Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[pinkchick]

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lol.....you know darn well if you came over to visit you would be going home with a blue bird and there would be nothing I could do about it!!!!!

 

[geebs]

WORD!!!

 

[Wynette]

This used to be my avatar:

The mauve colored egg was very true to color in this pic! When I ran it under water, it would turn dark brown:

THen would dry back to the mauve:

The hen that would lay these laid them about every 10 eggs. None ever hatched for me.

I stopped using that avatar because I got SO many inquiries about it I couldn't keep up! HA!

 

[poularde]

I always loved your avatar Wynette.

What a beautiful egg. I have to admit I was always curious about that egg.

 

[Wynette]

Thanks! It's not that I minded giving an explanation, it's just that I'm yacky, and felt compelled to tell the entire story to anyone that asked...which took a bit of time! HA!

I love YOUR avatar, poularde - every time I see it, I just want to squish that cute face & give it a kiss! In a way, your av reminds me of our new puppy, Rudy:

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Yeah, I was one of those asking about that egg!

Awww, what a cutie! And such a sweet face!

 

[geebs]

I got lots of those last year... really round so I kept the bird.. (didn't even try to hatch em) but this year, nice egg color.. It is too much bloom I think...There is already an oxygen exchange issue that make the eggs hard to hatch... This doesn't improve the chances.. I will hatch some this year because the shape is so good and the color is now a standard marans 5.. Not exception for color but the shape makes up for it....oh and the BRIGHTNESS.. Maybe it is the heavy coating that the color is missing like at the paint store.. the base that the pigment is added... this would surely make sense in why the eggs are sooo hard to hatch... and humidity issues.. too much.. not enough etc..

Ps.. Can I hold the puppy???? I won't smile too much.. I promise (insert crossies here!)

 

[Debbi]

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I wonder if you could sand or wash off a small patch on the eggs for better oxygen flow? Or would that also let in more bacteria too? So far, in my only 3 hatches, the only eggs to hatch are the oval, glossy ruby colored ones. The speckled and matte finished ones never hatch for me. Coincedence or is there something to that?

 

[daegorn]

What are those gorgeous black and green eggs? I want one

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Hi

I had a hen that laid the prettiest mauve egg and tried my hardest to hatch them to start a line but never could. Did the off spring from that hen lay the same colored eggs they came from? In the second year that hen laid the same colored eggs as all the other, it was strange!

Bev

Bev,

I did finally get a few to hatch earlier this year after many attempts. One of her offspring lays the same colored eggs but she doesn't lay like that everyday like her mother did. I have yet to get a photo of one of them from my best friend who has her. I only hatched them to see if it would pass on to the babies, one out of 4 or 5 isn't bad, but of course it had to be the one the one chick I gave away. Now if I could get my dear friend to give her back to me for some more tests that would be great but she is like geebs and very protective of her and won't let me near her without supervision because she knows I'll toss her in my truck and take her home.

Silly me I gave her, the original hen, to a man and his developmentally disabled adult son who fell in love with the "white speckled bird" as he called her, she was very friendly and he wanted to hold a chicken so I let him hold her........needless to say it was over right then and the smile on his face while he was sitting there contently petting "Indy" (short for Independence as she hatched on the 4th of July) did me in.....I knew he had to take this bird home, lol, he wouldn't let his dad put her in the carrier......she was going to ride home in his lap, but thankfully dad prevailed. I heard from them about a month ago and she is still laying that purplish egg.

Here is one of her eggs (far left) that I would get almost daily from her. Apologies to those of you that have seen these before, but Bev wasn't on the forum when we had this discussion about the purplish eggs in the other thread.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/11170_imgp5910.jpg
Here's one that she gave me that was as white as could be but you can see the color under one of the scratches.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/11170_imgp6160.jpg
Far left of the photo are some of the last eggs that I got from her and put in the 'bator......wouldn't you know it but the last attempt at hatching some of her eggs I would get a few babies, but only one has continued on with Mamma's egg color.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/11170_imgp6180.jpg

 

[Debbi]

Emu eggs, maybe??