Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[coq au vin]

I guess I had you confused with someone else, Ruth. Sorry.

So who bought Jesse's flock? I don't remember his last name...maybe it's Bryant?

 

[Ivywoods]

Can someone tell me more about this flock from Jessie? Jessie B in GA. I am pretty sure my birds go back to that flock.

 

[kathyinmo]

I just found this little pullet snooping around in the nests today ..... Should get an egg soon, I hope!

 

[Ivywoods]

I'm not an expert, but to me that is a very nice looking pullet.

I just got my first marans egg today. Nice and dark and speckled. Mine are 25 weeks right now.

 

[ruth]

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What a beauty !!!!!

 

[ruth]

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Congrats !!!! Nothing like getting that first egg. And.....WELCOME to BYC !!!!!

 

[cpartist]

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Okay...the Fault Fashion Show:

The Mossy girl:

Roach Back:

Although you can't see them-this one has fused toes, I've kept her as a layer only:

Roo with squirrel tail:

I don't have pics of the ones with side sprigs and short toes, they were males,
and were gone early on.

I have pics of the "keepers" on page 3 and the offspring on page 230 of this thread.
I'll not repost these, but will try to update with new pics soon, as the younguns' have
have just turned 20 weeks, and I think are a good age for evaluating potential.

Again, I started with 3, and am continuing with just 8 (this is not the main breed I'm
focusing on...but do love the challenge!) I think it is possible to raise some decent examples
of the breed without hatching (and feeding) hundreds of chicks...cull early for extreme faults
and defects, then use compensation breeding to improve.

Also, I apologize for spelling and wierd sentence breaks on some of my posts. I had to quit
using Chrome (really miss that spell check) as my browser due to Malware attacks, and
although they look fine in Preview, my AOL browser is chopping them up in strange ways
upon posting.

 

[math ace]

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not mean = = ==

Love

your husbands sense of humor !

 

[cpartist]

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Hi Debbie

Here is the standard that has been written so far but it hasn't been accepted by the APA or gone through the Standards Committee yet. I would have thought that the hackle feathers would be lighter in a bird with the blue gene because the blue gene is a bleaching gene and tends to make gold a lighter color.

Disqualifications
White in ear-lobes. Two or more white feathers in plumage.

Color of Male

Comb, Face, Wattles and Ear-Lobes: Bright red.
Beak: Dark Horn.
Eyes: Reddish bay.
Shanks and Toes: Slate, bottom of feet, pinkish white.
Head: Lustrous deep coppery orange.
Neck: Hackle—Lustrous deep coppery orange with narrow blue stripe through the middle of each feather terminating in a point near its lower extremity.
Front of neck—Blue with narrow lacing of deep orange.
Back: Back—Lustrous deep coppery orange.
Saddle—same as hackle.
Tail: Main Tail—Blue with slight luster
Sickles and Coverts—Lustrous blue.
Wings: Shoulders and Fronts—blue.
Bows—Lustrous deep coppery orange to match back.
Coverts—Lustrous blue.
Primaries—Blue.
Secondaries—Blue, with exposed portion forming wing bay, with slight luster.
Breast: Upper breast, blue with narrow lacing of deep coppery orange.
Lower breast—blue.
Body and Stern: Blue.
Legs: Lower Thighs—Blue
Shanks and Toes—Blue.

Bev, if I'm reading and interpreting this correctly, the standard is calling for blue shoulders
on the Blue Copper as opposed to the mahogany red of the Black Copper?

I don't have a Blue Copper roo, just trying to visualize for future reference.

 

[BevDavis]

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Hi

You will find the information here Click here: genetique angl We have (k+) the late feathering gene in the cuckoo's. I had forgotten all about it until I started developing a black line of Marans and wanted to base the bird on E. I did read that some show people like this gene in a show bird.

Bev