Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[StevenW.]

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Not fair! I declare war over trying to get them chicks!

They are adorable! Congrats!

 

[geebs]

I know nothing about the stock in the US except that some are said to have blue legs..hmmmm I am guessing I know why... he he... In the UK they are born yellow I think... Please correct me If I am wrong.. they are kinda hard to come by.... so not alot of pix out there.

 

[PHarris985]

here is one of my white marans up close

 

[PHarris985]

Here's a closeup of one of the white marans with feathers on the legs.

 

[geebs]

The first one has the down color of a male golden Cuckoo. the second one looks to be the color of blue copper... It will be VERY interesting to watch these mature>>> WOW thanks.. Can you go post on the Cuckoo/white thread... I am hoping to have more ppl post pix of the white and get this party started...

thanks for the pix.. AWESOME (I could just squeeze em)

 

[flgardengirl]

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I've never seen white chicks so I have no clue what color they are. Whatever yours are, they are cute!

Here's a pic of my 2 newest Birchens. One blue, one black. Not sure on the sexes yet but I think the blue one looks male. They have clean legs.
I have an older blue birchen girl (pretty sure its a girl) that I will get a pic of tomorrow.

 

[KlaHaYa Gardens]

I hatched three blue Marans last night.

Tee hee hee. Their shanks are lightly feathered, nothing impressive, but the blue is beautiful! More to hatch shortly . . .

I was playing and had my blue splash over some cuckoos and made blue! See, blue is NOT a primary color!

*Runs back out of the over-sized--no, monstrous-sized Marans thread-that-needs-to-be-split before I get lost.*

 

[geebs]

Soooo cute all these peeps...

I think those birchens are to die for... As are the whites...

I am going to vote girls on both.. (maybe that is wishful thinking)

Tonight was sooo cute... my bantams were fighting over a nightcrawler..It is thier first week on green grass out of brooding cages so it was a real treat to have them running around finding all kinds of new things.. THe worm fight went on for 20 minutes... Winner takes all... The smallest of the bantams finally ran into the road and gobbled it...

 

[flgardengirl]

Haha I can just hear them screeching and peeping. That noise they make when they are little and first find a treat and run around with it , trying to get the others to chase it, is soooo funny.

 

[gilavina]

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I've never seen white chicks so I have no clue what color they are. Whatever yours are, they are cute!

Here's a pic of my 2 newest Birchens. One blue, one black. Not sure on the sexes yet but I think the blue one looks male. They have clean legs.
I have an older blue birchen girl (pretty sure its a girl) that I will get a pic of tomorrow.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/45258_birchens2.jpg

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/45258_birchens1.jpg

Hey Lenette,

Those chickers are looking good! I'm sure hoping you will get two pullets and a cockerel to get you going!

I was going through my chicks and switching out bands for larger ones since they grow so quickly...and I found some wonderful surprises! I have been pretty sick for the last week and so while my family was in town visiting they were nice enough to do chores and handle all that for me. Today is the first day I've felt half way alive, so its the first I've seen my chicks in about a week. I am happy to say that I found some birchen chicks starting to pop up. When I had lost my black birchen boy earlier this spring I was starting to think I hadn't gathered any eggs from the girls he was with that he was responsible for. But, I found 4 just in two of the groups I looked at. I'm excited. I still have my blue birchen boy, so I will still have some hatching out soon, but I am just beyond thrilled that my black birchen boy gave me some chicks before he died. Ohh, and its official that while I was sick my first sussex chicks colored up...and I have some coronations!!! I'm so excited.
I'll have to see if I can find some time to get some updated pics of my chicks soon.

I also have that hatch with all my lovely eggs I'm dying over coming up. Their hatch date is this tuesday! Out of 24 blue birchen shipped eggs I've got 19 that are looking really good, those 12 Lavender Silver Sussex eggs, I have 9 that look really good, and my own blue birchen pen's eggs, my blues eggs, and some blue wyandottes. I'm pretty excited...I'm going to be drowning in a sea of blues! What a lovely way to go!