Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[SuperPeacockman]

Okay this may sound like a stupid question but why does everyone obsess with the French standard not the English one? I am not saying it is good or bad but I just want to know why everyone likes the French standard. What makes them better?

 

[flgardengirl]

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Try putting an old fashion match, like the matchbook kind, in each hole for the peppers. The one year I did that, I had tons of peppers, the next year I forgot, and not one.
Sue

really? do you know what makes the matches effective?

I believe its the phosphorus in the matches that works. You can also use bonemeal. It also works for tomatoes too. I've never had trouble growing peppers or tomatoes. My maters didn't do too well last year here but I was rolling in peppers lol. I am still getting used to growing things in FL. Every place is different.
My family likes spicy foods so I grow all kinds of peppers (hybrids and hierlooms). I have grown the ghost peppers the last two years for dh who likes to burn his tongue off...I'd rather taste my food and will stick to jalepenos or a milder habanero lol. We grew some purple jalepenos last year that were really hot...hotter than the green. My son, who likes to cook, stuffs them with cream cheese and bakes or deep frys them.
Bell peppers grow the same as the hot ones but don't necessarily have to have a hot dry enviornment.
Hot peppers in genereal, like a hot dry enviornment with a long growing season. So if you can start your seeds really early and keep the foilage dry it helps. Water with a drip hose. We had a long hot dry summer here last year. My peppers seem to really get going toward the end of the summer even though I start them early here.
If you live in a cold wet area possibly keep them in a greenhouse but keep good air circulation.

 

[flgardengirl]

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It is really just a matter of preference. Until we have American Standards for all the varieties people just kinda breed toward thier preference.

 

[3riverschick]

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Hi,
Because France is the country of breed origin. France Club standard explicitly demands feathered shanks and legs. Unfeathered (clean)shanks/feet are a DQ in the French Standard. The English yard their birds instead of pasture raising like the French. So the English bred the feathers out of the shanks/feet for a more sanitary bird i the yard.( in their point of view).
So to honor the French origin of the bird and keep the bird closest to its original Standard, we breed towards the French Standard. Fetahers can be added to the shanks/feet of an English Marans in one generation. Then it is a French Marans. Not a problem.

Best Regards,
Karen (western PA)

 

[Ivywoods]

The proposed standard for the APA for black copper marans in the U.S. specifies feathered legs and outer toe. I would be willing to bet that as other varieties are accepted to the standard, that it will include feathering on them as well.

 

[CrestedGirl]

Here is a pic of our 4 new Maran babies. Two of them are blue, one is splash and the other, we think, is a black copper

 

[Bravo]

So this little BCM hatched today and the outtter two toes on both feet are fused together. Any idea on what causes this? I've never seen it before.

What is the LT prognosis for a (non breeding) bird with this kind of deformity? It it's a cockerel its fate is sealed. Thanks for the help.

 

[syble]

finally my eggs have come! so excited

been a long road but i finally have 16 blue marans eggs in the incubator, hopefully i can get a few nice blues out of them

now to wait

 

[syble]

i believe i have heard that that happens some times with the feather footed gene, if you catch it right away i believe people cut them apart and bandage them. then the chick heals and lives a natural long term life... will also give you a chance to splint those toes straight.
Good luck
Sib

 

[Bravo]

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Thank you! Do you know the name of the condition? I'd like to google it and if possible operate tonight.

It's only a few hrs old.