Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Cadeau]

haha.... you say that now, but you haven't seen all my birds or my art stuff yet! haha!

ok - so I'll send a professional company of burly men!
and we can watch them pack!

 

[gilavina]

ok - so I'll send a professional company of burly men!
and we can watch them pack!

haha you're bad! but funny!

 

[Arielle]

Quote:
BBR--too tired to remember. black _____ red. Will look it up. I have cross bred AMeraucanas that are easily confused with BCM. I'm thinking the wings need a little investigating. WIll compare to the wheaten above.

Quote: YEs, Canada. THough my other guy, the one that lost the barn and hay, is in NY. Prefer to spend the money in country, but the guy has good prices and the family is nice to work with.

 

[gilavina]

BBR--too tired to remember. black _____ red. Will look it up. I have cross bred AMeraucanas that are easily confused with BCM. I'm thinking the wings need a little investigating. WIll compare to the wheaten above.


YEs, Canada. THough my other guy, the one that lost the barn and hay, is in NY. Prefer to spend the money in country, but the guy has good prices and the family is nice to work with.

B.B. Red usually stands for Black Breasted Red

 

[Cadeau]

BBR--too tired to remember. black _____ red. Will look it up. I have cross bred AMeraucanas that are easily confused with BCM. I'm thinking the wings need a little investigating. WIll compare to the wheaten above.


YEs, Canada. THough my other guy, the one that lost the barn and hay, is in NY. Prefer to spend the money in country, but the guy has good prices and the family is nice to work with.

The place where I used to winter board used to truck in hay from Canada by the trailer load.
It was lovely hay! Good prices, too!

 

[chickeneyfoot]

whats the average black copper eggs? Is 6 on a average good?

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Yes. That's it!! SO back to basics. THe marans is a black based chicken, but this other one has a black sexlink parent ( RIR x plymouth rock) and a partridge colored EE mother. HOw do they look exactly alike? Are they the same for the color genetics? Or is the genes different but the expression looks the same?

Quote: Good prices, often better than I can get locally. I'm hoping with the decrease in gas prices to see hay come down in price. ANd grain. But if grain belt is low in production this year, we will experience grain increases. Of course so much of our grain is shipped overseas.

Our grain production is subsidized to keep it cheap and we sell it over seas to drive up prices at home.

 

[pinkchick]

I finally have a Splash Copper Marans pullet with copper on her!!!!!!!!!!

Only one hackle feather is copper and a smidge above her eye.......but I'm taking it!

 

[pinkchick]

whats the average black copper eggs? Is 6 on a average good?

Hi!

I would say the average Marans egg color is a strong 5-6 with some that regularly lay 7's. It's my experience and opinion that they do not lay 8's and 9's on a regular basis.

 

[hennesseyt]

I finally have a Splash Copper Marans pullet with copper on her!!!!!!!!!!  Only one hackle feather is copper and a smidge above her eye.......but I'm taking it!

That's wonderful! You have such beautiful chickens