Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Regin]

Okay everyone my BCM are starting to hatch day 21 we have one Olive Egger hatched this morning. I have seven BCM pipping and one Olive Egger at this time

YAY!

 

[CP-FARM]

So exciting, and so lucky! I started with 6 eggs only three were viable. Mine are due to hatch Saturday. I think I need to get some of your eggs! I also plan on crossing a Maran roo x a legbar for my Olive Eggers.

I do have a batch due on March 17 with a BCM over a Cream Legbar. I will see how that turns out she is a pure white cream Legbar.

 

[ChicagoClucker]

I do have a batch due on March 17 with a BCM over a Cream Legbar. I will see how that turns out she is a pure white cream Legbar.

Ohhhh, I want to see pics! I will keep an eye out for your post! Unfortunately, my cream Legbars are just about to start laying so I have a while before I will get to hatch. But yours will be my inspiration!

 

[CP-FARM]

The first BCM just hatched out.

 

[CP-FARM]

Ohhhh, I want to see pics! I will keep an eye out for your post! Unfortunately, my cream Legbars are just about to start laying so I have a while before I will get to hatch. But yours will be my inspiration!

I will most definitely post pictures!

 

[ataraninja1]

Well, technically they would still be purebred Marans, just a cross of different varieties and Yes, technically it would be dilluted if I understand it correctly because, the reason that cuckoo chicks can be sexed at birth is due to the male getting 2 cuckoo genes, one from each parent. The female only gets one. So I would theorize that a BCM over Cuckoo hens, would result in the males being cuckoo, but only carrying one gene. So they would look more like this Cuckoo pullet (a darker undercolor with little white):



Usually the males are a lighter color with the barring being more sharply defined. But you could breed the single cuckoo roos back to the hens and with selective breeding get double cuckoo roos again. I was considering doing that in my flock because my hatchery Marans lay an egg that's about a 4 on the chart. Pretty, but not at all competitive. But I think I'm just going to stick with the ones I have and take the long way around to improve egg color.

 

[ataraninja1]

Yes, and also the automatic proofreader in some of us notice these things. Since Marans is a place name in France, it would be more like typing Los Angele CA or Queen NY or De Moine IA or Dalla TX or

somesuch.

It might be an auto-proofread for you, but for the computer it's not. When I type Marans in the computer it says its wrong. Oh wow, and if you right click and try to correct the spelling, you get: mar ans, mar-ans, martians, mansards, etc. Lol, it's really no big deal. If people are getting the idea and not trying to put them on a show table, I don't see where it matters.

And by the way can someone who knows what they are talking about please clarify for me the pronunciation of Marans and Cuckoo???!!! I'm getting so frustrated by it right now. I'm usually an English nerd but people keep telling me I'm saying it wrong.

 

[ladycat]

And by the way can someone who knows what they are talking about please clarify for me the pronunciation of Marans and Cuckoo???!!! I'm getting so frustrated by it right now. I'm usually an English nerd but people keep telling me I'm saying it wrong.

Click the audio links at the tops of these pages to get the French pronunctiation:
https://www.howtopronounce.com/french/marans/
http://www.pronouncenames.com/pronounce/Maran

I can't even say it like that! It's not pronounced like it's spelled!

So does anyone know the proper anglicized pronunctiation?

According to: http://www.backyardpoultrymag.com/marans_chickens_layers_of_chocolate_brown_eggs/
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[XxMingirlxX]

Using my basic knowledge of French, you would pronounce it similar to saying Maran with out the s but with emphasis on the first syllable and little emphasis on the second. You ignore the s as the letter before it is also a consonant.

But as we are speak english you could get away with just pronouncing it phonetically as that follows our language rules more closely, like when an English word comes over to French eg Internet they apply their rules and it becomes L'internet pronounce lon-ter-ne(t) rather than int-er-ner that we would do.

 

[DMRippy]

Well, technically they would still be purebred Marans, just a cross of different varieties and Yes, technically it would be dilluted if I understand it correctly because, the reason that cuckoo chicks can be sexed at birth is due to the male getting 2 cuckoo genes, one from each parent. The female only gets one. So I would theorize that a BCM over Cuckoo hens, would result in the males being cuckoo, but only carrying one gene. So they would look more like this Cuckoo pullet (a darker undercolor with little white):



Usually the males are a lighter color with the barring being more sharply defined. But you could breed the single cuckoo roos back to the hens and with selective breeding get double cuckoo roos again. I was considering doing that in my flock because my hatchery Marans lay an egg that's about a 4 on the chart. Pretty, but not at all competitive. But I think I'm just going to stick with the ones I have and take the long way around to improve egg color.

That cross is a sex link cross. Your cockerels will hatch with head spots and will have copper leaking as they get older. Not of any use in a breeding pen.

Were you talking about a post on this thread? best to use the QUOTE button so we can follow the thoughts. Otherwise it just seems like a very random post.