Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[VillageChicken]

HenThymes - your gold rooster looks alot like one of the barred crosses I am growing out with my Bresse for comparison. There's a picture of him posted here He is only 3 weeks old.

The rooster from this cross is a split barred gold birchen/wheaten plymouth rock. The hen is ISA brown, so also wheaten.

Your other rooster definitely looks silver, but looks like he is maybe wheaten with columbian to give him so much white.

 

[HenThymes]

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WOW they do look allot alike!

He was suppose to be a she and was suppose to be from gold cuckoo's. I'm beginning to think something jumped the fence..

 

[math ace]

I have two 11 week old BCM roos that I am going to post pictures of

ROO #1 - - Too much brown in the chest and way too many points on the comb. Also, this is roo with the MOST leg feathering. . .

Looking at the cooper in the chest - - ONLY the copper in the chest. . . What would I want to match this guy up to in order to get the best offspring.
I have some pale blue hens with almost no coppering in their necks - - would he be a good date for them?

ROO #2 - - - No Coppering in his chest and less points on his comb. BUT he comb does this wave thing at the front - - - is that a DQ?
Could I use him and produce chicks without the "WAVE"?

Amazingly enough, these two cockerels are from the same hen and roo. It was extremely windy today so these were the best pics I could get

 

[pinkchick]

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Nice boy! Do you have nice egg color? He is handsome and lovely photos.

Thank you

Not great color I think (?) but it is Ok. I post picture

http://global.cybersite.se/files/c3...9bc/ef094734-c623-4965-a305-a2a204f1f2c94.jpg

http://global.cybersite.se/files/c3...9bc/12f0bc7c-61a5-4422-8097-d6d09805f5c44.jpg

Welcome to BYC and the Marans thread! That is a nice solid colored egg! I have a gal who lays one just like that and I love them!

 

[pinkchick]

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BLOODLINE FROM MARAN & BELGIUM


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ENJOY THE COPPER MARANS FOLK

Thanks for sharing them! They are lovely! Nice big boys!!!!

 

[math ace]

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OK - - THE FORUM is OPEN - - - Don't let all that MARAN FORUM trash talk stop you from giving me the feed back that I AM ASKING FOR . . .
Come on little chickie friends - - Let me hear you . .

 

[pinkchick]

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I have heard that the sun can give them a bleached out effect.

 

[flgardengirl]

I think I would use cockeral #2. I would be afraid to get mossiness on the breasts of the babies with the first one. How much leg feathering does the second one have? Any? If it is just scant I would use him with females that have good leg feathering because it is dominant anyways. The wavy front of the comb on #2...I don't know that much about them but I did have one young guy last spring that had that and once the comb really began growing when he started maturing it is either gone or the middle part got bigger in porportion to it and you can't tell at all. I don't know if they are all that way though.

With every generation of blue coppers that I keep breeding back to black coppers or blue with good coppering, the coppering in the females seems to get better.

 

[marquisella]

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The standard for the blue coppers hasn't been officially submitted by the standard committee. I don't know how that "lemon" thing got in there, that was before my time....

The only standard that the club has voted on is the black copper, so all the rest, even though they appear as proposed, have not really been looked at "officially"

The next variety is Wheaten, then White, probably cuckoo and then blue copper. Both Wheaten & White varieties have already gone through the preliminary showing, they just need the final "big 50" show for acceptance.

There is a lot of discussion before the vote. It is very democratic and everyones input is heard as the membership group is not moderated.


Sue

 

[math ace]

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So, flgardengirl would roo #1 work with a sold black bcm with almost no coppering in the hackle area OR would it most likely just given the hen a bad case of mossiness without fixing the hackle coloring?

It is seeming like roo #1 is the first one to sign up for freezer camp . . .

Two candidates left . . .