Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[sewandgrow]

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lol...Dave, it's not you...'tis the season, I think...cold weather and the holidays have everyone preoccupied. There is not much
going on on any of the threads here lately (except for the fast moving and highly entertaining NY hatch thread).

I don't watch TV, but spend my evenings hopping from here to other sites and forums of some other interests. There is not
much going on anywhere...

Time for me to pop a movie into the DVD drive... or maybe get more than 6 hours sleep for a change

I agree Dave. It's not you..................... It's the time of year for one thing. Busy, busy, busy & not with birds for me. hardly anyone laying & the weather stinks so I don't want to be out there seeing what's happening(nothing) anyway. I had a garden club meeting & took a friend to the doctor, trip to the feed store for Omalene 200 & they were out, wasted trip Finally get back home & feel like the day is almost gone & I still have egg ornaments to work on.....................No Dave...it is NOT you...it's just life!!!! Lol

 

[sewandgrow]

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Congratulations Pink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't you just love it when these kids of ours make us proud?? LOL

 

[sewandgrow]

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Hi Kristie,
You know I have always liked your rooster. I hope my eggs come from him next month. Perfect is never expected . I think he is beatiful, but then I think mine is too.....LOL Maybe I am prejudiced,..............Ya think?????? LOL

 

[Ivywoods]

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Congratulations Pink!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Don't you just love it when these kids of ours make us proud?? LOL

Congratulations, Pink.

I'd like to "toot my horn" a little, too. My youngest has applied to Kansas State University and Wichita State. Both have accepted him, but I am pretty sure he is going to choose KSU. He will be going into mechanical engineering.

My oldest son is now a senior at KSU. He has his mechanical engineering with nuclear option (Nuclear engineer.) Just recently he changed his mind about the direction of his career, and has decided he would like to become a radiation oncologist. Both boys are very gifted. In fact, a year or so ago my oldest scored the highest score that had ever been scored on a certain calculus test at KSU. He was very happy and I am SOOOOOOO proud of him.

Great kids and of course I love them so much. The difficult part, Pink, about all this, is that once they go off to college you sure don't get to see them as much as you would like. My very best wishes to you and your daughter.

 

[berkeleysprings]

if anyone has a picture of a wheaten marans with no fluff in tail PLEASE POSTa picture or link !,i have been fallowing the threds for a few years and would love to see one

 

[math ace]

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Have you tried posting the request on the NEW wheaten marans thread ? ? ?

 

[pinkchick]

Thanks Sew and Ivy!

Congrats to you and your boys as well Ivy. It's soooo nice to hear good things about kids. They are the future.

New Hatcher~ Congrats on your lovely girls. I wish I could help you out with them but I know very little about the cuckoos, but I know some great BYC'er will come by and help you out.

HenThymes~ They are adorable, Congrats!

ON~

WoW.....that's quite the idea. Breeding in the rosecomb wouldn't be to hard, but it would certainly take a while to regain egg color and perhaps type, depending on the bird used to intro the rosecomb. They also would not be considered pure, but I do see where you are going with it and why.

Simply cross a rosecombed bird to a Marans and keep the birds that have the best representation of the rosecomb that you get, (this may be tricky because I believe when crossing a rose and a single you may get a combo of both at first or perhaps for a couple of gens. Keep all birds that closely resemble Marans type as well.......then the long wait begins for the egg. Keep the best birds that have the combs that you want and type and the darkest egg, but from there I wouldn't know how or which bird to breed them back to....because in my mind breeding them back to a Marans with a single comb would only increase single combs in the next gen. but would help increase egg color. Lots and lots of culling would be required as you know. WoW.....what a project.

Hoping more will come by and give you their opinions........

 

[Raven1]

Kim empty your PM box its full I sent you an email instead

 

[pinkchick]

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I did and I got your email......so sorry to hear that! Naughty doggies!

My PM's fill up faster than I can clean them out....lol....I mentioned on another thread that I wanted to rehome my Lav. AM's and I can't keep up with the responses.

 

[Lotsapaints]

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Hummm one looks like a wheaten and the red one I don't know my Cuckoos don't look like that at hatch where did they come from?

Do you have some pictures of your chicks you could share?? I couldn't find anything on the internet.

I searched for some pictures of my goldens

the darkest one is a Golden the one in front is a White and the one in the back is a Silver with Wheaten according to Bev he now is a light Silver with partial white tail feathers I don't know what I'm going to do with him until I test mate him to see if he carries recessive white.....he is nice and big with feathered shanks