Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Keara]

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It was nice to meet a fellow marans chicken person, especially one so close by. And I am very glad those 5 birds found a good home. I do not know the background of these 5 birds.... I bought them in Feb from someone else who had hatched them from eggs from another person.... you get the idea. All I know is they have grown to a really good size and I am looking forward to eating the 2 roosters I kept from the batch!

-Keara

 

[Keara]

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Soo glad to hear this I was thinking about your birds all weekend, while I was watching my chicks hatch. I was so worried for your babies. Since they are such travelers I think they should be called Jason and the Argonauts!

 

[Noymira]

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It was nice to meet a fellow marans chicken person, especially one so close by. And I am very glad those 5 birds found a good home. I do not know the background of these 5 birds.... I bought them in Feb from someone else who had hatched them from eggs from another person.... you get the idea. All I know is they have grown to a really good size and I am looking forward to eating the 2 roosters I kept from the batch!

-Keara

Thought you might pop up here! When I post pics I was going to add that these were not of you're breeding, just so no one took them as representative of your birds. You have some real beauties there! And I believe you do have some chicks for sale, right?

They are doing well, very pretty girls. (I am going to call them that unless they tell/show me otherwise!) I love the feathers on the legs, thank you for helping us build our flock!

 

[Keara]

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It was nice to meet a fellow marans chicken person, especially one so close by. And I am very glad those 5 birds found a good home. I do not know the background of these 5 birds.... I bought them in Feb from someone else who had hatched them from eggs from another person.... you get the idea. All I know is they have grown to a really good size and I am looking forward to eating the 2 roosters I kept from the batch!

-Keara

Thought you might pop up here! When I post pics I was going to add that these were not of you're breeding, just so no one took them as representative of your birds. You have some real beauties there! And I believe you do have some chicks for sale, right?

They are doing well, very pretty girls. (I am going to call them that unless they tell/show me otherwise!) I love the feathers on the legs, thank you for helping us build our flock!

Glad to hear the girls are doing well.

Honestly if I did not have soo many female BCM's that I like already I would have kept those girls too... they grew really nice and are large! I just have no idea the egg color they came from, or what the parents looked like.

And yes I am hatching as we speak. When I left this morning I had 11 hatched from 20 eggs... all from my own rooster and hens.

 

[Debbi]

Ok, all of you with Sportsman or Dickey's incubators, here's a question. Sorry if this is a double post, I started a thread in the incubating section, but I wonder if the advice applies to Marans eggs as well. Advice was given in the cabinet models to leave the humidity at 55% for the entire incubation and hatch period?? Another says 60-65% for the whole thing, but none are Marans. Pink, Don, I know you both have one, is this what you guys do? Sure don't want to put out the money if I'm still gonna screw up!

 

[snowbird]

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Debbi, I have a room full of the sportsmans and here is what I do. 40-45 until last three days 55-60. Also I had never heard of lock down until coming on BYC and have been using the sportsman 35-40 year or around there. I open the incubator anytime I feel like and do whatever I would like. My eggs all hatch at about the same time frame. Shipped eggs will take a little longer though.

 

[syble]

a question for breeding consideration (to the standard of course

) when selecting your breeders, how much emphasis would you place on first generation feather leg? I have a trio of feather legged splash and a quad of feather legged blues... there are an additional clean legged pullet (i think) of both colors, are they worth keeping, or would i be better off just breeding the feather legged birds and keeping back some of their offspring in the next year? Similarly there is a black clean legged roo (only black roo) i had hoped for a black feather legged roo to breed with all the splash girls, would he still be a decent option or would i be better off waiting again for a better bird instead of settling.
Thanks
sib

 

[Hens and Roos]

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Sending

to both of you!

 

[syble]

also what is with this comb?


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hes the only one in any of my birds to have one like it. the spikes are just rounded over nubins, but the comb itself is bigger then any of the others?
Thanks
sib

 

[math ace]

Debbi,

Sorry about your hatch. . .

When my dad went psycho and destroyed my incubator - - - it was a hatch like that, all signs indicating an excellent hatch!

Words can not fix the ache in your heart knowing that life was so close and then wiped away

Only time can dull the sorrow