Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[robnms]

Thanks for the reply, I just wanted to make sure I gave them a chance.

 

[BevDavis]

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Hi

Yes, I'll post sme pictures.

Bev

 

[math ace]

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VillageChicken I am so glad you joined this thread. TWICE now, you have broke down the genetic theory so that I can understand it!
PLEASE, continue to post. I LOVE

your style !
Now if I understand correctly, I could cull the chick with yellow legs and still see it occur in my next generation because the daddy roo had to be carring at least one gene for the yellow leg.

Additionally, at least 1 out of four of these chicks carry a double dose of the white (no yellow) genes. It could be higher because there was more than one hen involved in the pairings and they would not all have to be carring the recessive yellow gene. So, if I kept careful records and did a few more hatches, I could find and eliminate the parents carring yellow genes.

 

[pinkchick]

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The black and blue coppers are carrying a melanotic gene that covers the color in the females hackles. The problem has always been to try to breed for hackle color, this is the first year I have done it and used an uncle to get the result.

Bev

Hackle color in the females is a tricky one. I am having little bits of improvement with each new generation of Blue Coppers but still have yet to get a fully copper necked female. Maybe this year!!!!!!!!

 

[BevDavis]

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Hi

It's very difficult to find a hygrometer that gives the correct reading so check the air sack for the best results.

Bev

 

[geebs]

Bev and Pink... My working theory is that it takes several generations using an overmelanised male...(just slightly overmelanised)... Does this sound prudent??? Oh and I am talking females here as far as trying to make the improvements with every subsequent generation.... My thinking is that if I correct it first time around and I am still trying to improve egg color or some other thing that it wouldn't be too wise to get to Rome in the first cross... otherwise the females would get lighter and lighter in the backcrossing... Does this sound feesible in your experiences??

Debbi: I don't know what your access to humidity is.. but even here in the PNW it is sometimes hard to keep the humidity up...I have found that laying a wet towel over foam bators helps this... again.. I don't know what you are using but those seem to have the biggest hatch rate trouble

 

[pinkchick]

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Hi

Yes, I'll post sme pictures.

Bev

Oooo...this is going to be pure torture for me. I promise I won't look.......NOT! This is going to be one of those times that I do get the drool all over my monitor I just know it. Going to get the squiggee ready.

 

[Debbi]

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It's very difficult to find a hygrometer that gives the correct reading so check the air sack for the best results.

Bev

Thanks Bev. Now to find a decent candler. Any suggestions? My new incubator sets the humidity automatically, and seemed, with the first hatch anyway, to be dead on with my hygrometer.

 

[geebs]

Debbi Walmart carries a Coleman with a Lumens of 117 .. It is the most bang for your buck... If you want to do better and the price goes up expotentially then there is a website: http://www.surefire.com/ You can look there and maybe shop CL for something that you find on the site or just purchase it outright from them.... There is quite a selection...

Epiphany!!! Columbian... when there are columbians... I will have to cement myself to the ground to keep from running all the way to Florida!!! That would be "off the hook" in Geebsie land.

 

[Debbi]

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Thanks geebs! I need to go to Wally-World this weekend, will check them out!