Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[math ace]

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Davlyn,

Where are you located ? ? - -- What state are you in ?
Where did you and you friend get your marans from last time?

How dark are those eggs ? ? You just can not tease like that - - - post some pics !

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Hi everybody.

I don't remember getting an answer to my question of what a "tail break" is. If I did and missed it please forgive me but I would really like to know for sure

I think it must be when the roos tail is sort of split in half? My roos haven't molted yet (not even 6 months old) I was hoping this would change after a molt.

Is that what a tail break is and might it molt out?

 

[snowbird]

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There are a few working on Bantams, one girl in southern Ohio I know for sure is at present.

 

[snowbird]

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A tail break is when the tail stops following the line of the back and gives you the 45 degree angle.

 

[Davlyn]

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Davlyn,

Where are you located ? ? - -- What state are you in ?
Where did you and you friend get your marans from last time?

How dark are those eggs ? ? You just can not tease like that - - - post some pics !

Hi. My friend ordered hers from " My pet chicken " online. Thats where she got her other chickens from & the ones she gave me. I do not have any marans yet. They wouldn't ship just 2. The eggs are as dark as the ones posted on this thread. I have Bantams Silkies, cochins , frizzles, 1 EE & 3 large RIR. I have 5 that are crossed between each hen & my #1 silkie roo. I like in Pike, NH. Grafton county, on the VT boarder.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

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A tail break is when the tail stops following the line of the back and gives you the 45 degree angle.

Thank you Don, I hate to admit this but I still don't understand. I thought a 45 degree angle was good. So when he wrote that it had a tail break--what did that mean?

I will try and find the reference

 

[kathyinmo]

Germaine,
I thought a tail break was where the tail does not flow smoothly off the back, but rather stops abruptly and then moves into the angle. I am probably wrong though.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

I found the post and here are the references to tail break. I thought tail break was bad... is it? I am feeling really dumb right now.

OK Germaine, you have a ton of pics here, but not the best angles to make a determination. Here is what I have come up with based on what I can see.
#7 blue: Good body, it has a tail break and what color are the eyes?
#1 blue: Pinched tail and it could be shalloow in the underline.
#3 green: Comb problem and I can't tell too much more from the pics.
#22 pink: eye color? tail break, but appears to have a good body.
Dark eye: good body, tail break.
The cull that is loose. The photo's are not at an angle that I can make a decent evaluation.

There seems to be comb problems with some of the males, so I would use that to cull. I would also look very closely at the females as the comb fault will be there too......just not as obvious.

 

[snowbird]

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A tail break is when the tail stops following the line of the back and gives you the 45 degree angle.

Thank you Don, I hate to admit this but I still don't understand. I thought a 45 degree angle was good. So when he wrote that it had a tail break--what did that mean?

I will try and find the reference

Picture what the tail would look like if it followed the same line as the back, straight right, when you have a break the tail goes in a different direction up. The tail break is good as long as it doesn.t go above 45 degree.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Don, has anyone told you today how wonderful you are? If not than I am the first. You are wonderful. If you had any clue how much I have been agonizing over the "tail break" you would laugh (or shake your head)

I have looked online and in books. Even the APA Standard. I couldn't find an answer. Maybe I just don't know where to look.

But thank you very much!