Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Organics North]

This is my favorite pullet from her, color wise. Her copper does not show up very well in this pic, but she has more than mama. This shot was taken when she was 19 weeks old and she's
not quite the butterball she looks here (I think she'd just done the feather shake thing) but she has pretty good size, coloring/lacing and lighter eyes, which is more difficult to achieve in
da blues, in my experience.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/40145_dsc09838_copy.jpg

Unfortunately, she has sparse leg feathering. I like her egg color though, (she laid the spherical eggs in my previous post) and she has a good comb...so I'm going to work with her.

Thats it I better get outside and feed and hug my butterballs....

ON​

 

[pinkchick]

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Will give you my opinion, sometimes we just have to use what we have in any breed of chicken. Myself I will never breed another great looking BC with white in tail, wing or Hackle no way no how. If you have a high tail Marans just breed to a lower tail female and one with the tail gathered close together and longer back with width. Don

I guess I like the thrill of the challenge.

 

[snowbird]

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I've 6 Marans left after selling a few locally. I think I have only one roo in the bunch. My Blue Copper is the one who throws chicks with a sometimes copper spot on the head,
so I'm surprised you got one of these from my Black Copper. My previous hatch was all about the Delawares and W/BW Ameraucanas...this hatch should give me more Marans
to work with.

My Blue Copper was very dark at start, when I emailed pics of her to my breeder, she said those are the ones that that have the good dark lacing. She has thrown a few that are lighter,
but I mostly get dark chicks out of her, and honestly can not always tell them 100% from the Black Coppers at first. As they feather out they will be more dark gray than black though.

This is my favorite pullet from her, color wise. Her copper does not show up very well in this pic, but she has more than mama. This shot was taken when she was 19 weeks old and she's
not quite the butterball she looks here (I think she'd just done the feather shake thing) but she has pretty good size, coloring/lacing and lighter eyes, which is more difficult to achieve in
da blues, in my experience.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/40145_dsc09838_copy.jpg

Unfortunately, she has sparse leg feathering. I like her egg color though, (she laid the spherical eggs in my previous post) and she has a good comb...so I'm going to work with her.

ummmmmmmmm......LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!

It's my understanding (Thanks to Amazondoc....Thank you Ione!!!!

) that the darker blues with crisp lacing are preferred for the overall color of the blues. Hummmmmm.......now don't get me wrong I love the darker blues but I also love the lighter blues, looks as though I will just have to keep working on some token lighter blues with awesome lacing just because I can't stand to see them left out.

BTW: Lovely eggs you put in the 'bator!!!!! You go girl! I gotta say there is just a great feeling about putting eggs in the bator that came from your own birds.

Kim, not to be disagreeable but in the end it will be the judge that will determine the shade of Blue that will win. Please do not get rid of the lighter Blues just yet as they will beat the Dark Blues in the showroom. Don

 

[snowbird]

How do we go back in the thread without going page by page. Don

 

[pinkchick]

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Act of Congress???????

Just being funny! I have no idea, when I go back in the thread it is one page at a time.

Don~ I will not get rid of the lighter blues at all....will just work harder on the lacing with them. I love all the shades of blues and I seriously think they should all be acceptable. No fear none of my blues are going anywhere. I'm too hooked.

 

[Debbi]

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Act of Congress???????

Just being funny! I have no idea, when I go back in the thread it is one page at a time.

Don~ I will not get rid of the lighter blues at all....will just work harder on the lacing with them. I love all the shades of blues and I seriously think they should all be acceptable. No fear none of my blues are going anywhere. I'm too hooked.

What??? I thought you had sent Gnarles with his backpack to me??

Mornin' all!!

 

[Debbi]

I was up late last night, got froggy, and went into a French Marans forum. I hardly expected to get an answer with my horrible French, but got two! I had asked what they see as the difference between the Black Copper and the Brown-Red; were they one and the same, or are they genetically different? The first poster spoke of a difference in the color between dark red, I'm guessing mahogany, and the copper. I don't think he understood the question. Here is what Christian had to say:


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This is absolutely not easy for us to answer this question because it requires both the genetic control any of our poultry breeds as pure and fluent English.
But I know who can answer this question, we must ask on the forum of MOAC is David Hancox he'd have to ask ...
David Hancox is our delegate for Australia and he is accustomed to the genetics that control as well as in the English language in the world adpatée poultry pure breeds of poultry.
Even in Europe, there are inconsistencies in the use of varietal names of colors. Europe itself has not yet had time to put order in all the correct names of the different color varieties of feathers!
Some still confuse the color partridge with salmon-golden color, for example ... which is genetically much different since the former belongs to the family (eb) and the second belongs to the family (e ).

I believe he's correct, David would be the best one to ask. Isn't he on here at times?? Blackdotte??

 

[pinkchick]

Debbi~ Morning!

I signed up to that site as well and wouldn't you know it since my puter crashed I am unable to use my translator and haven't been able to chat with them for a while.

 

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[snowbird]

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Thanks Kathy, I knew someone must know.