Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[coq au vin]

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My hypothesis is that it has to do with stacking all the different genes which contribute to the dark egg color.

 

[geebs]

As for breeding, use him with hens with slate legs...I believe the slate is dominate over white.
(That is if the proposed color standard of slate is also in the final standard). With his nice copper hackles
he should throw a good number of hens with correct coppering.

Cpartist... Slate is easier achieved not necessarily a dominance thing... It is controlled by the melaniser.. the black if you will, that covers things... It also controls eye color.. This was written in a post several pages back... I believe Bev was the author of that... If I am mistaken, I apologize. It is harder to control the color legs in females and they help balance out the males in future offspring so the proper color for them is the darker leg...

I like that hypothesis.... I am thinking something along the same line... coq au vin The egg color question I posted.​

 

[criker99]

So I just hatched our very first marans ... let's hope it is one of many over the next few months. The hatching eggs could be silver cuckoo, golden cuckoo, or black copper marans. I have never seen any of these chicks in person before, so I'm needing a little help identifying what I've got here ...

 

[geebs]

I am thinking golden cuckoo... NOT BC... they will be black and look like little penguins.

 

[Illia]

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Not Golden Cuckoo either - Golden Cuckoo are brown with a whitish yellow spot on the head.

That chick is either a Barnevelder, Welsummer, or Golden Salmon Marans. . . . Or something else partridge or BBR colored.

 

[Lotsapaints]

Wow that looks like a partridge color I've not had any goldens hatch looking like that I want to see it later when it feathers out more

 

[geebs]

Thanks...The stripes did disturb me... It does look partridge doesn't it... That is why I said thinking.....It isn't quite right...

 

[bumpershoot]

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Not Golden Cuckoo either - Golden Cuckoo are brown with a whitish yellow spot on the head.

That chick is either a Barnevelder, Welsummer, or Golden Salmon Marans. . . . Or something else partridge or BBR colored.

Not a Welsummer... It looks very much like a Barnevelder. Not what you were hoping for, but my Barnevelders are my favorites and they lay HUGE brown eggs (at least mine do).

 

[criker99]

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Not Golden Cuckoo either - Golden Cuckoo are brown with a whitish yellow spot on the head.

That chick is either a Barnevelder, Welsummer, or Golden Salmon Marans. . . . Or something else partridge or BBR colored.

OK So how does one get a golden salmon marans? In other words, what is the parents' colors that make that color? The eggs were purchased from a marans breeder from here on byc, so I feel very strongly that it is a marans of some kind.

 

[geebs]

There is definetly something in there that doesn't belong... if it is supposed to be GC<SC or BC.