Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[gilavina]

I could test him with my coppers, I have an EE that looks like she has silver in her hackles would she work better or is she too much of a mutt to know for sure. I have him with my Reg Cuckoo hen and she is not showing copper, should I just stick with her?

you're test mating a cuckoo cockerel?

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Yeah that splash Cuckoo with one copy of the barring gene.

 

[gilavina]

Yeah that splash Cuckoo with one copy of the barring gene.

and you are wanting to make sure he doesn't have gold leakage? You could keep him with the cuckoo and it should express if its there, or you could breed to another blue breed that you know 100% doesn't have leakage and see if any comes out. If you know for certain your cuckoo hen doesn't have leakage then just keep him in with her I'd think.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Thanks!

 

[gilavina]

Thanks!

no problem. Did you see the pic of that birchen boy I just posted? I see from the pic when I click on it and it gets bigger that the color on his back is coming in now and still silver so far! yes!!

 

[pinkchick]

ok, am I the only one that thinks it would be funny to pretend the dark color on the egg is hair and draw a face on the lower part? 

I thought the same thing! But in all seriousness, I think they are kinda cool when they lay them like this.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote:
Funny how you can see things in pictures you don't catch in person! Looking GOOD!

 

[pinkchick]

Alrighty, I just went outside and got a few shots of the birchen boy. He's pretty wild from being raised by a broody, so this is the best shot I could get to show the color coming in. He's a beast for such a young thing.




Here's the ladies that I'll be doing more test mating on that I suspect are indeed from solid blues. Its the two blue girls and the splash on the right. The other is a splash that is roaming free with them while I decide what to do with her. She might join the layer flock




A close up of my favorite of the blue girls. She has a phenomenal head structure I hope to breed forward.




Just for fun, here's a shot of a few of my layer flock and their newest additions, the dark splash cockerel and the light brahma pullet in the background (a mistake shipment in with some chicks - she's only about 4 1/2 months old and she's already huge!) They're all waiting for their turn to run out in the pasture 



And lastly, for Kim, Here's my baby goaties, now 6 months old and still super tiny. They measure in about 6 inches below my knee. Lola on the left, Ina, their mother in the middle and Lobo on the right. Such sweethearts.

LOVE! LOVE! LOVE!

 

[aceschix]

Alrighty, I just went outside and got a few shots of the birchen boy. He's pretty wild from being raised by a broody, so this is the best shot I could get to show the color coming in. He's a beast for such a young thing.




Here's the ladies that I'll be doing more test mating on that I suspect are indeed from solid blues. Its the two blue girls and the splash on the right. The other is a splash that is roaming free with them while I decide what to do with her. She might join the layer flock




A close up of my favorite of the blue girls. She has a phenomenal head structure I hope to breed forward.




Just for fun, here's a shot of a few of my layer flock and their newest additions, the dark splash cockerel and the light brahma pullet in the background (a mistake shipment in with some chicks - she's only about 4 1/2 months old and she's already huge!) They're all waiting for their turn to run out in the pasture

And lastly, for Kim, Here's my baby goaties, now 6 months old and still super tiny. They measure in about 6 inches below my knee. Lola on the left, Ina, their mother in the middle and Lobo on the right. Such sweethearts.

I had a blue boy just like that. the silver seemed to come in over night. Alas he also suddenly grew a side sprig at 6 months

Love that blue girl!!! Please keep us posted on those solid blues (being optimistic

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[pinkchick]

Hi Debbi! Great to see you running around these parts again! You have been missed my friend!

Yep....we are smack dab in the middle of the storms, but really it's not too bad. The worst of the storms have gone over and now its just rain. Lovely gray and gloomy rain.
I can't believe how Wheatie Pie has grown.....and how beautiful she is. Is she laying?
My best friends Wheatens are laying and WOW, the egg color is SUPERB!!!!!! Almost makes me want to get some Wheaties from her just because of their egg color.......I said almost. The only thing about her girls is that they are laying a very long bullet shaped egg, but still very dark. Haven't seen eggs that dark since before I found Bill.