Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[bikechick]

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x4 on the hard to keep up the sheer volume of posts... However bring it on! With the great lessons and critiques relating to breeding Marans... (Really this is nothing, go read threads on a genetics forum once.)

The problem with a beginning and an advanced thread would be all the people we need to tell us if our birds are any good would be on the advanced thread... The rest of us would be telling each other "Oh he is so cute" "oh what a pretty bird" Whether or not the bird is a mutt, or a genetic mutant, that's offspring may never be anything near to the standard.

Because of the honest critiques of various birds posted I am beginning to get an eye of what a good bird looks like..

I am thankful for the "advanced" group who put up with the not so advanced...(such as myself..)

ON

Yeah! I tried the genetics thing

I agree 100% with the rest, THANK YOU to everyone willing to help me learn, and bring it on!!!!!

I'm also learning alot, but hard to read the back posts when the new posts keep rolling. A good problem. I'm going to take pictures of my two BCM cockerels this AM and dive in with both feet.

 

[coq au vin]

It's like a public swimming pool in here. Just dive right in. There's lots of eye candy and also you have to watch out for floaters.

 

[pinkchick]

bikechick!!!!


Yep.....just dive right in!

 

[math ace]

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Don, I can handle this if you all don't go into the e+ e- s+ s- and other genetics that I just don't have the background in . . . .

 

[pinkchick]

if you all don't go into the e+ e- s+ s-

Math~ I think your safe on this one.

 

[pawtraitart]

I, for one, am very interested in the " e+ e- s+ s-" stuff, but in all honesty I don't have the time right now to learn it all. I'm proficient in equine genetics, but there are more variables in chicken genetics than I can wrap my brain around right now. For those who know the "code", please continue to post them. Maybe I'll learn it by osmosis. LOL

 

[coq au vin]

Can I get some new Cuckoos from the last two remaining Cuckoo hens and a Black Copper cockerel?

Wouldn't it just be a matter of culling the leaky offspring?

 

[geebs]

Pink... You will find her in my bed with me.... Walk quietly... I sleep light.. Tee hee

Whacha hatchin? I am going to give the gal one of my coppers instead of a blue... One of the boys I gave her... Well it crowed.. DRAT!!! so I am trying to make good... I will want to know when and if you have any blue gals... (gotta be gals..) Do not want a repeat performance... They were 3 month old or better and I was "sure"... Darn marans...One had a good comb and the other none at all and shaped like a hen.... I don't get it...

 

[pinkchick]

coq au vin~

yes......BC roo over Cuckoo hens will give you Cuckoo males and black females. Breed a cuckoo male from that cross back to his mother/s, but the cockerel from this cross will only have one copy of the barring gene and will be colored like that of a female cuckoo, to get a roo that has 2 copies of the barring gene simply breed the roo with one copy back to his mother and the offspring from that cross should be all cuckoo, and the boys from this cross will have 2 copies of the barring gene and feather out like that of a Cuckoo male with 2 copies. Female barring is white barring on a black feather and male barring with 2 copies of the gene will be black barring on a white feather. Hope this helps and it wasn't to confusing and if I am wrong hopefully someone will correct me.

 

[pinkchick]

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Wacha hatchin? Eggs silly!!!!

A truck load of Delaware eggs from Kathy (and I mean a truck load) a few Marans mostly from my project pen of blues and splash, a few pullet eggs from the blue copper breeding pen, Welsummers (my other chicken addiction) and some Olive Eggers.

I will let you know when I have a couple of blue copper pullets available.....hey do you want blue or blue copper?