Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[marquisella]

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Beautiful roo! Is the copper in the splash "normal" or "expected"? I just got my first splash marans and I dont know if they will or should have copper hackles or not? Do your splash hens end up with copper hackles, too?

I got the splash because he was a mistake. She wanted only a splash and ended up with a copper splash from some ordered eggs. I don't have any hens yet

so stay tuned. These are my first babies so I don't know much but there are plenty here to help!

Almost always, "splash" roosters from blue coppers will have copper eventually. The hens will not not have the copper if they are splash because they can only show 1 color gene, where as the roosters can show 2.
That is what I understand. That is why it is so hard to get a true blue rooster without any copper but you will see all blue hens without copper. Either they are haveing their copper covered by melanization, or they are truly just blue. In 4 years of breeding blue coppers, I have never gotten a "blue" rooster, they always show copper eventually, or sometimes they look like they are going to be blue Birchen, but the hackle feathers are cream colored instead of silvery white. That shows that the rooster has both gold & silver genes.
If I'm wrong, I hope someone will jump in here...

 

[flgardengirl]

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That last egg is really cool. Looks like desert colors.


I haven't crossed 2 extremely dark bluish black coppers together because the females don't typically turn out as dark as the males. They seem to get that nice dark blue with the lacing but not the blackish blue where you can't see the lacing like some of the male blue coppers get. I don't know if I've seen any females that darkish blue black that were actually blue and not black. I hope someone has one and can post a pic.

I crossed a really dark blackish blue copper male to a black copper female and got dark blue males and blue cpr. females with good lacing and of course some black coppers too. Oftentimes it seem like the dark blue females that have good lacing don't have as good of coppering as the lighter blue ones for some reason.

I have one splash male that is from bl coppers. He is the lightest blue, almost between splash and blue and his hackles/saddles are a lemony blonde not copper. I kept him because he looks cool although he is a mess now since he is in the bachelor pen because I don't really have anything to use him for at the moment lol.

 

[Debbi]

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That last egg is really cool. Looks like desert colors.


I haven't crossed 2 extremely dark bluish black coppers together because the females don't typically turn out as dark as the males. They seem to get that nice dark blue with the lacing but not the blackish blue where you can't see the lacing like some of the male blue coppers get. I don't know if I've seen any females that darkish blue black that were actually blue and not black. I hope someone has one and can post a pic.

I crossed a really dark blackish blue copper male to a black copper female and got dark blue males and blue cpr. females with good lacing and of course some black coppers too. Oftentimes it seem like the dark blue females that have good lacing don't have as good of coppering as the lighter blue ones for some reason.

I have one splash male that is from bl coppers. He has the lightest blue almost between splash and blue and his hackles/saddles are a lemony blonde not copper. I kept him because he looks cool although he is a mess now since he is in the bachelor pen because I don't really have anything to use him for at the moment lol.

I bet that Lemony Splash is pretty! Bet that type would add some nice coppering to my dark girls. Going for Blue Coppers here, so a Splash roo is going to be the quickest route to that end. After the roo fiasco I had this morning, I can't believe I'm even thinking of another roo!

They were a wild bunch this morning, and especially hormonal! All the girls opted to stay in the run with Clyde after their little show of machismo! Got to love those smart girls.

 

[pinkchick]

Ivy~ Glad your little guy is feeling better.

DMRippy~ Are both boys from Raven from eggs that she hatched out from me?

 

[Raven1]

No just the Blue Copper guy!

 

[pinkchick]

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Thank you Raven! I was wondering because the Splash guy didn't look familiar to me.....lovely boys they are!!!!

 

[Raven1]

Nope did not get any Splash out of your eggs just 2 very pretty Blue Copper roos and 1 each Blue and Black pullets. I could not keep both boys so when Donna ask about them I was very pleased to rehome to her. She will spoil them as bad as any of us would

 

[DMRippy]

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You bet...They will be getting a good amount of cherry tomatoes today!!! and cucumbers and zucchini too!!! My son's girlfriend came to the coop the other day and all the chickens came running over and she could not believe it, I told her they were looking for treats

she said you don't spoil them do you? Not me

 

[DMRippy]

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Thank you Raven! I was wondering because the Splash guy didn't look familiar to me.....lovely boys they are!!!!

Raven done good raisin' these guys!

 

[Debbi]

I was just surfing through Ebay, and came upon this auction!

Not only are the Black Cooper Mariains spelled wrong, but I thought I recognized the picture of the roo they claim is theirs. THE ROO IS FROM BEV DAVIS' SITE! I alerted Bev to the fact, so I guess it's up to her to call them on it. Sheesh, people are such thieves. Do a search for Item Number: 150636336802 . They have not one, but two auctions of Mariains right now, and also "Showgirls Sickles", so I highly doubt they are actually theirs either! Buyers Beware!!!