Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[gilavina]

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I would be highly interested in his breeding process for determining who is who in the ratio of chicks. If there is a possible way of knowing for sure who carries the normal genes I would think it would all be in test mating, no? Anyways..Keep me informed ma'am..I lurk over at that forum but am too chicken to sign up cause...I am not good with the technical speak haha

He did not determine the ratio of chicks......I used that as an example from some information I got off line about autosomal recessive and its inheritance.

Ahhh...I sees! I must have been reading too fast haha. I have to run now, but I'm really curious about all this. I love science when its practical stuff like this!

 

[rsquared]

Mornin Marans folks

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[Debbi]

Ok, now explain this. Why are some Carnations smaller than others?? JR's comb is pretty compared to Muttley's! Would JR's be one recessive and one defective? If Muttley has two defective genes at play, is this the difference in the size and form of the comb?? Or, is it because Muttley got 2 defective genes from both parents? I don't see that as being the case. The dad had a single comb, so let's assume he had a recessive gene. The mom has a Carnation, so she had the 2 defective genes already present in her? Now I'm starting to feel like a genetic idiot!

 

[BirdMan32]

Greetings all,

I have a rooster that looks like a copper marans but it has yellow featherless legs and is very agressive. I'm using am iPod touch & not quite sure how to post pics using it. From the description, can someone tell me if it is in fact one? Thanks!

 

[Debbi]

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Marans do not have yellow legs. He may be a cross? Marans roos can be very aggressive towards people, ask me how I know! Pics would be helpful, but if he is supposed to be a Black Copper Marans, or any color of Marans, he wouldn't have yellow legs.

 

[Debbi]

Ok, here is a picture that I can see in my mind without using the genetic terms! Use this to see what I'm talking about here. Correct me if I'm still seeing this wrong!! Sorry for the Sire/Dam scene, my brain is still hung in the dog world!

= normal gene

= defective recessive gene

Two genes come from EACH parent. So here is what I am seeing here with my birds:

Frist breeding: Sire =

Dam 1=

, Dam 2 =

, Dam 3 =

Results: all 4 chicks hatched had carnation combs,

KEY: Sire had normal single comb, as did Dams 1 & 2. Dam 3 has a Carnation comb

 

[Christie Rhae]

Here are my babies!!! I hatched 4 black coppers, 1 blue copper and one wheaten! 6 chicks is super awesome hatch rate for shipped eggs for me (2 dz eggs)
One started pipping on day 20. By the next morning 1 had 2 chicks. I had to go to work and when I got home that night there was 5 total. I checked through the window and no more pips so I snuck the 5 chicks out and put them in the brooder thinking that was my total. I left the incubator on and running of course for stragglers and guess what... my lil blue copper hatched some time in the middle of the night! yay!! Blue copper is the color I really want so I am super excited! Here is an iphone snapshot. I will take more pics later when they fluff up a little better.

 

[Debbi]

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Congrats Christie!!! Keep the bator going, I've had stragglers hatch on day 25!!!

 

[SD_Paulo]

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[Hens and Roos]

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yes lots of note taking, wondering if you could use some food coloring dye- a different color of each hen so when they laid their egg a stripe of color would end up marking the eggs- that way you could house the rooster with 3 girls at a time

keeping a key of what color dye went with what hen number or color band.