Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[gilavina]

Oh BTW my 5 BIRCHEN eggs are in lockdown and i found out she has BLUES too....inster fingers crossed smiley.

yay! Im sure hoping for lots of birchens this year. I forgot to mention I have a broody birchen hen and let her keep her eggs, so should be coming up to hatch day pretty soon as best as I can guess

 

[DMRippy]

Oh BTW my 5 BIRCHEN eggs are in lockdown and i found out she has BLUES too....inster fingers crossed smiley.

yay! Im sure hoping for lots of birchens this year. I forgot to mention I have a broody birchen hen and let her keep her eggs, so should be coming up to hatch day pretty soon as best as I can guess

I will get pics....might have to put them in an email or on fb.....not sure how to post pics from my phone.

I am hoping for good things from them next year too. Pics when yours hatch too.

 

[gilavina]

I will get pics....might have to put them in an email or on fb.....not sure how to post pics from my phone.

I am hoping for good things from them next year too. Pics when yours hatch too.

indeed to both. I need to sort my second hatch next week again, and will try to get pics of both the first and second hatch

 

[marans]

Does anyone know how to make a splash marans??

 

[jackdragbean]

Two blues can make a splash. 25% of the hatch actually.

 

[snowbird]

Kim, I posted two pictures in my profile under Chicks and eggs of the Blue male we have been talking about.

 

[HighNDryFarm]

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I would appreciate this too. I'm also new to marans. I have two blue copper marans from wade jeane lines with a new, pretty nice Black Copper Marans rooster and I spent some money from the same BYC member on nicely dark eggs and at the same time, hatched very dark eggs from my partner in a project for the darkest egg we can. I now have 10, 5 week old BCM and 2 OE from my Blue Copper Marans and my Ameraucana and 7 more in the incubator now who are from my Blues and the new BCM roo. I hope I get a Blue Copper marans so I can breed for Splash!

Thanks for taking the time to educate us.

 

[Wynette]

You can find a copy of the approved Standard of Perfection (SOP) here: http://www.maranschickenclubusa.com/

It's a good idea to become very familiar with it. There are also a couple of drawings that show the shape we look for in terms of good quality "type" of the birds:

 

[Lilwanis]

I have a stupid question, but, where can you get a copy of the egg numbering scale? On the SOP it states that they must lay at least a four. And I read numbers on here. Just trying to get the basics down as the chicks grow. I am going to work with birchen marans to the best of my ability. I have five that hatched from really big and dark eggs, which was a surprise to me given what I have read about problems with the birchen marans egg color, and I have seven that came from GFF that are two and three weeks old. I ended up with four boys out of he first batch, one of which is a very pretty blue boy, pretty lacing, and the silver is already starting to come in on saddle and hackles. Too bad I didn't want any blues, lol. So, yeah, where do you get that color chart?

 

[rainbowrabbitry]

I got some eggs from a backyard breeder and was wondering what color they are. Sorry for the bad quality pic.