Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[blackbirds13]

Quote: Are these those Marans I've seen on Rarebreed Auctions. I think they call them Veaches Brown Hayden Marans.

http://www.rarebreedauctions.com/au...n-hayden-marans-baby-chicks&auction_id=113499

this is taken from the auction and is how the seller describes them


In this auction we are offering 15+ baby chicks from our flock of Brown Hayden Marans. We have the only flock of this variety of Marans that we know of anywhere. We have heard of those that have one or two birds like ours that came from the same bloodline. The gene for this color variety came from our Black Copper Marans. The first two generations of Blacks and Black Coppers that we bred were all Black or Black Copper. When we bred some relatives we started hatching these Brown chicks. At first I was upset at the impurety of my line. I decided to keep some of these birds and see what they turned out to be. They turned out to be absolutely stunning.




Although there is some variation in light and dark and some difference in feather patterns, they breed 100% true when bred Brown to Brown. This Brown gene is recessive to the Black and Black Copper gene, but when crossed with the Splash, the chicks are Blue. The Brown hens are a mixture of different shades of brown, gold, red, gray, and black and all have some barring in the feathers, some more than others. The lighter roosters have a red body similar to the Rhode Island Red color, with gold hackles, and deep red upper wing and saddle feathers, with a black tail. The wing feathers are stripped with red and black. The darker roosters are feathered similar to the lights except the body and breast are what I call a dapple of red and black. Some have tried to catagorize our roosters as Black Tailed Buffs and the hens as Golden Salmon. The Golden Salmon and Wheaton roosters look about the same as Black Coppers. What really sets our variety aside from other varieties of Brown Marans is the color of the roosters. All the baby chicks feather out with brown and black barred feathers, with the roosters loosing the barring as the secondary feathers grow, while the hens retain some of the barring.


They are quite pretty.

 

[BLT79]

OK, I didn't get a picture of her legs, but her legs are white with a little black. Just wondering what kind of Maran she is. Thought she was splash maran, maybe mixed, but her white isn't so pure white anymore!


these are my other two marans. not sure if they are French, black copper, or mixed either! any help would be great! we love these gals either way!

 

[taterdee]

Wow. It is really hard to find any info on sexing Marans. Anyone have some good links or tips? Mine are too young to tell yet but I'd like to have my eyes open for markers. I have splash and blue. Looks like a couple of the splash are getting some dark feathers and others are still all white. That mean anything?

 

[pinkchick]

Wow. It is really hard to find any info on sexing Marans. Anyone have some good links or tips? Mine are too young to tell yet but I'd like to have my eyes open for markers. I have splash and blue. Looks like a couple of the splash are getting some dark feathers and others are still all white. That mean anything?

Sexing young (2-5 days of age) Marans can be done quite accurately, if the breeder breeds for feather sexing traits. This is not the same as feather color sexing or autosexing breeds of birds like the Barred Rock and the Welsummer...I am talking actual feather lengths and the rate of growth of certain feathers. Feather sexing traits do not just happen overnight, it is something that takes a few generations to get it to work right. Faster and slow feathering markers are key and knowing which parent bird has which and how to breed them.
This fast/slow feathering is not meant for sexing birds that are older than a few days. After a few days their feathers start coming in rapidly and the traits bred for are harder to discern.

I have been breeding my Marans this way since I started and I am very happy with how accurately I can sex them at such a young a age.

Oh and the darker feathers coming in on your splash birds does not indicate anything about gender. These darker feathers on the splash are normal.

 

[pinkchick]

Hello Marans Friends!

Hope everyone is doing GREAT!!!!!!!

Miss chattin' it up around here and yackity yacking about our Marans.

My young girls from this years single test matings are still being lazy and have not given up any eggs. They are just coming near 5.5 months so it should not be long now.

Both males from those single matings are looking good, but I don't like the tail set of one of them and the other has better copper coloring, but has dark eyes. Thinking I am going to keep the dark eyed one to test mate over my pullets from Texas with correct eyes and see what happens. Those girls from Texas are laying some lovely eggs. I am shocked at the richness of their egg color but certainly very pleased.....especially for the Splash Copper pullet. She is laying darker than the Blue Copper pullet.

