Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[ChickenExtreme]

I haven't been able to keep up with this thread at all, but so glad I checked in on time to see those pig photos!

I have a lone blue marans, 18 weeks old, but she has flecks of color all over, like splash markings. So, could someone tell me if she is blue, or splash, or blue with some off colors? I have nothing to compare to:





Thanks for any advice!

 

[ChickenExtreme]

THanks, DOn.

I am trying to convince Chicken Extreme that breeding can be simple for a newbie starting out. ANd have fun keekping records and using math and learning the science of breeding.

Appreciate any and all help, thanks

And Thank you Snowbird as well, I'm all ears, lol, should I say eye's

 

[prairieblue]

Hello all! Not sure what I've walked into here on this thread, but I do have a question for anyone more in the know than myself. I'm new to Marans, and wondered about how the coloring in blue splash works. In my order of baby peeps I recieved in June, one was supposed to be a blue splash marans. Well, when does the "splash" part happen? My girl is now 9 weeks old, and first set of feathers are pure white. Is splash a color that happens after a molt or two, or are some blue splash just all white? She's turning out to be quite the friendly little girl, but wondering if she'll be getting any coloring as she grows.

 

[DMRippy]

Hello all! Not sure what I've walked into here on this thread, but I do have a question for anyone more in the know than myself. I'm new to Marans, and wondered about how the coloring in blue splash works. In my order of baby peeps I recieved in June, one was supposed to be a blue splash marans. Well, when does the "splash" part happen? My girl is now 9 weeks old, and first set of feathers are pure white. Is splash a color that happens after a molt or two, or are some blue splash just all white? She's turning out to be quite the friendly little girl, but wondering if she'll be getting any coloring as she grows.

You can see it when they feather in. UNLESS they have a pen of just Splash. Splash dilutes with each breeding. The SPLASH will get lighter and lighter and lighter... till you have a white bird. I see that people have a pen of just splash and they need to introduce some COLOR in there from time to time and may not.

 

[rirbrahma]

I drove 2 hours to our big feed store today and met two ladies who work there and also breed chickens. I always get excited when I meet people who I can talk chickens with in person. One of the ladies told me she is getting black copper marans sent to her. I got excited and asked where she is getting her birds from. Mypetchicken.com was the answer. :/
She said she wants cuckoo marans too. I told her I have a blue cuckoo marans I want to give away and she said it is must be some sort of cross cuz cuckoos are only black.
I just smiled, bought my chicken feed and walked away bummed I hadn't really found someone to talk about chickens with. Sometimes I feel all alone out here..Lol... Thank god for BYC.

Hahahah! I feel ya pain! A lady told me that black coppers are the only breed with feathered legs. Hahaha

 

[rirbrahma]

Hahahah! I feel ya pain! A lady told me that black coppers are the only breed with feathered legs. Hahaha

Edit: just realized it was you Christie.. LOL

 

[Christie Rhae]

Quote: lol!!! I told my husband today after we left the feed store " I only have one person in Hawaii that I can talk about marans to and he is on another island!!" People just don't realize how isolated we are from the mainland and then even from each other on these little islands. Sigh*
There really has got to be more of us... and I don't mean "you know who" lol... Mr. wanna be hatchery...
Ok...done whining about living in Hawaii

edit for spelling..

 

[Christie Rhae]

Hello all! Not sure what I've walked into here on this thread, but I do have a question for anyone more in the know than myself. I'm new to Marans, and wondered about how the coloring in blue splash works. In my order of baby peeps I recieved in June, one was supposed to be a blue splash marans. Well, when does the "splash" part happen? My girl is now 9 weeks old, and first set of feathers are pure white. Is splash a color that happens after a molt or two, or are some blue splash just all white? She's turning out to be quite the friendly little girl, but wondering if she'll be getting any coloring as she grows.

I will give it a try....

Splash is when a bird gets two copies of the diluting gene Bl (blue) One copy makes a black bird blue and two copies makes a black bird white with colored patches. If she is white she is a splash. Sometimes people say blue splash because splash also happens in other colors like wheaten. There can be wheaten, blue wheaten and splash wheaten. The diluting gene mostly affects just the feathers that would be black on wheatens. So to avoid confusion with splash wheaten some people say blue splash...or just splash.
If your girls feathers are white she is splash. She probably has some random blue feathers? I have two splash ameraucanas that are totally white with no random feathers at all. (the outcome of breeding splash to splash for awhile) But they are still splash.




edit: ok I am a dork...didn't realize Donna had just answered this question. ...what she said! lol

 

[buckabucka]

Hello all! Not sure what I've walked into here on this thread, but I do have a question for anyone more in the know than myself. I'm new to Marans, and wondered about how the coloring in blue splash works. In my order of baby peeps I recieved in June, one was supposed to be a blue splash marans. Well, when does the "splash" part happen? My girl is now 9 weeks old, and first set of feathers are pure white. Is splash a color that happens after a molt or two, or are some blue splash just all white? She's turning out to be quite the friendly little girl, but wondering if she'll be getting any coloring as she grows.

I will give it a try....

Splash is when a bird gets two copies of the diluting gene Bl (blue)  One copy makes a black bird blue and two copies makes a black bird white with colored patches.   If she is white she is a splash.  Sometimes people say blue splash because splash also happens in other colors like wheaten. There can be wheaten, blue wheaten and splash wheaten.  The diluting gene mostly affects just the feathers that would be black on wheatens.  So to avoid confusion with splash wheaten some people say blue splash...or just splash.
If your girls feathers are white she is splash.  She probably has some random blue feathers?  I have two splash ameraucanas that are totally white with no random feathers at all.  (the outcome of breeding splash to splash for awhile) But they are still splash.  

Ha! No wonder those people are afraid to talk chicken with you!
Just kidding, really, I was able to follow along, but the whole thing is still confusing sometimes, especially before my coffee.

My friend who has had chickens for years and years, still calls all EEs, Ameraucanas, and Aracaunas "Ameraucanas", and I find myself just calling them "blue egg layers" in my conversation with him. He calls what I have "fancy chickens".

 

[Johnn]

https://www.facebook.com/?ref=tn_tnmn#!/HollysHappyHens this is who i got my eggs off and she has pics of her cuckoo maran stock (so my chick's parents)