Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[gilavina]

Hey Vicki! I'm not sure if I saw that one or not. Seems I need to go back further. I saw the one with the silver birchen pullet, can't recall the boy? I have quite a bit of catching up to do, do you know what page it's on?? I'm going to post those pics I showed you of my odd duck Kiwi, see what Don and others might have to say. Only took me an hour to load 2 pics!

I hear ya on loading photos. Its a crap shoot here, sometimes it will just sit there and sit there, so I finally give up.
I'll go see if I can find it for you. I think I posted them Wednesday morning.

 

[gilavina]

Hey Debbi, The photos are on page 4147 lady.

 

[Debbi]

Ok Don, or anyone else for that matter. What is going on with this tail?? Deformity? Slow maturing? Will it come up to normal? I have gone back through all of my chick pics, and only saw one that slightly resembled this, and was not near as severe. It seems to have come up a bit, and for the longest time there were no tail feathers at all, just a cushion type hump near the rear. She holds it like this all the time, whether relaxed or excited. Not laying yet at almost 24 weeks, but then it's getting cold, and neither are her two siblings. No mites, no worms, she weighs quite a bit, and is almost the same size as my hens. No trauma or damage ever occured to her, her tail has always been like this. Any ideas??? This is "Kiwi".





Here is a pic of her at around 5 weeks, not much has changed except now she has tail feathers.

 

[DMRippy]

Thanks for ALL the condolences..... only chicken people understand

 

[Debbi]

Thanks, I'll go check them out!

He looks like a real chunker! Looks very promising to me, will keep my fingers crossed for you!

 

[snowbird]

Debbi, sorry to say but the pullet will never have a good tail set. The COCCYX was most likely pointed down at hatch. I had a pullet like this three four year ago. I would not breed her though.

 

[gilavina]

Thanks, I'll go check them out!

He looks like a real chunker! Looks very promising to me, will keep my fingers crossed for you!

Indeed, he is just beastly even for as young as he is. I saw him yesterday when I got out of work and he's gotten even more colored than the other day when I took the photo. After family goes home, I'll be going over all my birds with a fine tooth comb. Oh, and I got a nice colored egg yesterday, I suspect is out of my blue copper. I'll have to see if I can get a photo later.

 

[Debbi]

Quote:
Thanks Don, that is pretty much what I had thought, a deformity. I went to check it out one day, and tried to see if I could raise her tail, and she put up quite a fuss, like it hurt her. Now I wonder if this is something that could be passed on, or is it just one of those flukey things that happens? At least I know who she came out of if it is genetic, and it sure isn't coming from Clyde, as all of his other chicks have been fine. This is the only egg that I hatched from this hen, so I will try to hatch some more come spring, and see if it repeats itself. Figures that I would get rid of one major problem and end up with another, I'm just lucky that way! I doubt she could even be bred at this point as there is no access. I wonder if she could pass an egg? She has no problem with excrement, so??

 

[vebyrd36]

So sorry to hear about ur baby. Fingers crossed for ur eggs out of him. VIVI

Sad news today. We found my Light Blue Copper Roo from Pinkchick DEAD. He was the one throwing me pullets with copper hackles

He was fine yesterday. Hubby even caught him chasing a pullet. Must have been a heart attack. I do have one of his little blue copper roos growing out. He is looking to have about the same coloring. So BUMMED... he was key in my breeding pens next year

I am tossing all the eggs I have and will get for the next couple of days from his pen in the bator in hope of growing out more like him.

RIP

 

[Ullie]

Here are some of my Black and Blue Copper Marans as well as some Ameraucana X black copper marans.
I've only had them just over a month, my first chickens since I was a kid

Sorry my photos aren't as good as some of yours, but it's I can get with my phone.