Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Casey76]

Hello everyone

I too am a Marans fan, and I'm a member of the Marans Club de France.

At the moment I only have two pullets, both of uncertain heritage, after the loss of my (quite) nice CB boy... here he is at about 18 weeks and just finding his voice:

Unfortunately about 2 weeks after this photos was taken he was killed by a marten, so I never got to have any of his babies

I currently have quite a lot of feelers out looking for White, Silver Black and Silver Blue hatching eggs here in France. Now I'm just waiting for responses with baited breath!

 

[Debbi]

Bonjour Casey, welcome to the thread! So sorry for your loss, he was quite a lovely boy! Please feel free to post more pictures of your flock, we all love pics here!

 

[geebs]

OMGosh what a nice speciment.... SOoooooo sorry for you loss.. It is easier if you didn't have big plans... Casey was a LOOKER!!!!

Wish you were closer... I would send pity eggs.

Do you speak French Casey???

 

[Wynette]

Casey, that boy was GORGEOUS! DROP DEAD! I'm so sorry you lost him - welcome to the Marans thread!

 

[geebs]

uh oh ya.... WELOME... Hugging before I even say "hi"... how rude!!!

 

[onthespot]

wow! that was a NICE young roo!!!! So sorry for your loss, and welcome to byc.

 

[Casey76]

Thanks everyone. I was pretty gutted, especially as I found him with only his head missing (waste of good meat for any predator!) He was actually the reason I got involved with Marans in teh first place because he was so typey (to French standard) His colouring wasn't gret, but he was still only a baby.

I live in the Alsace, France, and CB Marans are a dime a dozen, as it were - though a lot of the time the egg colour is a lot to be desired, and probably only makes a 3 on the official colour chart.

I have a wheaten pullet (with clean mis coloured legs

) who has only just come into lay (her eggs are about a 4, which isn't too bad as I think she may even be a cross breed), and I have a black pullet who is yet to come into lay, though I'm expecting it any day now (and have been for weeks!) She came out of a very nice coloured shell (about a 6) so I have high hopes for her eggs. Of course I'm missing a cock at the moment, but I'm going to all the shows I can looking for either eggs or some new blood to brink back to my garden.

I have to admit that my French isn't that great, but it is well enough to get by on the MCF forum (with a little grammatical help form google

)

Thanks for the welcome!

 

[geebs]

Wow can you post his picture on my thread??? He is such a nice example.. Geez and to think ya all have them just lying around (me picturing them falling from the sky

)


https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5571550#p5571550

I would love ppl to see him.. Wow... good luck in your search.. Please take us with you and you hunt...Whereabouts in France are you???

 

[Casey76]

I'm in the Alsace, and right in the 3 frontier région on the border between France, Germany and Switzerland. My village is both 20 mins by car from Germany and 20 mins from Switzerland. It is a beautiful region, this is what I have on my doorstep:

 

[MaransMomma]

Welcome!

Beautiful scenery! Are you riding that horse or is it pulling a cart?

My son was in France for about 6 months and absolutely loved it!

Sorry for the loss of your roo~he was very handsome!