Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[geebs]

Mathace: Your kidding right??

We are racking our brains to "see blue" and you were giving us A GROUP OF BLACKS...

Is it April first??? (have to check the calendar)..... Good one!!!

 

[BevDavis]

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They can be split for yellow and white skin. If it was born yellow and turned white, it most likely is. If you breed that bird to a yellow skinned bird, you'll get more with yellow skin. Cull your white skin as you go, if yellow is the goal. (sorry, I don't know what Marans should be, but wanted to respond to the skin color to help as I've seen this with araucana too)

Hi

It's the male that could be a split, carrying one gene for yellow and one for white legs. It might not always be obvious by the color he is showing so you would have to test mate him to find out. The females only carry one set of genes so what you see is what you have got. Yellow legs is caused by a recessive gene so you would need two birds carrying that gene to show itself.

Yellow legs in Marans is a DQ.

Bev

 

[pinkchick]

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Hi there Pink

They are coming along nicely, getting the correct coloring for the male is a challenge. The size, conformation is good and so is the egg color. The over all stippling of the feather was difficult but do have some nice pullets coming along. I bred a lot of them this last year and am now waiting for them to come into lay so that I can see what chicks they produce using the male I kept.

I did breed a blue copper male this year and he has some red in his breast, this is a first for me so excited to see what females he produces. I didn't keep too many copper blue hens but have some young pullets. The copper in the hackles is much better this year, it's taken a long time to get what I have now but well worth all the breeding over the years.

Bev

I am happy to hear that all is going good with them Bev. Now you just remember that if you end up with too many extra blue coppers and extra Silver Blue Salmons you just send them on over my way. I'm hanging a HUGE stocking this year and I know they would fill it up nicely.

 

[BevDavis]

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Hi

Hi

There was a person who did an egg shell analysis and the shell of a Marans is thicker but don't think you need to do anything different to hatch them than any other egg.

Bev

 

[geebs]

Bev Will you be posting pictures of the project or waiting till the end to post result??? I have never seen silver salmon before...

 

[pinkchick]

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Don't ever look you will want them.....BAD!!!!!

Imagine a Welsummer with a silver neck, blue feathers with the partridge/duckwing pattern YUMMMMY! I want, I want, I WANT!!!!!!

 

[BevDavis]

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Hi

The black and blue coppers are carrying a melanotic gene that covers the color in the females hackles. The problem has always been to try to breed for hackle color, this is the first year I have done it and used an uncle to get the result.

Bev

 

[Debbi]

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Don't ever look you will want them.....BAD!!!!!

Imagine a Welsummer with a silver neck, blue feathers with the partridge/duckwing pattern YUMMMMY! I want, I want, I WANT!!!!!!

Oh Gees! Don't post pics then, I'm already starting to lose the battle with Blues and Wheatens!

 

[geebs]

Welsummers never tempted me....Those blues sure do... I have never been a lavender or porcelain person... I like big contrast... like those good Brahmas... I like the contrast between copper and black...or better yet the red and black.. I think that is why I like to work "out of balance" if you will..... so that I can have the different melanistic presentations to look at... Red necked hens for the yellow hackled males etc... If you get my drift... she had talked of the pattern that brahma have... help me out here.. I am at a loss for words...(doesn't happen that often)

 

[Debbi]

Pink,

Thanks for the humidity tip, I may just go ahead and try that! Can't get much worse than the hatch rates I'm getting now!