Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[ChickenExtreme]

100% blue
guess my mind was thinking faster than my fingers could keep up

blue baby blue... lol

Thanks

 

[hdowden]

ok i posted pics of our marans rooster a while back and most said he was mixed with most likely wheaten. i have hatched several chicks from him and most were black when hatched (the one cockerel i have now has way to much red like his dad) but then one just hatched out about 10 mins ago and looks like this (dont mind the 2 bantams in the back). does this look like it's a wheaten color? i will post another once the chick is dried off more. i do know this does means our black coppers are mixed. so with that does anyone have some nice dark pure marans eggs for sale and if so can you please send pics of what the eggs look like and your stock thank you. (this one hatched out of a nice dark egg). i keep hatching out odd chicks that look nothing like they are supposed to


(french variety with feathers on shanks)

 

[laughingclown]

I have three the same age and this awkward stage is something lol Take your time if you can before making a choice on who gets to go.... maybe someone is plucking that tail?

I dont think shes getting her tail plucked. She seemed a bit different at hatch than the others. Her bum seemed to be a bit different than the others. We will see. I said what the hell, Im collecting some black copper eggs and will do a test hatch with the roo I have. Even if they end up being over melanized so be it. I will shoot for the nice body and type first. Then see if their feathers stay dark. Then I will add the copper on the next breeding.

 

[snowbird]

I dont think shes getting her tail plucked. She seemed a bit different at hatch than the others. Her bum seemed to be a bit different than the others. We will see. I said what the hell, Im collecting some black copper eggs and will do a test hatch with the roo I have. Even if they end up being over melanized so be it. I will shoot for the nice body and type first. Then see if their feathers stay dark. Then I will add the copper on the next breeding.

Clown, Sure sound easy the way you explain, good luck to you. On the pullet with no tail, sometimes they just hatch this way. At some point I would cull, I am sure you could use her in a eating egg pen though. I have had these before. If you check the Coccyx is missing, that is where the tail feathers come from.

 

[Arielle]

Arielle~

I'm going to take a stab in the dark and guess that Don is referencing the white underfluff and white leg color possibly being linked to Wheaten influence.






My personnal experience tells me it is linked.

The several Black Copper males that I raised from chicks that I had shipped in to me from Florida 2 years ago all had white in the underfluff and light legs (all of them also had shafting in the breast).......all had Wheaten in them. I found this out by investigation and subsequent breedings from the females that also came from that shipment and their F1 offspring that Wheaten was there. I actually raised a couple of the F1 offspring long enough to see even more Wheaten characteristics come out in the wing triangle of the males.

Thanks for taking a stab at it--


still catching up!

 

[gilavina]

Hey Everyone! Haven't been on much lately, so much going on I can't seem to keep up very well in any area at the moment. I did go through my cockerels from the 2nd and 3rd hatches of the year and only banded 4 cockerels to watch a while longer. The rest, I will be processing over the next few weeks. It feels really good to see the numbers dwindling!

 

[aubreynoramarie]

Hi you guys! Maybe some of you dont remember me but I had that leggy golden cuckoo cockerall, Gregory Peck. Well I promised some updated photos and here they are. Hes looking less gamey and is filling into those long legs very nicely. I still dont think he is finished growing, doesnt even have spur bumps yet! He is about 5 or 6 months old (i think?)







I think I am going to get rid of him though because he seems to only want to mate with my smallest bantams, and I am afraid because of his size that he might do some serious damage. BTW the two hens on the left are standard sized birds and he TOWERS over them. those legs, those legs...

 

[Bangarang64]

SInce we're showing off our Roosters, here's my Wheaten, Caesar:

at 4 Weeks



at 5 weeks:



at 6 weeks:



at 11 weeks:


at 16 weeks (present time)


please tell me the white tuft of poofy feather at the base of his tail will go away will go away

 

[Arielle]

Aubry--have you weighed him?? Sure wish I lived closer!!

 

[laughingclown]

So should i get a good picture of the pullets bum so everyone can see? If there is something up with it this would suck. If i had to raise birds for food i could but i would rather not. I dont have a ton of space nor do i wish to feed him for another 3 months to butcher 1 bird. Have no clue what to do.