Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Harris5]

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Is that a little splash baby? Please excuse me if you have answered that, sometimes I have troubles keeping up with this thread and I can miss alot of posts. Every couple of days I find myself re-reading about the last 10 pages to try and keep everything straight and I always find something I missed the first 12 times I read it and I always manage to miss something else.

Yep!! It is my first splash baby!

 

[pinkchick]

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Is that a little splash baby? Please excuse me if you have answered that, sometimes I have troubles keeping up with this thread and I can miss alot of posts. Every couple of days I find myself re-reading about the last 10 pages to try and keep everything straight and I always find something I missed the first 12 times I read it and I always manage to miss something else.

Yep!! It is my first splash baby!

them Splash babies!!!!!!

 

[gilavina]

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Very exciting!! I hope your hatch goes well.

I am dying to get some Barnevelders...but of course I am drawn to the silver ones that are not available here.

Thanks! I have a baby now, I think it was one of Bill's girls' eggs. Not sure can't see it clearly. Later when I'm not suppose to I will reach in and grab it and the shell to clarify for recording.

I hear ya about the Barnies.....but I'm going to mess around with Blue with them.

Should have some BLRW eggs coming from some VERY BEAUTIFUL stock from cpartist, her stock came from Marquisella's BLRW I believe.......

stunning I tell ya!!!!! Really hoping for a splash from them, going to go hog wild with blue and Barnies!

cpartist (

to her) is also sending some eggs from her most BEAUTIFUL Blue Copper hen that lays the superest ooberest darkest prettiest eggs I think I've ever seen from a Blue, aside from Marquisella's blue girls eggs and flgardens. WOW!!!! Talk about DROOLING!!!!!! If I get any girls from those eggs they are going to be crossed with Gnarles. I bet we get something very GNARLY COOL from that cross. I can hardly wait.

Sounds like you have a fun project you are getting started on! On the double lacing with the blue, what color would be with the blue for the lacing part? Sounds like they will be truly gorgeous!! And I think I might be in trouble....I must not look at any pics of them or I'll have yet another breed and color variety I just 'caaan't' live with out. Hahaha

I bet the cross of some of cpartist's girl's onto Gnarles will be very beautiful!!

Do you ever have a hard time waiting for the next generation of chicks to mature so you can set up your next crosses and breeding pens? I know I do.... maybe its because I feel like I have a very long way to go...who knows.

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[pinkchick]

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Thanks! I have a baby now, I think it was one of Bill's girls' eggs. Not sure can't see it clearly. Later when I'm not suppose to I will reach in and grab it and the shell to clarify for recording.

I hear ya about the Barnies.....but I'm going to mess around with Blue with them.

Should have some BLRW eggs coming from some VERY BEAUTIFUL stock from cpartist, her stock came from Marquisella's BLRW I believe.......

stunning I tell ya!!!!! Really hoping for a splash from them, going to go hog wild with blue and Barnies!

cpartist (

to her) is also sending some eggs from her most BEAUTIFUL Blue Copper hen that lays the superest ooberest darkest prettiest eggs I think I've ever seen from a Blue, aside from Marquisella's blue girls eggs and flgardens. WOW!!!! Talk about DROOLING!!!!!! If I get any girls from those eggs they are going to be crossed with Gnarles. I bet we get something very GNARLY COOL from that cross. I can hardly wait.

Sounds like you have a fun project you are getting started on! On the double lacing with the blue, what color would be with the blue for the lacing part? Sounds like they will be truly gorgeous!! And I think I might be in trouble....I must not look at any pics of them or I'll have yet another breed and color variety I just 'caaan't' live with out. Hahaha

That pic cpartist posted of her girls, especially the blues were really striking indeed. And I bet the cross of some of her girls onto Gnarles will be very beautiful!!

Do you ever have a hard time waiting for the next generation of chicks to mature so you can set up your next crosses and breeding pens? I know I do.... maybe its because I feel like I have a very long way to go...who knows.

YES!!!!!! I go to bed at night thinking about which bird I can cross here, or which bird I can cross there.
I pick them pretty easily at an early age just by the body, comb, eye color, disposition, etc. of the birds. I usually let color correction guide me to pairing after I have grown out the first offspring of certain crosses and matings and I have seen their egg color. I want to see the foundation first and alot of this we can pick up just watching them mature. I think the only time I would let color be my first priority is if something horrible happened to one of my roosters, then if I had bird that was the very least the color I wanted and had other things not so desirable about them....I would use them just to hopefully get the color back and work my way back from there and build the barn, but this would be a worse case scenario and a very long and hard road that I don't even want to think about.
I think I have the most fun with the breeding and pairings and seeing what can be created in both bird and egg color....even if it is just a smidge of improvement or even if it is a total disaster. If it's a disaster I simply just stop doing that and move on to a new pairing, if it's good I usually stick with it and see what my odds are going to be like.....can I do it again???

As for the Barnie....tls_ranch has been working on her blue laced Barnies for a couple of years and she also started with BLRW...if you pop over to the Barnevelder breeders lets stick together thread....she has some of her birds posted there with in the last 10 or 15 pages. They are yummy! I think she also has some on her page...can't remember.

So many pages, so much BYC and not enough time to look at it all!!!

 

[Mountain Mel]

So Pinkchick -- please refresh my memory -- what do we have in this hatch that is now "in pip"?

OMG!!! It's almost 0900.....I better go feed my critters!

 

[pinkchick]

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2 chicks have hatched and 1 more Black Copper egg has pipped. Still 3 more in there and I can't see if they have done anything.

 

[cpartist]

Wrapping those eggs up tonight Pink

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So excited to be sharing them with you. My two BRLW roos came from a breeder in GA who
has Foley/Marquisella stock. They are HUGE. I think Sue has some of the nicest BLR's on the planet!
My girl's are Foley/Penny stock from McSpin in New York. Love them....can't go wrong with Foley Wy's.
I am hugely excited to be working with them and have lots of chicks growing out and eggs in the bator.

After braggin' on my original Blue Copper girls productivity, she has only laid one egg since
Thursday. Hopefully she'll lay one today. You'll be getting some of her daughters though...
And maybe one or two of my ONE productive Wellie girl's

 

[pinkchick]

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The nice thing about chickens......is they will eventually give us another egg or 2. We can always try for those again later.

 

[Mountain Mel]

Brrrr.....it's snowing here this morning!

All the critters are now happily fed & watered. Boy, the cows sure eat a lot more hay when the ground is snow covered and they can't get to the grass. Next winter I will have heaters on my chicken waterers. I just don't like the idea of any of the critters possibly not having access to fresh, clean water 24/7.
Marans, Marans, Marans.....does anyone ever watch the show "Hoarders"? There was an episode on last night about a "Chicken Hoarder".

 

[gilavina]

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Good good...I'm glad..they really are beautiful girls and the shade of blue on them is one of my favs!!