Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[snowbird]

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Hi, this is a Wheaton Marans cock bird with a really nice formed tail. This is more like a Marans tail should look like. Very nice Large male.

 

[bishopschickens]

Hi Wynetter I will post pics. Very happy with our rooster and several hens but I need some new blood and also want to see if I can make some improvements here and there

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Brandon

 

[crazyegg]

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That looks like a single-combed Brahma, or Brahma mix. Has he got white legs, or yellow?

 

[ruth]

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Beautiful mauve/pink egg. I also get those "pink" eggs from my olive eggers along with "grey" eggs. This pic is sort of washed out but you can see the difference. The pink ones, like yours, are really brown underneath and the grey ones are really green underneath. Both have a coating that can be wetted to see the base color but dries right back to pink or grey. I think they are pretty cool.

Along with my olive eggs and BCM eggs (Polish egg in middle), I just love the variety of colors I gather from that pen each day:

 

[Debbi]

Beautiful eggs, Ruth!! Those are surely a pleasure to gather. Must look like an Easter egg hunt every day at your place!

 

[TurkeyMountainChickens]

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Hi crj, welcome to the Marans thread! Your post seems to have gotten lost in the frenzy of this fast moving thread. I'm not an expert, but I like the look of your rooster. His comb, tail, and leg feathering all seem good. His hackles are a bit lighter than some like, but he might do very well bred to a dark hen.

It's a bit harder to see the hens in the pic. I have a couple of hens like yours with combs that flop over. I beleive the standard says this should not be discriminated against in hens in production. A second opinion anyone?

The eggs are coming along nicely, too! Many people prefer the very smoothly colored eggs. I like the speckled ones, too, though. Birds that lay speckled eggs are GREAT for producing interesting olive eggers, too!

 

[BevDavis]

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Hi

I read in a very old poultry book that the indentations at the side of a comb is a sign that the chick was in stress when it was growing. The sprig at the side of the comb is a fault and is caused by both parents carrying that gene. If only one parent is carrying the gene then you won't see any side sprigs but the gene could still be present in the bird. It will only show itself when mated to a bird carrying the same gene. It is hard to breed out.

Now, I have a question. I have a bird that has a wave in it's comb near the beak. Does anyone know anything about this?

Bev

Bev, the wave or wrinkle at front of comb would come under the Twisted Comb and is a fault but not a DQ though.

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Thanks Don. I'll pull this bird and start reading about this subject.

Bev

 

[BevDavis]

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[havi]

This is the new rooster I got today. Please let me know what you think of him. And just as everyone else has said, I would like the good and the bad. It was really bright out when I was taken the photos. But his hackle feathers are a little bit darker than what the pictures show. I will try to take better photos tomorrow and post them.

The is the current rooster with my flock. There are numerous things wrong with him. So I was trying to get a better one than he is.

 

[pinkchick]

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I work with the Blue Coppers, Splash Coppers and Black Coppers, but mostly Blue Coppers and Splash, I am completely hooked on blue birds.

Until recently I had a Splash Marans hen that layed and egg like that....almost everyday. I had posted that question on another forum and the only person to answer was Bev. She told me that she gets an egg like that on occassion and that it just something that will run its course with the hen, oh and she told me that it does not affect the offspring egg color. Well ..after many attempts trying to hatch her eggs, I think that I was only able to hatch 5 ever. I do have one gal that lays an egg similar to the Splash that I used to have but its not purplish like the Splash egg used to be.