Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[pinkchick]

THANK YOU and yes, I want your honest opinion !  However, I am not so sure he came from you after all..... I will for sure test mate him LOTS. I 4 more cockerels growing out so (3 are Cottage Hill) and I guess time will tell. This guy may be more work than he is worth :/ ...but no white under fluff at this point which is something I have really struggled with so far!

The males that I grew out ended up having a cinnamon edged primary flight feather. One of the males that my best friend still has (I don't know why she still has him) is completely orange.....I mean orange....TOTALLY ORANGE.


Below is a photo of one of the off colored chicks that I hatched on New Years Day 2012 they came from the same source as your males father originally came from.
Notice the leg color is off and notice the red or cinnamon colored head. I think I had 3 like this in the NYD hatch.

These photos are of the 3 as they began to feather out.

and here is a photo of my friends orange rooster when he was a youngin. Will see if she can email me a photo of him now.

Not saying this is what you are going to get...just sharing so you can see what I experienced with the same bloodline.

 

[snowbird]

I haven't. Do you have a link to their advertisement?

Vicki, The person is Talihofarms on BYC and they answered Jenikate ad .

 

[Connie Marie]

The males that I grew out ended up having a cinnamon edged primary flight feather. One of the males that my best friend still has (I don't know why she still has him) is completely orange.....I mean orange....TOTALLY ORANGE.
Below is a photo of one of the off colored chicks that I hatched on New Years Day 2012 they came from the same source as your males father originally came from.
Notice the leg color is off and notice the red or cinnamon colored head. I think I had 3 like this in the NYD hatch.

These photos are of the 3 as they began to feather out.



and here is a photo of my friends orange rooster when he was a youngin. Will see if she can email me a photo of him now.

Not saying this is what you are going to get...just sharing so you can see what I experienced with the same bloodline.

Wow! Holy smokes that's nuts! I have a bunch of questions for you so I am going to PM you

 

[gilavina]

Vicki, The person is Talihofarms on BYC and they answered Jenikate ad .

good deal. I'll go take a look here in a minute.
What do you think of that male I posted last night. He's the one that you liked when he was younger.

 

[gilavina]

mornin Kim!

Just got back from making a feed run. Feed coupons are always awesome, ended up saving about 31 bucks today. Hopefully I'll be working on getting the rest of the birds culled down this week. I'm so relieved the weather has held off as long as it has.

 

[snowbird]

good deal. I'll go take a look here in a minute.
What do you think of that male I posted last night. He's the one that you liked when he was younger.

Vicki, I still think the same as I did when I first saw him, I believe he will finish out being a really nice type BC. In about 20 years there should be a few more BC scathered around with the type your Marans have. I believe it will be a long hard process though as most will not do the culling necessary to accomplish what you have here.

 

[snowbird]

Vicki, If you recall I hatched out 400-500 of the chicks with the brown markings and not the white. I had to cull the entire batch. If anyone wants to see the box of chicks look in my photo album and see 150 of them all in one place. Test mate everything.

 

[gilavina]

Vicki, I still think the same as I did when I first saw him, I believe he will finish out being a really nice type BC. In about 20 years there should be a few more BC scathered around with the type your Marans have. I believe it will be a long hard process though as most will not do the culling necessary to accomplish what you have here.

Good deal. I really am looking forward to seeing how he does when crossed over those beefy dark girls of mine. I think they will give more heft and size to the stock and he should help quite a bit with the color, particularly on the ladies.I'll get the color worked out yet. On Gigantor, where he throws more mahogany offspring when crossed with the dark girls and has a bit of the parsimmonous coloring on the breast, that he would do alright color wise when crossed on some dark girls I have, that have a small amount of copper on the neck? They are still young at the moment, but just curious.

 

[gilavina]

Vicki, If you recall I hatched out 400-500 of the chicks with the brown markings and not the white. I had to cull the entire batch. If anyone wants to see the box of chicks look in my photo album and see 150 of them all in one place. Test mate everything.

I saw that picture when you posted it not long ago on the thread. I think out of my birds last year, I hatched about 300 from the incubator and then had a few broody batches around the place, I had about 5 to 10 of those brown chicks, but I knew whose they were and culled the pullet they were out of. Otherwise I get pretty good color on most of the chicks. We'll see for sure how my culling did this next spring when hatching starts.

 

[pinkchick]

Morning!