Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[melodie_a]

Good morning everyone. I am going to be a brand new BCM owner in a few hours! I have 6 eggs due to hatch today and we have our first pip! I can't wait to see these babies.

 

[DMRippy]

Donna~
On that splash boy of yours.......do you have another photo of his comb.......I am wondering if what you are explaining about the comb is like his grandfathers and is uneven serrations. Lil Bill has and Gnarles had points with uneven serrations. I do not worry too much about these as it can be worked on later.
I am seeing nice combs and good points on my young ones now.

In the realm of all things considered MARANS.......IMHO, this is one of those smaller things that I don't sweat.
I am loving his coloring......you got more photos of him?

I will try to get more today.

 

[pinkchick]

Good morning everyone. I am going to be a brand new BCM owner in a few hours! I have 6 eggs due to hatch today and we have our first pip! I can't wait to see these babies.

Hope you have a great hatch!

 

[Zanna]

Hope you have a great hatch!

X2!!

I have 14 of 16 out so far, today is day 22. I switched my breeding Cocks so it has been about 45 days since I have had little babies Time to start thinning out some of the young cockerals from earlier hatches, getting a little tight on roosting space!!!

 

[Chickengirl1304]

Ok. I'm really getting incredulously jealous over here. I can't find anyone local to sell me these guys! I'm mostly looking for a variety of color when it comes to my egg laying hens. I have 3 amerecaunas (one's mixed w/a buff cochin), but they're straight run. So IDK what I've got. I have no adults, just chicks ranging from 1-4 weeks. I'm brand new to chickens and am buying my starter flock. I want a wide variety of colors for my eggs, but it's been kinda hard finding what I'm looking for. I went to a swap that was pretty much dead last Sat and this Sat I'm going to another one which is suposed to be a lot bigger. No, I don't have to have everything all at once, but it's just hard and also disapointing when you're so excited about something but yet can't find what it is that you REALLY want. {{{sad face}}}

Do you have an incubator ?

 

[Chickenman76]

With only one photo, at first glance, I would be inclined to say cull if you have other roosters to choose from. In this photo it appears that his back narrows too much near the tail break and also his tail appears to be too high or aka: squirrel tail. To be fair to the bird and you, it would help to give a better opinions if maybe you could post more photos of him from different angles.

Will do, he is on alert, it's hard to get photos from that boy, lol.

 

[Chickenman76]

A couple of olive egger projects, Crossed with My Splash Maran Roo and An EE Hen

Once I get a few going, I'm going to set a BCM roo on them to make the olive eggs darker, so excited

 

[Chickenman76]

Good morning everyone. I am going to be a brand new BCM owner in a few hours! I have 6 eggs due to hatch today and we have our first pip! I can't wait to see these babies.

 

[Eagle2026]

Please oh, Please tell me that was through glass and you didn't let out the humidity...
I sure hope that they don't get shrink wrap syndrome.
Mike

 

[melodie_a]

Hope you have a great hatch!

Thank you! I have one out so far and another pipped so we are making progress.