Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[ladycat]

did you open up all of your unhatched eggs? You may have had a few more if you didn't and not known it. I can't remember what the odds are of the recessive white in the BCM but it is I think 25% chicks should hatch white and I believe it goes by number of matings, not number of eggs laid as one mating can create fertile eggs for up to 21 days. If your hen that has the recessive white gene (if she does.....) is not the cocks favorite, he may not mate her very often and that would help explain the low percentage.

No I haven't opened the unhatched eggs.

When I put the eggs in the Brinsea, I get an 80-90% hatch.

If I don't have room in the Brinsea, I put them in a styro and I only get about a 50% hatch.

 

[maryhysong]

I didn't initially respond because i don't have as much experience as others, but your pic did catch my eye. I always fight having birds with a topline that doesn't have enough angle, so for me she is a keeper. It may be the photo but her head seems a tad small. Of course she will change alot very soon but i like her !!! . As long as I have the ability to cross my nice birds with one that has good leg feathering I don't worry too much about that if everything else is good, because I always get enough chicks from them that get the feathers and then cull the remainder.

My problem has been that one line of birds I started with were all chest and no butt; literally their legs were darn near under their tails. Another line ended up with ski slope backs. I know Marans are supposed to slope from neck to tail but those birds were ridiculous. I know she will change a lot over the next couple of months but trying to thin out pens now, getting rid of the ones that will never be even possibilities to give the rest some space. I am just wondering about that back & tail angle since squirrel tail has been another issue...

 

[Pokerface]

OK, this may be a stupid question to some Maran experts but, I purchased some chicks last week and they were labeled as Black Maran. No BCM or any mention of copper. Were these classed as BM to be safe or is there an actual BM breed?

 

[BCMaraniac]

OK, this may be a stupid question to some Maran experts but, I purchased some chicks last week and they were labeled as Black Maran. No BCM or any mention of copper. Were these classed as BM to be safe or is there an actual BM breed?

There are Black Marans, but they are not common, as I understand.

 

[lawatt]

and Marans is always spelled with an s (it is not plural), so i'd be a bit skeptical of a breeder who spells it without...

 

[Blue Roo]

Hello all I have a question I have two young blue splash roosters they have some copper feathers here a there is this common and is it good or bad thanks

 

[BCMaraniac]

Hello all I have a question I have two young blue splash roosters they have some copper feathers here a there is this common and is it good or bad thanks

I think if it is from a copper mating that there can be copper. Is that good or bad??? I don't know, but I am sure someone will

 

[Twins42308]

This is my 6 week old Marans. I am trying to determine what kind of Marans. I was just told Marans when I got it. Thanks.

 

[DMRippy]

Hello all I have a question I have two young blue splash roosters they have some copper feathers here a there is this common and is it good or bad thanks

They are COPPERS. Copper does not show much on splash birds so if you see it they are coppers not solid color birds.

 

[carnivore]

This is my 6 week old Marans. I am trying to determine what kind of Marans. I was just told Marans when I got it. Thanks.

Check to see if the bottoms of her feet are yellow.