Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Hens and Roos]

The time is finally here, starting to hear some faint little peeps every once and a while. If all stays on track, should start hatching out this evening thru the night and into tomorrow.

Yeah, good luck on your hatch

 

[Hens and Roos]

This hatch finished up AM of Day 22, all were pipped Eve of day 20. My previous 4 hatches pipped late day 21, finished up day 23, same parental pairings, same incubators, go figure! All really good hatches though, I think it is the dandelions/garden greens and sprouted oats I have been feeding the breeders Really, I feel very lucky, even when I was a complete beginner, the Marans hatched well for me and the beginners luck has not run out (yet)!

Awesome to hear about your hatch!

 

[Hens and Roos]

Hey Maran lovers... Can I get some help? I just got my babies in, and I split an order with a friend... we both got barrd plymoth rocks, but I got 3 silver cuckoo maran. I can't tell them apart! Please give me any identifying marks so she doesnt take my babies!

I notice some have a white tip to their beeks, while others beaks are darker.

Any advise is truely appreciated!

the cuckoo marans should have a white dot on top of their head

 

[pinkchick]

About 5 of them have this redhead.

 

[pinkchick]

About 5 of them have this redhead.

 

[gilavina]

About 5 of them have this redhead.

Ah, I see what you mean. I've had a few of those before I changed out some of my breeding stock and never had them turn out to anything worth holding onto. Where you have just a few, and a smaller number of birds, I don't see where doing a study on them would hurt.

 

[pinkchick]

the cuckoo marans should have a white dot on top of their head

Barred Rocks also have the white dot on their heads.

 

[pinkchick]

Vicki~
They are from the 2 BCM gals that I had here breeding for my BFF so she could have some new layers. She cares only about egg color. I hatched the Bettyz out on the NYD hatch along in 2012. They were suppose to be from the same stock as my beloved Bill but later I found out that they definitely were not. I didn't keep any of them, gave them all to my BFF. I had this pop up before out of another line of Marans I had when I first started. I culled them all. The lines the Bettyz come from carries BTB and Wheaten and who knows what else.

I will only be keeping the chicks that are correctly marked and studying them, they will be for layers only. The off colored chicks will be going back to my BFF for dark egg layers.






P.S. May I try some Leeks?

 

[Runawaylobster]

About 5 of them have this redhead.

haha.. well that's one way to get the copper hackles back

 

[Mammahen71]

I guess I have to email myself the photos so I can post. Can't add pictures from the iPad. Darn it!