Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[R-FuzzyButtFarm]

They need to have a lot more feathering on their legs

 

[Zanna]

Sorry but what are Pullet eggs?

A girl chicken who is under a year old is a pullet so she will lay pullet eggs Over a year old, terminology changes to hen.

 

[flgardengirl]

Does anyone have any photos of what a Blue Buff Tailed Marans rooster should look like? Obviously like the BTB with the bllk replaced with blue but I haven't ever seen a blue BTB rooster.
I crossed one of my solid blue Marans hen to my BTB male and threw in a few eggs in with some other varieties to help fill up the bator. My BTB male isn;t really the most correctly colored guy either.
One of these eggs hatched a male blue Marans x BTB. I don't really think he is correctly colored so wanted to see some pics of others' blue BTB roos. He sure is a purrrrty thing whatever he is lol. I got some pics of him today. Looked for a specific BTB Marans thread so I could post them and didn't see one...

 

[R-FuzzyButtFarm]

Sorry the way you wrote it made it sound like you had eggs that you knew were gonna be girls...

 

[hennesseyt]

I have a Golden Cuckoo Marans Pullet that lays a lighter egg, like a 3. I hatched her from eggs off of ebay. I got a BCM Roo today free from a local breeder who supposably hatched him from a very dark egg. Can I breed them together to get a darker laying Golden Cuckoo? How many generations do you think it would take to get a darker egg? Also can anyone point me in the direction of a breeding plan I might be able to follow. One easy enough for a novice to understand

Thank you.
Here he is:

 

[BLT79]

the white feathers on neck are almost gone now. Nugget, 9 weeks old.

 

[Isa Brownie]

 

[Hens and Roos]

Cute, what breed?

 

[kathyswarthout]

I live in Cuckoo, VA (a suburb of Mineral where there the "East Coast earthquake" originated...a mile from my house) I think it would be great fun to have Cuckoo Marans and love dark brown eggs! My roosters are Americauna and half-AMERICAUNA/half-Silkie, so I would need a separate pen for the Cuckoo birds.

My tan Silkie hen just hatched 8 chicks. They re so tiny they can walk through the holes in 1/2" chicken wire. The rooster, Tibboldt, is brown and grey and beautiful. The peeps are currently black and white or yellow.

 

[mariav87]

What does everyone think of greenfire farm marans quality? Anyone on BYC bought breeds from greenfirefarms?