Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[pinkchick]

oooooooo.....and she will be so close to my dear friend geebsie.......it's like icing on the cake, when I go visit, I'll just have to visit Jan too!

 

[geebs]

Congratulations Pink.... that is a big deal!!! I love George Fox...I take some excellerator classes there from time to time..Good feng shui.

 

[pinkchick]

Thank you CP and Math! It took her 4 times to get it across to me when she called.....all I could do was cry. Very proud moment!

 

[geebs]

OMgosh..lucky me.... I will take you to lunch at that little chinese restaurant in Newberg!!!...

I get my farrier supplies out of that town also... Just a ma and pa shop in the hills... I make a special trip to pay a little more cuz I like to support local commerce...

Good thing she has some financial backing.. spendy little school...Lot of bang for the buck though.. If I had it to do over...nah... I would still have gone to BSU!!!! LOL

 

[pinkchick]

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Thank you! You'll get sick of seeing me.

 

[they'reHISchickens]

How difficult would it be to find a local decent blue copper maran roo this spring when we want to fertilize some eggs? Or to re-phrase this: Am i better off looking for a decent rooster when I want him rather than keeping multiple roos all year?
We are in eastern PA.

 

[cpartist]

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Biological Engineering... I don't even know what that is

. She must be scary smart as well as determined....

GO GIRL!!

 

[geebs]

NOT!!!

We will talk chicken... (talk turkey

)

We are going to totally take advantage of the biological engineering classes... Does she like chickens??? (and I don't mean to eat) We will invent that pink bird that lays bright pink eggs.

 

[cpartist]

they'reHISchickens :

How difficult would it be to find a local decent blue copper maran roo this spring when we want to fertilize some eggs? Or to re-phrase this: Am i better off looking for a decent rooster when I want him rather than keeping multiple roos all year?
We are in eastern PA.

A good roo is hard to find. I think the best you can do is start with eggs or chicks from a breeder
that will show you lots of pics of their birds, and eggs at all phases of their cycles. Out of these,
you might find one good roo; or more likely, you'll get one with potential that with selective breeding
to a hen (preferably not full sister, but aunt or daughter...your breeder can help you with
this by identifying and marking eggs) will give you a chance to hatch enough cockerels to give you a
few nice ones to choose from.

I think there are so few proper to standards out of good egg color lines out there,
that the chance of finding a good one locally as a cull (sell) are slim. Best to hatch eggs
from a trusted breeder with birds with good conformation and egg color, IMO...
Once they are showing potential at 16-20 weeks....the breeders are going to be holding
on to those showing the best qualities.

This is just MHO, but I've gotten some awesome adults out of hatching eggs that I feel
a breeder would never let out of their pens, as adults.

The Marans are not even close to reproducing "clones" yet...while some breeders of other breeds
are very close to this.​

 

[geebs]

cpartist is right about the difficulty in finding the perfect roo, however, I will add this: If you find a rooster and hen that compliment each other then you can make a good rooster... It is all about confirmation first and then color balance...Find a rooster with the proper outline and w/o monumental incorrectable faults and the hen(s) that can correct the inadequacies.