Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Alaska Fowl INC]

My pair....Got so lucky..Ebay eggs, Started out with 16 eggs 10 made it to hatcher,,,Two hatched,,,, I love the tall long legs these to have. Nice birds @ four weeks....Seller said they were Davis line. Any thing iIneed to look for to insure I have good line.? Legs are heavily feathered, LUCKY

 

[gaitngirl]

These are a few of the marans chicks (ages 2 months - 3 1/2 months) that I have. Black Coppers and Blue Coppers. A couple are starting to get really nice coppering around the hackle area. Most of the pullets have little or no copper yet. My oldest cockeral pictured here is getting beautiful color but has very little leg feathering. He came from a local breeder along with 3 others. I have 8 blacks and blues that came from a gentleman who hatched them from really dark eggs. I was buying muscovies from him and he asked if I knew of anyone that would be interested in them . I took the whole lot for an amazing price!!! I don't want them so much for breeding but for the dark eggs (and to eventually have olive eggers).

 

[gaitngirl]

One of my blue copper pullets who managed to break her wing this morning. I have no clue how!!! The chicks are all in a chicken tractor and there were no signs of anything trying to get in. The underside of her wing was bloody but it appeared to be from the others pecking at it. I think its broke from the shoulder itself as she has no movement with it at all. I cut a sleeve from one of my shirts and slipped it over her to immobilize both wings after bluecoting the underside of the injured wing to prevent infection. It's all I could come up with in a pinch . . . I don't know if she will regain mobility or not but I really don't want to cull her. She may not survive the shock but if she does, she can still be a good pet.

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

Hi everyone,I've been calling my hen a Cuckoo Marans,which is what she was sold to me as. Not an expert on the breed but could this girl be a Cuckoo Marans?

 

[gaitngirl]

Hi everyone,I've been calling my hen a Cuckoo Marans,which is what she was sold to me as. Not an expert on the breed but could this girl be a Cuckoo Marans?

She looks like my 3 cuckoo marans . . .

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

I'm just asking because all the Cuckoo Marans I've seen have more distinctive barring.

 

[gaitngirl]

What color egg does she lay? Mine lay a medium dark brown, often with speckling . . .

 

[Chickengirl1304]

[COLOR=800080]Wrong colored legs,[/COLOR]
[COLOR=800080]Legs not feathered,[/COLOR]
[COLOR=800080]Mossiness ,[/COLOR]
[COLOR=800080]feathering striping and lacing[/COLOR]

[COLOR=800080]If it is a marans, it is not good quality.  My guess is a barnyard mix with a marans involved somewhere along the line.[/COLOR]

Black sex links maybe made w
It's a Marans roo?

 

[TheCrazyClucker]

What color egg does she lay? Mine lay a medium dark brown, often with speckling . . .

Medium brown with white and dark brown speckles.

 

[gaitngirl]

Mine have dark brown/red speckling but I've never seen white speckling on them . . .