Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Wynette]

Thanks, pink! I've had a challenging few weeks, but you know, BYC is sort of a safe haven if you know what I mean. It feels good to be getting back into a "normal" state!

 

[cook_kaka_ook]

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Thank you Wynette. Really you don't mind? Your avatar shows stunning eggcelent egg colors.

 

[Lotsapaints]

Those are some beauties Cook I'm hoping to get some soon myself. Pink on some "blue bred" pullets I have they were supposed to be blue coppers and one shows no copper and the other one just a few flecks of really dark mahogany I put them in with my Cuckoos they were in a mixed pen with some ugly Black Coppers and I got a birchen out of those blues too but he's ugly too in the eating pen now...so I'll just have to see what I get if I decide to hatch some of those out the one that's laying has a darker egg than the cuckoos but how much more is hard to tell as it has that dusty color overlay so it's plum colored...

 

[Dixiedoodle]

One of my new Black Copper Marans.. I am so excited about these two new girls. They are so pretty and I love their little fringe on their leg and down the outer toe!!! What do you all think of her?? She is four months old..

 

[Illia]

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Nice! Proper coloring, nice body so far. . . I like her.

 

[Lotsapaints]

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She looks nice for her age I hope it's my monitor she doesn't have a yellow cast to her shanks does she? I only know from experience I had a bunch that have yellowish shanks.....in my cull pen now.

 

[Dixiedoodle]

no yellow on their shanks.. thanks

 

[jeremy]

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Lotsapaints, I'd love to see one of those plum colored eggs!

 

[snowbird]

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The legs appear to be greenish yellow and I see a white ear lobe, These with the brown cast to their feathers I cull from my Marans, others say they are happy with the Brown feathering. If you are just breeding for egg color it will make no difference.

 

[geebs]

I agree with snowbird... It looks like there is penedesenca in it... and the leg color???? IDK.... Not a good example of proposed breed standard but may make a nice chocolate egg layer!!! Really dark eyes... Not something I would want to breed forward for standard but would eat its eggies.

Sad news... One of Geebs birdies drowned in water bucket... I don't know how they managed this lest someone sat on her.. she was tall enough to step out of it... I had forgotten to put the ladder back in it... It was one of my Bayhorsebonne pullets... so sad... I am going to mourn now... sniff sniff..