Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[SarniaTricia]

Donna,
I was wondering if the blacks I got from you would be all Black Coppers?
I have a neighbour who is working with spash Marans and she is looking for Blacks (no copper).

Thanks
Patricia

Edited to add:
Does anyone know if you can Breed the Copper out?
Seems like it would be a very long process... but my thought is that once copper is in, it would always be there.

 

[DMRippy]

Donna,
I was wondering if the blacks I got from you would be all Black Coppers?
I have a neighbour who is working with spash Marans and she is looking for Blacks (no copper).

Thanks
Patricia

Edited to add:
Does anyone know if you can Breed the Copper out?
Seems like it would be a very long process... but my thought is that once copper is in, it would always be there.

That is correct. They are ALL Coppers.

 

[Raven1]

True solid Black or Blue is hard to find. If you find any let me know I would love some and so far no luck. I keep getting bleed thru of copper on necks. Poo!

 

[DMRippy]

True solid Black or Blue is hard to find. If you find any let me know I would love some and so far no luck. I keep getting bleed thru of copper on necks. Poo!

I might have some I can share from that little blue cuckoo roo in a few months. He just has one copy so he should throw me SOLID Marans PULLETS. If I cross him with a cuckoo hen, all the roos will be cuckoo and some pullets but 25% should be solid. If we are LUCKY the cuckoo hen I got from you is not carrying gold (I don't see any on her) and we can get some stock to work with maybe.

 

[Raven1]

If I am thinking right she is out of my Splashed Cuckoo and the only Solid Black hen I have so unless she is hiding it deep deep you may have something!

 

[gilavina]

True solid Black or Blue is hard to find. If you find any let me know I would love some and so far no luck. I keep getting bleed thru of copper on necks. Poo!

x2

 

[3riverschick]

Solid Black Marans and where to get them:

http://maransofamericaclub.com/blackmarans.php
http://maransofamericaclub.com/breederslist.php
Best,
Karen

 

[bigshawn]

Solid Black Marans and where to get them:

http://maransofamericaclub.com/blackmarans.php
http://maransofamericaclub.com/breederslist.php
Best,
Karen

None of the liknks to Black Marans breeders work..............

 

[3riverschick]

None of the liknks to Black Marans breeders work..............

Gabbard Farms opens for me. Call them on Black Marans. Here is the other one:
Sustainable Yield Poultry
Carrie Stroble
Arnold, California
[email protected]
Sussex in Light, Red, Silver and Coronation;
Phone: (209) 480-6347
French Standard Marans in French Black Copper, Blue, Black and White;
Large Fowl Wyandottes in Buff, Black, Blue, Blue-Laced Red, Barred and Blue-Barred; Large Fowl Black Australorps;
Large Fowl Ameraucanas;
Dark Brahma Bantams
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Here at Sustainable Yield, we maintain four varieties of French Marans, Solid White, Solid Blue, Solid Black, and the Black Copper.
A limited number of chicks and hatching eggs will be available in 2011. Reservations are also being accepted for started birds.
Sustainable Yield Poultry
P.O. Box 833
Arnold, CA 95223-0833
Phone: (209) 480-6347
[email protected]
[email protected]
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[gilavina]

Hey Everyone

Haven't been around as much lately....life is just crazy and trying to make it thru to when things will slow back down again. Did get a chance to take a few shots of various birds this morning while I was doing chores. I'm happy with the progress, but am still on a quest to be thinning down to nice small size flocks for over winter.

Still my favorite girl, just coming up to 6 months old now and is just a beast. Caught her cleaning herself after taking a dust bath.






Black birchen boy, also just coming up to 6 months. He's a split for gold and has dark eyes, but his body type I can work with and have plenty of girls with nice colored eyes, so looking forward to what he might have to offer.




excuse the exorcist moment the pullet in front of him is having.

(Shaking herself off from a dust bath)



Here's one of the only shots I could catch of a couple of the silver marans growing out. I have them all caught up in sorting pens, so I can hopefully get a nice look at their progress. They are just stunning to watch.



A blue marans pullet in another sorting pen. She's roughly 2 1/2 months old. She has a nice type to her with a pleasing color tone



Another pullet...was in a sorting pen til she hopped out while I had the door open. She's got a nice type to her as well. She's holding her tail plenty high from being on alert.






a bit blurry, but good shot of her




Cant resist putting up a pic of one of my favorite birds on the place, one of my light sussex. She just finally broke of being broody and is growing in the rest of her tail feathers out from molting, but has just a fantastic type and a head like a nice round ball.