Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[MrMoore]

Yea her checks are kinda of fuzzy..

 

[flgardengirl]

She kinda looks like an easter egger or some type of mix that has ameraucana in it. She is cute! I love my easter eggers and olive eggers..they are sooo sweet.

 

[Spitman]

They both look like mixed breeds , the hen looks like a Easter egger mix , and the Roo is a mixed breed as well

 

[Spitman]

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I will keep posting there progress , do you think you could post some pictures of yours some time when ya get a chance , I would love to see some pictures to compair them to ?

 

[culler]

I guess that brown spot means they are missing some sort of melanizing gene.

Barb and Vicki, The one thing I learned the hard way was that we want white around the head, chest and even belly on the BC chicks. When I did the mating with the male that threw the chicks with virtually no white I thought I had hit the jackpot, If you remember the chicks had a brown cast to them. Don

 

[DMRippy]

What a wild day here today! Got woken up at 3am with some horrible winds out of the south again. Amazing how quickly I can move even out of a dead sleep. It was 65*, so I expected some storms. Twenty minutes or so, and it was gone, but so were the 65*! Dropped down to 47* in about half and hour. Went back to bed, only to be awakened by one of the dogs needing to go at around 5am.

Came back and went back to bed...woke up again at 9:45. Still makes me feel guilty to sleep that late, but considering the interuptions, oh well! Went out to feed and let out the chooks, and it's sleeting like crazy! 72* yesterday, sleet/snow mix today.

On the good side, my Wynette eggs went into lockdown around 2pm, and I think I'm already seeing a few rockers! Nothing to perk up the spirits like new chicks coming!! Let's hope for a good, non-stormy weekend!! Oh yeh, and lots of chickies!

Mine go into lockdown tomorrow. We will be hatch buddies... I have 86 eggs, some are Blue and Black Coppers and some Blue Cuckoos and a bunch of others too.

 

[gilavina]

Barb and Vicki, The one thing I learned the hard way was that we want white around the head, chest and even belly on the BC chicks. When I did the mating with the male that threw the chicks with virtually no white I thought I had hit the jackpot, If you remember the chicks had a brown cast to them. Don

Sorry...got distracted with chasing birds around to get them to go in for the night....

How much white do you consider an even balance? my very first BCM chicks a couple of years ago were dark and ended up being overmelanized. I didn't end up keeping them because I didn't think they were as wide as they needed to be. Gigantor was a penguin patterned chicker, but never had one with a spot on a chick like this pullet that I posted yesterday before. She was very penquin patterned when she was young, but has that spot still. I'll keep an eye on her as I'm curious to see the development and worse comes to worse, she will make a nice layer bird. She is a giant compared to some of the others

 

[gilavina]

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I still need to get update pics of my birchens I have around here. I don't have many blacks...most of mine are blues or splash. The youngest pen where most of them are I noticed last weekend are starting to go into their juvie molt

Seems early, but I wonder if all the crazy weather has them all thrown off. If you go to my profile page I do have some of my various project pen pics loaded on my page...just scroll down and I think you should be able to see my album. I'm afraid its not organized, but it would at least be a start maybe?

 

[culler]

Vicki, I would rather the BC chicks have considerable white around the head and white throat and chest and run down the belly. I originally thought that was where all the white feathers were coming from but through testing that it had no bearing on the white in wing and tail. Don

 

[Debbi]

Vicki, I would rather the BC chicks have considerable white around the head and white throat and chest and run down the belly. I originally thought that was where all the white feathers were coming from but through testing that it had no bearing on the white in wing and tail. Don

My first batch had a lot of white, especially the one hen that has the carnation comb! She is now mottled in faint white blotches on her back and has white eyebrows! She was abnormally white marked at hatch, and is now very melanistic except for the markings I just described. Seeing as how she shows the carnation, she may not be a good example of white being a good thing as chicks?? oh yes, she also now, after her first adult molt, has one white wing feather on each wing! The whole feather is white, not just the tips. Be careful what you ask for, I would never hope for that much white on my chicks again!