Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Red Banks]

Could it be a golden cuckoo marans?

I have bred my golden cuckoo boy with my BCM and one out of the four hatched looked similar to this but slightly redder. The others were all dark speckled.

Thanks that was what I thought too, some bird along those lines.

 

[snowbird]

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Please take a look at the Comb and no feathers on the Shanks.

 

[Red Banks]

Please take a look at the Comb and no feathers on the Shanks

I looked at the Wyandotte as you suggested. They have yellow skin. It will just remain a mystery until it gets older or maybe it will always be an enigma. Chickens!

 

[sbjoseph360]

Hey guys! I am new to this forum. I am looking for blue and copper Maran pullets. I am in south Louisiana. I am willing to make a short day trip. If anyone has 3 or can raise 3 to 10-12 weeks or so, please PM me! Thank you!

 

[forgetful]

Hey guys! I am new to this forum. I am looking for blue and copper Maran pullets. I am in south Louisiana. I am willing to make a short day trip. If anyone has 3 or can raise 3 to 10-12 weeks or so, please PM me! Thank you!

I would look into Dan Barger on Facebook. He is a member of several of the chicken pages and is very close to you. He mainly sells chicks and hatching eggs, but he had pullets for sale about a month ago. I'm located near Baton Rouge and could hatch some chicks for you, but can't provide anything sexed.

 

[Nashonii]

When I ordered 'pure Wheaton marans' hatching eggs, the seller told me there might be lavander (or was it blue) marans also as she was trying to expand her lavander marans. Only 3 hatched. A Wheaton roo and hen and a lavander roo. Now that they are mating I am wondering if I should let the lavander mate with the Wheaton hen. Will it be worth it since it won't be pure any thing. What do u think?

 

[varidgerunner]

Hi, I'm hoping someone on here can help me out. Back around maybe 2004-5, we bought some hatching eggs, maybe e-bay, for some cuckoo marans. The birds we hatched out were huge. Very dopey, didn't like to move much. Laid a nice dark egg, didn't lay the greatest, but dark and big. They were clean legged, with pink legs. The cocks did not get along at all, once they came of age, even brothers wouldn't tolerate each other. But the meat, it was different, very good. Very rich and flavorful, almost too flavorful if you were used to commercial broilers. Bones were pinkish hued. We ended up crossing with welsummers in a quest to get better dark egg production in the winter. (Which did help some, the hybrids seemed to lay very well, not Leghorns , but as well as could be expected for dark egg layers.) We crossed back to a line of feather legged cuckoos, then welsummer again. Later, we got some black coppers and some wheatens, all feather legged, very dark eggs, but the meat was never the same as those original birds.

Does anyone here have any idea what that line of cuckoos would have been?

We kind of got out of the dark egg chickens, chased the olive thing for a while, finally gave up and went leghorn for awhile. Just wondering what that line was, (that I should have kept pure instead of engaging in ADHD chicken breeding.)

 

[XxMingirlxX]

Those Cuckoos sounded more like mixes than American Standard Cuckoos. Only the English variety is clean legged and you're unlikely to find them on EBay!

 

[KF0002]

Pic of my favorite French Cuckoo roo, Ace. Just wanted to share. They are so difficult to get good pictures of. Lol

 

[varidgerunner]

Those Cuckoos sounded more like mixes than American Standard Cuckoos. Only the English variety is clean legged and you're unlikely to find them on EBay!

Keep in mind this was ten years ago, we might have gotten eggs from a breeder. It would have been when they were first being heard of. So English have clean legs?