Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[snowbird]

Will try and make a small post on the Back width and length. The first thing to get to breed some of the broad back Marans is a big bushy tailed Male. Pick the broaded back and chest female you have . You can not breed good type Marans out of small little weight and size females. Once you handle the broad back birds you will be able to see it and you will be able to run your finger down the length of the back on both sides and tell if the back is broad all the way to the end. If you check the pinched tail Marans Male and Female you will find the pinched tail fowl to be lacking in width of back connecting to the tail feathers.

Questions welcome.

 

[laughingclown]

Here is another picture of the young Rooster I am using to add color to my girls.

 

[ChickenExtreme]

Greetings from a Marans newbie.

I have a pair of Splash hens from a feather color project (egg color not correct for Marans - between 4 and 5) and a group of French Black Coppers I hatched from a batch of Wade eggs (7-8). I want to keep one of the Black Roos but can't decide which one to keep so I came here for some comments. Hope you don't mind.

Both came from the Wade hatch of nice dark eggs and both had feathered legs to start. Don't know what happened along the way, it looks like they either stopped growing, were picked off, or they just got rubbed off in the heavy brush/brambles these guys like to grub through.

The first boy has a nice heavy feel to him and what looks like a good outline to me. Eyes are the correct color for the breed. I love the way his hackles are smooth and full color but they are all a deep red rather than copper. He also has quite a few red feathers in his breast. He's a mover so it's hard to get a good picture of him.



The second roo is rather sweet, comes running to visit, and has what I call "sunset" hackles. They start red at the top of his head, move to copper and then down to more yellow with black stripes (not barring). His saddle is a lovely copper color. Like the first roo, he has a nice outline, correct eye color but he isn't as heavy feeling when picked up and I'm not really liking the yellow and uneven edges of his hackles. Both were from the same hatch and have similar genetics. I've also included two hen pictures since that's what he'll be bred too. The splash hens are heavy birds, which I like.

Which roo would you choose?



Hens

They are pretty

 

[Johnn]

 

[CountryFriedChicken]

On CL, I simply advertise my culls as "Pet Quality". They sell just fine!
Occasionally, I have someone ask what makes them "Pet Quality". Most of the time, they don't care. They just want something that is going to lay eggs, hopefully dark eggs.

Thanks - good idea.

Also - where is the old marans thread... still reading and learning... thanks again.

 

[CountryFriedChicken]

Will try and make a small post on the Back width and length. The first thing to get to breed some of the broad back Marans is a big bushy tailed Male. Pick the broaded back and chest female you have . You can not breed good type Marans out of small little weight and size females. Once you handle the broad back birds you will be able to see it and you will be able to run your finger down the length of the back on both sides and tell if the back is broad all the way to the end. If you check the pinched tail Marans Male and Female you will find the pinched tail fowl to be lacking in width of back connecting to the tail feathers.

Questions welcome.

We want the marans to have wide shoulders correct? if you look at the body from the top - you can see the depth of the shoulders then narrower going to the back towards to the tail. Then in more of a rectangular way like wynne was talking about - but not brick shape like rhode island reds. But we want them to have slight uphill carriage. Then we see the front - wide chest.

Of course I am talking about the body, not the tail, neck/head and shanks/feet of course.

 

[pinkchick]

The original Marans thread.
Type Marans thread in the search bar near the top of the BYC page and look for the the thread that was created by the BYC user Drom. Or here is the link. https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...posting-pics-of-your-eggs-chicks-and-chickens

 

[pinkchick]

No, no, no, no, no, no!!!!!

http://bozeman.craigslist.org/grd/3265395169.html

 

[heath_elisha]

No, no, no, no, no, no!!!!!

http://bozeman.craigslist.org/grd/3265395169.html

ekkkkkkkk i hope you respond to that ad to correct them!

 

[pinkchick]

I did, with hopes of not offending, but rather informing them. I feel bad because I know what it feels like to be told that what you have is not what you thought it was suppose to be..... heartbreaking, but necessary.