Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[BarnGoddess01]

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There is a Cuckoo working away in there right now and a pipped BCM. Hopefully, they'll make it out. It's still early on day 21 so I'm not losing hope yet!!!

(4 of the cuckoos looked good at lockdown. Was hard to see into the Black Coppers but there were a handful that looked like they had life in them so I should still get more hatching - I hope!)

 

[pinkchick]

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"Sapphire Precious" is my baby! I absolutely adore her ...

My mom shared her love of Siamese kitties with me.....especially the blues and I LOVE THE CHOCOLATES too!

 

[DMRippy]

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Hello DMRippy -Just for clarification because this may help you and/or others --- blue does not replace the black allele. Blues still carry 2 black alleles at the extension locus, they just also carry blue at a different location. Does that make sense? So your splashes? They still carry the base colors in addition to the 2 blue alleles....hence the differentiation between regular splash (black based) and Copper splash (birchen based - and by birchen, I'm talking about the allele that forms the gene, not the variety). So Blues do not have one black gene and one blue gene. Blues have 2 black alleles (E/E) and one blue allele (Bl/bl). Copper blues are birchen with gold plus one blue ( E^r/E^r, s+/s+, Bl/bl).

Blue is a dilution, black is a base color.

Barring is another story - a roo with only one barring allele will have thicker black than a roo with 2 - kind of like an incomplete dominant. One copy definitely shows, but the full effect is intensified by the second.


I hope I haven't muddied the waters or repeated some one else explaining this....I was looking to see if Geebs had been on lately (she never emails me anymore!) and I saw your post.

Thank you I did not know all that.

About the barring, one copy does more than just show thicker barring, they will have some solid color feathers too. My guy has several solid black feathers in his tail and some half barred and half black feathers on his wing feathers. They just don't look right. I saw a BR roo yesterday and he had tons of areas with white feathers, I remembered on the Rock thread someone posted a pic of a similar bird and they said it was a sex link too. If the barring looks abnormal and not consistent, it is PROBABLY a sex link and will not breed true.

 

[Mountain Mel 22]

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"Sapphire Precious" is my baby! I absolutely adore her ...

My mom shared her love of Siamese kitties with me.....especially the blues and I LOVE THE CHOCOLATES too!

Siamese cats.....a bunch of whinin', cryin', furball infested bird killers!

Boy, if I was going to listen to a bunch of whining and crying at all hours

I'd open a Day Care Center....it pays pretty good, so I hear!

(That oughta' ruffle some feathers!

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BRB...gotta put in a load of laundry & start my second pot of caffiene!

 

[pinkchick]

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My mom shared her love of Siamese kitties with me.....especially the blues and I LOVE THE CHOCOLATES too!

Siamese cats.....a bunch of whinin', cryin', furball infested bird killers!

Boy, if I was going to listen to a bunch of whining and crying at all hours

I'd open a Day Care Center....it pays pretty good, so I hear!

(That oughta' ruffle some feathers!

)

BRB...gotta put in a load of laundry & start my second pot of caffiene!

 

[aalbury]

You all move so fast!

Waving at Roberta, Clyde, and yer cutie patootie Jap Banty! I'll bring up the show reports next meeting!

Nice Barb!!! My daughter's black silkies beat the snot out of the Marans as chicks.....so I don't know if they all get picked on (!)

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The solid feathers may just be a result of a non-completely solid base. Getting 100% black birds is difficult which would be required for there to be black barring. The half black and half barred sounds interesting though! Extra melanizers possibly?

 

[Mountain Mel 22]

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Siamese cats.....a bunch of whinin', cryin', furball infested bird killers!

Boy, if I was going to listen to a bunch of whining and crying at all hours

I'd open a Day Care Center....it pays pretty good, so I hear!

(That oughta' ruffle some feathers!

)

BRB...gotta put in a load of laundry & start my second pot of caffiene!

Had that a - coming, didn't I?

 

[Mountain Mel 22]

This one will shock y'all....an actual comment about my Marans....

I think that this upcoming summer I will get rid of all my Marans.

The darn things won't lay any eggs during the winter.

Here I have 12 laying hens and I'm having to buy eggs to eat!

I'm thinking of switching to raising different varieties of quail & pheasants just to turn loose, and getting some Red Stars for egg-makers.

I would like one very large White Jersey Giant to free range...I'll name him Foghorn Leghorn. It would be real cool if someone could cross one with one of those Tamaru Longcrowers so he really had a voice! Now THAT would be cool!

 

[stoopid]

What kind of coffee are you drinkin?

 

[pinkchick]

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Had that a - coming, didn't I?