Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[elorraine52]

roo? hard to say at this age.....just a guess

 

[SIMZ]

Hi everyone! For those of you who raise Birchens.... how is their egg color compared to Black Coppers? Thanks!

 

[OneMountainAcres]

my first Marans egg! Sort of. My girl who laid this is half marans half brahma. I can't wait to see how dark my pure marans hen's egg will be (placed with different colored eggs to show color lol)

 

[chicken pickin]

Congrats! Very pretty eggs.

 

[MrsFitzDarcy]

Hi! I'm new to chickens. I got a Blue Copper Marans from @desertmarcy . Her name is Croquembouche. For my RIR and BPR, I named them after towns in the states of origin: Cranston, RI (Crannie); Beverly, MA. My first BPR I got from a feed store and she's just Pollyanna. Anyhow, I looked up Marans, France on Google Maps and tried to find some inspiring village or city names. Most of them were Saint-something. I wasn't inspired, so I went with Croquembouche, which is a pretentious French desert:



This is Croquembouche the French hen:



She is about 28-30 weeks old and hasn't started laying yet. I can't wait to see her dark-brown eggs!

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

I would say cockerel.

 

[OneMountainAcres]

Hi! I'm new to chickens. I got a Blue Copper Marans from @desertmarcy . Her name is Croquembouche. For my RIR and BPR, I named them after towns in the states of origin: Cranston, RI (Crannie); Beverly, MA. My first BPR I got from a feed store and she's just Pollyanna. Anyhow, I looked up Marans, France on Google Maps and tried to find some inspiring village or city names. Most of them were Saint-something. I wasn't inspired, so I went with Croquembouche, which is a pretentious French desert: This is Croquembouche the French hen: She is about 28-30 weeks old and hasn't started laying yet. I can't wait to see her dark-brown eggs!

she's a very stunning girl I love the name!

 

[3riverschick]

Pretty bird! I watched them make that dessert on MasterChef show this week.
Yum, it looked like it tasted delicious! I had never heard of it before then.
Best,
Karen

 

[mesquiteman]

Hello folks,

Just thought I would share a pic of "Uno", our Blue Copper Marans. My 8 year old daughter (only child) gave her that name since she was the largest of the chicks we got and is the head hancho of the flock, thus uno, Spanish for One! Anyway, she is right at 16 weeks and is absolutely stunning. Got a couple of good pics of here when the sun was just right. What do you think?

 

[mesquiteman]

One other thing...I am not into showing chickens. However, can anyone tell me how close to the breed standard "Uno" appears based on the pics? Just for curiosity more than anything else! Thanks