Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[ladycat]

Ok, a few pages back, I posted pics of my chipmunk chicks that came out of a (supposedly) pure BCM pen from (supposedly) Davis line chickens. I hatched them out myself from hatching eggs I bought from a local man, so I did see that they hatched out of very dark (I would say 7) eggs.

Maybe the hens the eggs came from were purebred Marans, but are you sure he had Marans roosters with them? It's possible he's not separating his chickens- they might all be running together.

When you bought the eggs, did you see his setup? Did he have breeds separated?

It's also possible that he had them running together, then separated them but started saving eggs too soon after putting the correct hens and roosters together.

 

[Ihilani Coffee]

Maybe the hens the eggs came from were purebred Marans, but are you sure he had Marans roosters with them? It's possible he's not separating his chickens- they might all be running together.

When you bought the eggs, did you see his setup? Did he have breeds separated?

It's also possible that he had them running together, then separated them but started saving eggs too soon after putting the correct hens and roosters together.

And then there are the fence-jumpers, the "Oh-crap-the-gate-is-open" crossbreds, and the seriously lame "You-mean-they-don't-just-breed-with-their-own-kind?" types.

 

[tbmorgan]

I'm actually talking to the man I got the eggs from right now, via text, and he swears the chick is pure Marans and the egg came from his splash pen, and there were no "accidents."

 

[ladycat]

That red and white one is not splash, no way no how.

 

[tbmorgan]

I wonder.......
I know that for horses and dogs, you can send a hair sample off to UC Davis and they will tell you exactly what you have...is there such a service for chickens? I would love to do DNA testing on my oddballs and find out what they actually are!
My mystery chicks are going in my laying flock, since they don't meet SOP by a long shot, but I love puzzles and am seriously interested in finding out what they actually are! I don't know if I'll ever really know, but maybe someone here has seen this before....

 

[CarolinaSkies]

I wonder.......
I know that for horses and dogs, you can send a hair sample off to UC Davis and they will tell you exactly what you have...is there such a service for chickens? I would love to do DNA testing on my oddballs and find out what they actually are!
My mystery chicks are going in my laying flock, since they don't meet SOP by a long shot, but I love puzzles and am seriously interested in finding out what they actually are! I don't know if I'll ever really know, but maybe someone here has seen this before....

LOL! I thought the exact SAME thing and posted something about chicken DNA testing on BYC. I was told that chicken DNA testing didn't exist. : < It's those chipmunks that get you thinking. And I have NO, idea about Peach sickle. What did she look like as a chick?

 

[jonsccm]

I have some BCM chicks almost two weeks. On a couple of them it looks like the last primary flight feathers are white. Is this normal? I have seen that in black austrolorps and the go all black later but this is my first batch of BCM

 

[DMRippy]

I have some BCM chicks almost two weeks. On a couple of them it looks like the last primary flight feathers are white. Is this normal? I have seen that in black austrolorps and the go all black later but this is my first batch of BCM

Normal

 

[jonsccm]

Normal

Thank you!

 

[tbmorgan]

Skies, she was very pale yellow...almost white. I thought she was a normal splash until she feathered in all weird like that. I have another one that IS a normal splash...supposedly her sibling, from the same pen. Whatever.