Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Debbi]

Ha! I knew I forgot to do something! I didn't even take a pic of them. Not thrilled with the color, 4-5+, so no loss with no pics

Got them all tucked into the bator, hopefully I'll have a decent hatch

 

[poularde]

The tail thing seems to work, but not always. With my last chicks I had two that their tails took much longer to develop. They all turned out to be girls.

Beautiful babies Cheryl!

 

[cherylcohen]

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thanks I feel a bit sick about that hatch though, gorgeous 8 & 9 eggs (I have another batch in the bator now) We had a family emergency and I had to leave before they all hatched, it was day 23 and my chicken sitter unplugged the bator, when I got home I opened the unhatched eggs to find 3 that were completely formed

If I have a few roos I'm fine with that as this is the beginnings of my breeding program for the wheatens. I'm also getting eggs from Buddy Henry

 

[pinkchick]

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I'm going by the color starting to come in on the wings of the 2 chicks in the back of the photo and the darker color showing in the wing of the chick who is nearest the front of the pic. The lighter color coming in on the 2 in the back suggests females to me. Wheatens can be feather sexed by wing color. Darker almost smokey blackish color for males and a lighter fawny color for the females.

 

[Raven1]

I don't have Wheatens but that is good info Thanks!

 

[cherylcohen]

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I'm going by the color starting to come in on the wings of the 2 chicks in the back of the photo and the darker color showing in the wing of the chick who is nearest the front of the pic. The lighter color coming in on the 2 in the back suggests females to me. Wheatens can be feather sexed by wing color. Darker almost smokey blackish color for males and a lighter fawny color for the females.

wow, really good to know thanks

 

[cherylcohen]

Here are pictures of the Greenfire blue copper marans roos I have available. Sorry picture quality is crappy, just did it quick.

http://gallery.me.com/cheryl3355/100401

 

[Raven1]

Pretty Pretty I do like the Blues! My big pretty blue "pullet" has become a very pretty blue roo!

 

[Ivywoods]

Two chicks are out now, and one more has pipped. The second chick hatched from one of the eggs I took out of the refrigerator! I know it had been in there at least a week!

 

[berkeleysprings]

edit to say , out of the 40 or 50 i hatched over summer , i could only feather sex them (feather color) combs and size of feet never worked for me personaly one hen i have has huge comb compaiored ....and one hen feet are big !2 front look like roo back left hen back right is up for grabs , thanks for posting
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Any pictures?????

I'll get some this am, sorry