Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[gilavina]

mornin

sounds like we're supposed to get some snow today....but am still gonna try for some new pics if possible.

 

[slick4591]

Good morning everyone!

 

[gilavina]

Good morning everyone!

 

[Hens and Roos]

Just looked at my notes and our 4 Cuckoo Marans girls are 22 weeks and 18 weeks old so pretty soon we should be seeing some eggs!

Morning everyone

Sounds like we are getting more snow later tonight and into tomorrow- couple of inches again

 

[pinkchick]

So many things I want to respond to, but responding just isn't as easy as it once was......I try several times to post and nothing happens. I'm becoming a little aggitated and distant from the forum because of this inability to work with it smoothly.

Slick~ I would love to comment on your boys but it takes soooooo long to open the pages...will tell you that I really really really like your blue boy (of course the blue one is one of them that opened up fairly quickly for me to see

). I did see a couple of others, but can't remember the numbers of them to comment and going back in the thread to read it takes the longest of all....that and every time I try to post or submit the sreen just stays where it is and does nothing, like the submit buttom doesn't work. ARGH!


Wanted to WELCOME the New Marans Peeps to the forum!

Zio~ Definitely get in touch on your way through!

Donna~ 16 lovely eggies are sittin' here patiently waiting to be wrapped tonight and mailed tomorrow.

I know there is more folks I wanted to respond to but I have since fogotten what it was and now I don't have the time to go back in the thread and re-read. FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!!!!!!!!!! Where's the WHINER emoticon Math Ace???????

 

[pinkchick]

RIDICULOUS!!!!!!! I first started trying to post that response 1 hour and 13 minutes ago!

 

[kefiren]

Hey, I'm just starting out with Marans and I have a few questions. First, how do Americans, in general, pronounce Marans? Is it maaRON as your high school french teacher might point out, or MAARAANZ as we might sound it out as Americans?

My first BCM's are approaching adulthood, and I want to say their personality is unlike any other chickens I own. So so still and quiet. Even the cockerel's crows are quiet. They really do have a different personality. Wow, I picked up one rooster and slaughtered him poor guy and he didn't fight, didn't peep, just said sort of hey, alright, I'll be dinner--Whatever! Masterful breeding of personality if what you want is calm stoicism. Never try to jump the fence...don't cause trouble with the other hens...

Anyways, when are they going to lay? I've been getting an egg a day for over a month from the Leghorns I raised with them! 25.5 weeks, on the edge of my seat. I can't stand it another minute.

Renee

 

[DMRippy]

Donna~ 16 lovely eggies are sittin' here patiently waiting to be wrapped tonight and mailed tomorrow.

 

[DMRippy]

Hey, I'm just starting out with Marans and I have a few questions. First, how do Americans, in general, pronounce Marans? Is it maaRON as your high school french teacher might point out, or MAARAANZ as we might sound it out as Americans?

My first BCM's are approaching adulthood, and I want to say their personality is unlike any other chickens I own. So so still and quiet. Even the cockerel's crows are quiet. They really do have a different personality. Wow, I picked up one rooster and slaughtered him poor guy and he didn't fight, didn't peep, just said sort of hey, alright, I'll be dinner--Whatever! Masterful breeding of personality if what you want is calm stoicism. Never try to jump the fence...don't cause trouble with the other hens...

Anyways, when are they going to lay? I've been getting an egg a day for over a month from the Leghorns I raised with them! 25.5 weeks, on the edge of my seat. I can't stand it another minute.

Renee

I would like to know this too.... I say it the southern way WRONG I am sure.... I say it like you would say Mare like a horse.... I am sure it is said like CataMARAN I know you don't pronounce the s.

 

[slick4591]

Pink, I remember those days.

Sorry you gotta go through all that, but don't worry about my end of it, there's plenty of opinions around that I trust. Thanks for your opinion on the blue boy and thanks to everyone else that has been able to see and comment.