Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[math ace]

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Sorry to hear this geebs

Events such as this put things in perspective - - -
Nothing is as important as good friends

 

[pinkchick]

geebs~

 

[chics in the sun]

I'm sorry, Geebs. Hang in there.


Here is a more recent egg. I wanted to show the one she laid today to get an idea of what color it would fall on the scale, but my boyfriend ATE IT before I got home. This is her fifth egg from a few days ago, I think:

Look what is happening to her comb - half of it falls to one side, and the other half to the other side. When you look at her head on, she looks like she has little horns - Devil chicken!!

Just a nice picture under a tree they love to forage beneth:

 

[math ace]

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Lilacfeather - - - - you can still breed her. There are lots of things I have learned through this thread and one of them is the idea complementry breeding . . . . In other words, if your hen has a tail that is too high, then you would breed her to a roo with a tail too low - - - so that the chicks would have a tail the averaged out the faults.

I was hoping to have a discussion on tails today. Instead, these folks have been discussing egg color while I was gone

I don't know if the stray feather counts as in the angle measurement that is being proposed for BCM. . .
Pink did a good job today of explaining the long back concept. . .

Perhaps, tomorrow we can re-visit this topic !

Lilacfeather Your splash marans are very pretty and you are very lucky to have gotten some. I am still learning the proper "form", so I am not qualified to really say anything about their shape - - - but they are pretty !

Thanks for being a good sport and letting us use your bird in my proposed discussion.

 

[math ace]

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I posted a picture of my blue copper's LARGE egg the other day. That color is her typical color. She lays it 5 out of 7 days. Every once in a long while, she will throw be a lighter egg that has huge dark spots on it . . . . I set one of those eggs to experiment with what you are asking now - - - If 1 out of 60 eggs is messed up or disappointed - - - then that should not be held against her. Her egg color gene is pretty consistent . . . I would think anything - - -non-genetic could explain the fluke egg every once in a while.

I won't be able to confirm my suspicions for about 6 months . . . .BUT my hypothesis is that this light egg will produce a maran that lays eggs that are at least as dark as her momma's normal eggs

That seems like it would be true.

My question after this would be.....if you have a hen that lays a nice, dark egg 5 out of 7 eggs...is that "enough"? I guess I'd opt to breed a hen that lays a nice, dark egg the majority of the time...5 out of 7 is only 71% of the time. I guess I've never thought about it, most of my girls "usually" lay a nice, dark egg, and it's only very seldom that I get a lighter one. This makes me wonder if my girls are the exception, or the rule?

Sorry Wynette - - I have too much background noise going on with my children .
"She lays it 5 out of 7 days" not " 5 out of 7 eggs". In other words she takes a 2 day holiday every week from ALL EGG LAYING
- - -not just dark eggs. . . So, her productivity is good ( to me) .

SELDOM, to me, is what I described as 1 out of 60 eggs . . . or once every 12 weeks she will throw a soft egg or a light egg or even a rough egg. I think having an opps moment once every three months is ok - - - AM I WRONG ? ? ? Is this not considerd seldom ? ? ?

 

[snowbird]

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This pullet has what would be termed a Squirrel tail, has she molted the juve feathers yet?

 

[math ace]

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This pullet has what would be termed a Squirrel tail, has she molted the juve feathers yet?

SICKLE FEATHER SICKLE FEATHER SICKLE FEATHER - - - I have been trying all day to think of what that feather was called.

EVERYTIME I would sit down to type - - - SOMEBODY at my house would come and interrupt and I would lose my train of thought

This has been going on for the last 2 hours

I am so going to send everybody to BED if they don't get a LIFE real soon

That crazy feather is a sickle feather. So, Don we include the sickle feather when we are measuring the tails angle ? ? ?

 

[snowbird]

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This pullet has what would be termed a Squirrel tail, has she molted the juve feathers yet?

SICKLE FEATHER SICKLE FEATHER SICKLE FEATHER - - - I have been trying all day to think of what that feather was called.

EVERYTIME I would sit down to type - - - SOMEBODY at my house would come and interrupt and I would lose my train of thought

This has been going on for the last 2 hours

I am so going to send everybody to BED if they don't get a LIFE real soon

That crazy feather is a sickle feather. So, Don we include the sickle feather when we are measuring the tails angle ? ? ?

From what I see if she has not molted would wait until she molts because her feathers could of been damaged.
All the tail feathers are included when figuring the tail angle.

 

[snowbird]

After looking at the Dark Egg thread and seeing someone crying about a critique on his wheaten he received on this thread. It might be a good idea not to critique and say the truth unless the person say they want to hear the truth. This leaves most of us hanging since we do not know whether to be honest or just say what the person wants to hear. After reading his post on the other thread I think I will not critque Marans for a while.

 

[fdnick]

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My heck.. why in the world would someone offer up a photo for critique if they did not want the TRUTH?
amazing!!!!