Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[bamadude]

Please stay Don. I dont want to have to answer any questions. Let's be friendly and have FUN with this. Marans are my favorite breed. I currently have 1 blue copper cockbird and 1 wheaten cockbird. Both are awesome in body type and color (except for a little bit of white on the base of a tail feather on my blue copper). I grew these out to see which of the 2 I wanted to use. I only have space for 1 pen of Marans so I decided to go with wheatens. I now have 10 wheaten chicks that are 2 weeks old (thanks again for great eggs ladycat). I plan use my blue copper cockbird over blue isbars. (Sorry for mentioning a cross).

 

[MeanV2]

Don, I agreed with your point, and that's why I quit replying. I enjoy your posts more than almost anyone else's on the forum. I'm not  educated enough to debate the breed, so usually I just lurk and read, but I always pay special attention to your posts. I think the dry, no-nonsense attitude just makes it all the more interesting

I agree with you 100%! Don stick around and allow those of us who want to learn the opportunity to try. Anybody that wants to talk about Mutt chickens and BS can go to the appropriate thread.

Dan

 

[Spitman]

Don , I don't hardly ever post But I always look for yours in fact I posted on the blue splash forum you started specifically hoping that you would respond to my question about a chick that i think may be a splash , anyway I hope you know you are so appreciated.
your awesome keep posting brother. Tom Ps if you get a minuet could you check out the Blue splash entry I put in a few days ago.

 

[rsauls]

Hi we are new to BCM. This is our 6week old baby. Any guesses to Roo or pullet? TIA

 

[bamadude]

Hi we are new to BCM. This is our 6week old baby. Any guesses to Roo or pullet? TIA

That is a good looking chick you have there. Im not sure about the sex. Welcome.
Surely one of the experts here will chime in soon

 

[snowbird]

this looks to be a female. Keep a close eye on the Comb as it looks to be a Carnation Comb starting. Don

 

[rsauls]

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this looks to be a female. Keep a close eye on the Comb as it looks to be a Carnation Comb starting. Don

Thanks Don and Bamadude! We are hoping its hen!

 

[bamadude]

Thanks Don.

 

[scflock]

this looks to be a female. Keep a close eye on the Comb as it looks to be a Carnation Comb starting. Don

Straight to the point, no fooling around, short and sweet. You may not be the most huggable person on the forum, but you are definitely one of the most respected by the lurkers

 

[One Chick Two]

That is a good looking chick you have there. Im not sure about the sex. Welcome.
Surely one of the experts here will chime in soon

Hi we are new to BCM. This is our 6week old baby. Any guesses to Roo or pullet? TIA

Here are some sprig and carnation comb photos in 1 month old juvies from 3 different lines hatching eggs to help show you what to be looking for to cull early if need be.

This line had carnation comb (back sides) and this chick in addition expressed two back prongs. Sometimes carnation comb will only express on a single side, or, only at back...or, will develop later in adolescents in the form of textured comb wrinkles. The extra prongs are sprigs. You will often see them paired in conjunction with carnation comb, but, not always.



This line expressed no carnation comb, but expressed side sprigs only. The male and female were from different sources, but, didn't express in their own lines until paired. Both lines are from sources that work carefully toward SOP, and do win at shows.



This line developed side sprigs later as these juvies aged. Two tiny prongs from the center. In the back of his comb you can see the odd wrinkles I mentioned which I think may possibly be related to carnation comb.



This was the above cockerel's brother. He had comb wrinkles on this side only, and they seemed more like bumpy texture than carnation comb.



Here he was two months later, and you can see the comb bumps mostly straightened out, and became like skin texture. Although his comb was straight at this point, I didn't trust this texture, so he went into the freerange flock.