Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[geebs]

It is posted at the front of the black copper thread... The white in the feathers on these birds eventually were black.. Photograph the same bird in a week and post it Sabella... and then again in two... Wynette did say to show her... It is how the black works on some bird/lines.

 

[Wynette]

I said what?

 

[geebs]

To show you.. that the white gets covered... if she photographs number 4 again we can see the changes as the black fills in.. then we have "shown you"....

I have seen this lots of time.

 

[Wynette]

Oh, okay. Yep - prove me wrong! I would love that. I hate to see disappointed peeps!

(I have a 3 year old hen that developed this as a pullet...and she still has it. If you'd like, I'll get some pics for comparison?)

 

[geebs]

Okay words were prove it.... (slippery brain)... my bad Same diff in my pea brain.

 

[Ivywoods]

Wynette- I have to tell you, I visited your website. My little boston terrier that always keeps track of my chicks was going nuts. He heard the little peeping noise when I would mouse over a subject. Admittedly, I started looking around the room thinking somehow a chick had gotten loose and was hiding behind the desk or something. My speakers are kind of tucked in behind stuff. It took me a minute to realize I was making the noise myself.

Sometimes I wonder about myself.

 

[Wynette]

geebsie, I did NOT say "prove it" - you know me better than that.

Ivy - BA HA HA! I love those little peeps! The lady that did my site made them for me...I was so stinking happy with them! HA! Glad you got a bit of a laugh over it! (I seriously need to update my site...)

 

[sabella]

Ivy,

I will keep tabs on her and keep photographing her.. I hope she grows out of it!!

 

[Wynette]

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Ditto!

 

[snowbird]

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I would like to comment on this bird also. If she is 20 weeks old and has all this white why in the world would any one even want to bred this female. I agree the hackle is lacking and has too much black in center of feather. Do you even know what the parents are and how they are colored.

I would rather have one good pair, than breed just to breed regardless of the outcome.