own birds.

 

[Debbi]

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well...that is mighty interesting! So, it is possible to still get birds that won't carry it then? If so...how would one know for sure? Just through test mating? I've also seen issues with birds from the coronation sussex that have the coronation comb...and always wondered where it came from.

I think that we may never get rid of the gene completely as there will be no way of knowing who has one copy of the defective gene in their little gene pairs.....but then again I am not a chicken scientist, so I could be way off base and maybe there is a way to single it out and eliminate it.




This is what I have been saying all along!! If you don't have a closed flock, I will gaurantee you WILL have this problem in the very near future!

 

[Hens and Roos]

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interesting information, what is this web site The Coop?

The Classroom @ The Coop....a fantastic place full of All Knowledgeable Chicken Guru's from all over the world.

I commented on an old post of someone elses inquiring about the comb modifiers of the Penedesenca and this gentleman responded with his findings in his own birds.

So if I do a search for this website it should come up?

 

[pinkchick]

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Hmmm, this is interesting. He must've been the one that responded to my intial post on the MCCU group about the Barnies. I don't know if that would be true or not, where did he get his info? How many birds has he produced from this?? Here, even though the hatches are small, the Carnation seems to be dominant over the single comb, unless all of mine are doubled up on the "defective" genes?? If a carrier is bred to a carrier here, I get all carnations, albeit with small hatches. When the breeding was a carrier to an expression, I got those HUGE tree looking combs, or what I call the "double dose". Either way, it totally sucks that we have to worry about this in the first place! Is he doing the crossings on purpose, or did it just pop up with his flock??

I'm not sure, I have a private email into him with some of those questions.

But with 3 out of 4 chicks that would hatch either being a carrier and/or effected with the carnation.......I can see why it pops up more than what you would think it should....but with 3 out of 4, it seems the odds would be in its favor.