Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[gilavina]

Morning!

How's the goaties and the geese doing?

 

[pinkchick]

Getting ready to go and round up 3 of the goaties as they are going to their new home today. We are selling the goats as I can not see moving with them. We will get new ones later. The geese are doing great and hopefully in a few days I will be down to only 2 geese, my oldest female and the oldest male, not going to move all the geese either, besides, maybe I can get Pilgrims which are what I wanted to start with.

Have some cute little Marans chicks in the brooder too.

 

[gilavina]

Getting ready to go and round up 3 of the goaties as they are going to their new home today. We are selling the goats as I can not see moving with them. We will get new ones later. The geese are doing great and hopefully in a few days I will be down to only 2 geese, my oldest female and the oldest male, not going to move all the geese either, besides, maybe I can get Pilgrims which are what I wanted to start with.
Have some cute little Marans chicks in the brooder too.

I hear that lady. Are you moving soon? Where to?

 

[heath_elisha]

I had a good laugh last night and thought I would share with my fellow chicken friends- as other people just don't get it lol. My washingtons (aka pinks chicks- 3 of them) have yet to learn how to roost at night. Last night I went out to close up the coops. I stuck my head in to the coop to do a head count. I saw a face staring back at me but she was surrounded by bum fluff. My blue pullet stuck her head under the black pullet and was staring at me through the black girl's legs. It was the funniest sight

 

[desertmarcy]

Don, where's that roll-away combo trap nest design you have promised? Tapping foot impatiently--no smiley icon for that.

 

[heath_elisha]

Posting about the BC female with no copper. I see some lately suggesting to cull the dark females and not breed. I have found in my breeding of BC that the dark females will produce some really well colored Bc if bred to something we know is from of BC that has good coloring. 1 1/2 year ago my last big hatching days for BC I use all dark BC female because they were the only ones with the type I wanted to breed forward. Around 90% of pullets had plenty of Copper..

There is someone on BYC at present in the egg section advertising that they have 8 yards of BC from different people and their flock is supposed to be closed. Just wondering if any one has contact this farm for pictures or info.

Don- I had a question regarding this. Being brand new to marans and chickens in general lol.... most all my pullets/pol lack copper, completely. The one blue copper roo I have at this time is more brassy gold, orange (so far) then copper/red. Would his coloring over dark hens produce more copper/red in the offspring?

 

[snowbird]

Don- I had a question regarding this. Being brand new to marans and chickens in general lol.... most all my pullets/pol lack copper, completely. The one blue copper roo I have at this time is more brassy gold, orange (so far) then copper/red. Would his coloring over dark hens produce more copper/red in the offspring?

Post a picture and lets see what you have.

 

[heath_elisha]

Post a picture and lets see what you have.

I'll get some pictures together on the next sunny day. The roo is going through a molt right now- and is only 18 weeks old so he has lots of changing to do still. He is the one you liked before. The one pol pullet who I think is good enough to breed, has a real wide open and low tail set, beetle green sheen to her, and was a tuxedo/penguin chick. She has a overall good shape about her compared to her hatch mates and has some great feathered legs, no middle toe feathers. I have tried very hard to pay attention to what is taught on BYC and I think of what I have here, she is the best choice so far. I do not intend to show my birds- but would like to aim in a good direction if I choose to breed any marans this spring.
Thanks again for any input...

 

[math ace]

Don, where's that roll-away combo trap nest design you have promised? Tapping foot impatiently--no smiley icon for that.

 

[jendodd79]

Here is our only Black Copper Maran that turned out to be a pullet. She has a beautiful green sheen to her feathers and her head is starting to come in with red feathers. Are these typical colours for a BCM, or is it undesirable?