Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Rock Home Isle]

This may be more of a Golden Cuckoo Marans??

 

[Tumbleweed Farm]

I got some Wade-Jeane C-1 chicks from BYC CrazyforEggsJulie last fall. We have 6 new babies from them. I have kept the flock closed.
I also have a Bev Davis Line and a Davis-Wade-Jean line I house all separately. Is there a benefit/disadvantage to keeping the C-1's closed. How long before problems crop up--any advice and knowledge on this would be greatly appreciated! Kathy

Seems like if you are not in the small marans clique you just get ignored. Maybe someday I'll measure up.

 

[Raven1]

Does anybody active in this thread maintain the Golden Cuckoo Marans?

I do as well. But as with any of the Marans I am doing my best to breed to the SOP but still get a few clean legs and dark chicks but overall I love how my birds are coming along.

 

[desertmarcy]

Marcy~

I agree with Don. #37 is your best bird. Are you looking to keep only one of them?

I wanted to keep 2 or 3. Are there others in the group that are worthy of keeping/breeding? Maybe a rank, best to worst, would help me, along with comments on why they are ranked that way?






Elisha~

How's it going today? Did you get your hygro/therm and turner all going?

 

[Wynette]

Seems like if you are not in the small marans clique you just get ignored. Maybe someday I'll measure up.

This is a VERY large and fast-moving thread; your question has already been answered, more than once, but most folks are more than happy to answer again. You might try the "search this thread" just below the red title. Also, if you don't get an answer in a day or so, feel free to ask again politely. Commenting in the way you did above will not make you any friends....just sayin'.

 

[halo]

Seems like if you are not in the small marans clique you just get ignored. Maybe someday I'll measure up

It helps to have a little patience. Not everyone here at any given times knows the answers to your questions. Attitude doesnt help either.

 

[desertmarcy]

Marcy~ Do you have any more photos of #21? Particularly a full on front view and possibly a view of him from above, looking down upon him?

Here are some more photos. He is very wary, so hard to get the shots you want. Do these show what you want to see?

 

[Tumbleweed Farm]

Quote: Your so right--sorry, forgive me y'all I wasn't very nice.

 

[Wynette]

Your so right--sorry, forgive me y'all I wasn't very nice.

No worries!

In answer to your question, there are lots of reasons to keep lines pure. You get more consistency that way, with more predictable outcomes. You do need to learn to linebreed correctly so that you're continuously accentuating the positive attributes of the line as opposed to bringing out the negative ones. Record keeping is essential. Any birds that you are breeding, it helps to know their lineage and what attributes they throw on their offspring when mated to a specific cock bird. The more information you - along with pictures - the better off you will be in whatever your breeding endeavors are.

 

[Tumbleweed Farm]

Quote: Thank you Wynette--a lot to learn. Perhaps there are some good books out there--I'm going to look. Thanks again for responding.
Kathy