Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[DMRippy]

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Some. Not too much right now.

 

[sasimpson77]

Hi everyone looks like I am in marans. I am going to have to build more pens as I now have 5 varieties of marans. I originally started with a trio of black coppers, I then aquired a trio of blues, I liked them so much that I then ordered white maram eggs from a BYC member, I ended up with two live chicks (hoping for a pullet and cockeral), and picked up some wheaten maran chicks from a local sale (I have two of these chicks left pullet and cockeral woohoo) I really liked them so when the blue copper breeder offered me his whole flock I jumped on it. I picked them up and he told me by the way there is a pair of birchens you may want to seperate out so I did. There was also a couple of partridge hens I was planning on leaving them with the coppers but received a email the other day from a gentleman with two cockerals) he wanted to give to me, and when they arrived low and behold there is a partridge cockeral so needless to say they will be seperated out. What have I gotten myself into lol. So excited to see where this goes. I do have a question though should I be crossing the partridges with the copers to improve color?

 

[ladycat]

I'm surprised they didn't have a minimum number of chicks to ship. Or did you order others as well?

Meyer has a minimum order of 3.

 

[DMRippy]

Hi everyone looks like I am in marans. I am going to have to build more pens as I now have 5 varieties of marans. I originally started with a trio of black coppers, I then aquired a trio of blues, I liked them so much that I then ordered white maram eggs from a BYC member, I ended up with two live chicks (hoping for a pullet and cockeral), and picked up some wheaten maran chicks from a local sale (I have two of these chicks left pullet and cockeral woohoo) I really liked them so when the blue copper breeder offered me his whole flock I jumped on it. I picked them up and he told me by the way there is a pair of birchens you may want to seperate out so I did. There was also a couple of partridge hens I was planning on leaving them with the coppers but received a email the other day from a gentleman with two cockerals) he wanted to give to me, and when they arrived low and behold there is a partridge cockeral so needless to say they will be seperated out. What have I gotten myself into lol. So excited to see where this goes. I do have a question though should I be crossing the partridges with the copers to improve color?

I am not aware that Marans come in partridge. Would be interesting. I toyed with the idea but all the crosses to get them involved yellow skin so I just didn't want to take on that task. So in short.... NO don't mix the partridge with the coppers. No good will come from it. What makes them partridge? I don't know that you could tell a partridge cockerel from a copper with mahogany.

 

[bamadude]

3 marans eggs hatched. 2 are solid white chicks. Are they wheaton or cuckoo? Will try to post pics later

 

[DMRippy]

3 marans eggs hatched. 2 are solid white chicks. Are they wheaton or cuckoo? Will try to post pics later

What kind of Marans eggs? Coppers? Then probably wheaten. Cuckoos don't hatch white, they look like barred rocks at hatch.... sort of.

 

[bamadude]

There were black coppers, cuckoo, wheatons, and blue.

 

[ladycat]

I am not aware that Marans come in partridge. Would be interesting. I toyed with the idea but all the crosses to get them involved yellow skin so I just didn't want to take on that task. So in short.... NO don't mix the partridge with the coppers. No good will come from it. What makes them partridge? I don't know that you could tell a partridge cockerel from a copper with mahogany.

Mossy comes out of Black Coppers. It's undesireable to breed them when you are trying to breed Black Coppers.

A lot of mossies have a very strong resemblance to partridge.

I've got some mossies that look like partridge. I'm not going to breed them back to the coppers, but they should give me some nice dark eggs.

 

[DMRippy]

There were black coppers, cuckoo, wheatons, and blue.

Than they are wheatEn.

 

[sasimpson77]

Mossy comes out of Black Coppers. It's undesireable to breed them when you are trying to breed Black Coppers.

A lot of mossies have a very strong resemblance to partridge.

I've got some mossies that look like partridge. I'm not going to breed them back to the coppers, but they should give me some nice dark eggs.

that is good information to know I guess I will cull them then don't want anything that is not good could they be golden salmon marans then? I guess it shows you how much I know I will take pictures later and seek opinions