Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

Black faces or the dark faces and combs in the Marans normally grows out and pink or red usually starts to show up around POL or just before, but can take quit a while to go completely away. I don't think that Gypsy or Mulberry is what we are seeing in the Marans. Isn' the Gypsy or Mulberry related to the black skinned birds such as Silkies and Sumatras and such?
 
I will get pics of my GYPSY hens and pullet today. Then we can have this talk over again
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either way, I think I will cull. I don't like it and don't want to breed it forward if it is not a good thing. My hens are still very dark.
 
Ladies you are a chatty bunch! That is what I love about this thread! We all have the Marans in common and life goes on around us and we talk about it!
Debbie for what its worth I love your little Showgirl and I am glad he is with you not me. I have a thing for Polish so I totally understand!
Vickie prayers still going for your Dad and good luck on the dog for him.
Pink sorry about your last few hatch problems and good good luck to you and Vickie with the Birchen you two may be my next source for them next year, I still have not given up on the ones I have but I do see cream.
Cadeau got my fingers crossed for your horse I hope you can at least make her comfortable.
Oh and I am a Zyrtec girl myself!
Donna looking forward to seeing you for the big cookout!
Marans, Marans, Marans,Chat, Chat, Chat
 
Vicki how are those cuckoo chicks looking now?
sorry, just got back from chores and forgot to close my laptop. The chicks are beefy and big. I have tomorrow off so maybe can get some pics. I'm hoping to get them moved outside tomorrow since its not going to be too warm. i was hoping to today, but with the way things are going today I'm not sure how much I'll really get to til tomorrow.

Regardless on the cuckoos I'll be selling them on tuesday as I need to keep thinning down. My main motivation is to keep the numbers down not only to save feeding birds I don't have a vested interest in, but also so I'm able to care for them quicker to be able to take on whatever will be coming with my dad coming home after surgery.
 
Ladies you are a chatty bunch! That is what I love about this thread! We all have the Marans in common and life goes on around us and we talk about it!
Debbie for what its worth I love your little Showgirl and I am glad he is with you not me. I have a thing for Polish so I totally understand!
Vickie prayers still going for your Dad and good luck on the dog for him.
Pink sorry about your last few hatch problems and good good luck to you and Vickie with the Birchen you two may be my next source for them next year, I still have not given up on the ones I have but I do see cream.
Cadeau got my fingers crossed for your horse I hope you can at least make her comfortable.
Oh and I am a Zyrtec girl myself!
Donna looking forward to seeing you for the big cookout!
Marans, Marans, Marans,Chat, Chat, Chat
thanks Raven. I appreciate it! Didn't you order some of the Birchen eggs too? Or am I thinking of someone else?
 
Quote: Still thinking of ordering some egg. What if I ordered the Silvers, would I get further quicker, unless the egg color sucks. The silvers throw reg cuckoos too right? and my guess is there would be little to no gold showing since they are over flowing with silver
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Black faces or the dark faces and combs in the Marans normally grows out and pink or red usually starts to show up around POL or just before, but can take quit a while to go completely away. I don't think that Gypsy or Mulberry is what we are seeing in the Marans. Isn' the Gypsy or Mulberry related to the black skinned birds such as Silkies and Sumatras and such?
I think you might be right lady... All the girls I've had here but one pink up at point of lay. The one that didn't get pink, then red, I sold off because she didn't have any coloring at all on her in the way of birchen markings.

On another note, I was looking at the youngest hatch of mine I moved outside a couple weeks back and they are coloring up well on quite a few of them. Quite a few are cockerels, which i expected since it seems to be a cockerel year, but I'm glad because it will give me better chances of finding some boys to pick from. I'm already happy with the few I've kept back from the first two hatches...
 

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