 

[pinkchick]

I think you're gonna have a very hard time finding Blue Coppers colored like that. Im not saying that they're not apealing birds, they are very pretty. As a matter of fact i myself have a couple Roos that are pretty far off from "ideal" coloring that all of my friends and myself absolutely love. I bet it would be alot easier finding Blue Coppers that are more to standard coloring and are really nice looking birds too. Really just depends on what apeals to you and thats what's important Hers one of my roos i was referring to. .

This bird is a Blue Birchen with gold leakage.

 

[Raven1]

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Got some pictures of my Birchens let me know what you think please.

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Pink you just jump in and out here lately! Looky what I have been doin' Tell me what you think. I wish Vickie would have a look too!

 

[mtb6]

I bought this bird from a lady who had pin of copper maran s she thought maybe she was an olive egger ive had it3 months. It's not crowing but to me it looks like birtchen. Roo. Im new to all this am I right?

 

[DMRippy]

Hi, New to chickens and new to marans, but love them so far. I purchased a beautiful (to me at least) blue copper pair last year at the state fair. Unfortunately the roo insisted on flying into the dog pen while out during the day and the dog finally said enough is enough and he is no more...didn't eat him, just made it clear that he wasn't to be in her yard. Then 6 months or so later we lost the hen to a fox...very upset about both of these losses because they both had great personalities, were beautiful and I can't find another pair even close to their coloring. So I was wondering if these two are so far from the standard that it will be difficult to find replacements? I've tried reading the standards, but it's like reading Greek to a newbie like myself. Does anyone have marans with similar coloring? This was a pretty young pair.

[COLOR=B22222]The coloring on the birds you had is very wrong for Blue Copper Marans. Might I suggest you look through earlier posts in this thread and see what the Blue Coppers should look like, I think, and I hope you would find them equally if not more attractive than what someone previously sold you. [/COLOR]

Are these those Marans I've seen on Rarebreed Auctions. I think they call them Veaches Brown Hayden Marans. http://www.rarebreedauctions.com/au...n-hayden-marans-baby-chicks&auction_id=113499 this is taken from the auction and is how the seller describes them [COLOR=0000CD]In this auction we are offering 15+ baby chicks from our flock of Brown Hayden Marans. We have the only flock of this variety of Marans that we know of anywhere. We have heard of those that have one or two birds like ours that came from the same bloodline. The gene for this color variety came from our Black Copper Marans. The first two generations of Blacks and Black Coppers that we bred were all Black or Black Copper. When we bred some relatives we started hatching these Brown chicks. At first I was upset at the impurety of my line. I decided to keep some of these birds and see what they turned out to be. They turned out to be absolutely stunning.[/COLOR] [COLOR=0000CD]Although there is some variation in light and dark and some difference in feather patterns, they breed 100% true when bred Brown to Brown. This Brown gene is recessive to the Black and Black Copper gene, but when crossed with the Splash, the chicks are Blue. The Brown hens are a mixture of different shades of brown, gold, red, gray, and black and all have some barring in the feathers, some more than others. The lighter roosters have a red body similar to the Rhode Island Red color, with gold hackles, and deep red upper wing and saddle feathers, with a black tail. The wing feathers are stripped with red and black. The darker roosters are feathered similar to the lights except the body and breast are what I call a dapple of red and black. Some have tried to catagorize our roosters as Black Tailed Buffs and the hens as Golden Salmon. The Golden Salmon and Wheaton roosters look about the same as Black Coppers. What really sets our variety aside from other varieties of Brown Marans is the color of the roosters. All the baby chicks feather out with brown and black barred feathers, with the roosters loosing the barring as the secondary feathers grow, while the hens retain some of the barring.[/COLOR] [COLOR=0000CD][COLOR=000000]They are quite pretty. [/COLOR][/COLOR]

wish I had the guts to make up a name for my off color birds and try to sell them as designer colors lol.if you read that it was just a fluke and see started breeding for them.

 

[Raven1]

I bought this bird from a lady who had pin of copper maran s she thought maybe she was an olive egger ive had it3 months. It's not crowing but to me it looks like birtchen. Roo. Im new to all this am I right?

YEP! Sorry