Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[ruth]

Yes, they would be Splash Coppers if they have copper anywhere in them or their background.

Thanks Pink - has anyone ever posted any pics of a Splash Copper Marans? I've been gone for most of the year and there's just too many pages to scroll back through.

If anyone has some pics I'd love to see them.

 

[pinkchick]

Thanks Pink - has anyone ever posted any pics of a Splash Copper Marans? I've been gone for most of the year and there's just too many pages to scroll back through.

If anyone has some pics I'd love to see them.

Oh yes...quite a few actually and let me say this, the males are the ones you are usually going to see the copper on. I have only seen or been able to produce one Splash Copper female that has ever had copper show through on her and it was only one feather. I find it very hard to get the copper on the females, I think others do as well, but boy howdy give us a male and we can get copper on them.

Here is a male I had about 3 years ago, his name was Lincoln.



I should have kept him (he hatched from a very nice egg), but I kept his brother instead who was a beautiful Blue Copper that I used in the breeding pen for 2.5 years. Then silly me, I introduced some new birds from Florida that when crossed with my Blue Copper roo ending up producing carnation combs. Still test mating to see if I have eliminated it, but had to remove the Blue Copper from the program and all of the birds that I had shipped in from Florida. Sad I tell ya...and a long story.

I say if anyone ever sees a carnation comb in their flocks or their birds.....CULL the bird showing the fault and test mate, test mate, test mate everyone else to see who is a carrier and CULL. These combs are very hard to breed out and find the culprits...I have first hand knowledge and it's very disheartning.

Just in case anyone has missed these photos or discussions in the past 200 pages or so...and because we have lots of new folks joining the thread, I thought I would post these photos again just so that folks can familiarize themselves with what to look for as far as the carnation comb (or as I call them....side sprigs).
It can be seen as early as 3 weeks of age on the males and usually can't be seen on the females until they reach point of lay.
3 week old cockerel with the effected comb.


Here it is on a 6 week old cockerel.

 

[gilavina]

Morning

Ruth, the boy in my avatar is a splash copper, he doesn't have solid copper markings, but a decent amount. I will be using him this spring for the first time in breeding pens, so it should be interesting to see what he throws.

Kim, how are those babies doin?! Sounds like they were hatching right along as of yesterday.

 

[pinkchick]

Trying to upload photos of them now. They are doing great! Only the 5 hatched, but hey, I'll take 5 out of 7 and you will see why once I get a photo up.

 

[gilavina]

Trying to upload photos of them now. They are doing great! Only the 5 hatched, but hey, I'll take 5 out of 7 and you will see why once I get a photo up.

can't wait to see them!!

 

[gilavina]

Last night's poultry club meeting went well, elected all new officers and its official that I'm the show secretary. I'm looking forward to it. I know its tons of work, but grew up helping out and did it myself for a while and enjoyed it. I'm just not looking forward to the drama involved with the woman that was in the position before...

We're working to revitalize the club and try to repair some damage that was done with previous officers and are wanting to build a poultry club website. Is there anyone that has good suggestions for a preferrably free site builder that is reliable and easy to use? I want to see too if I can work to get info out there on the Marans for the people here and possibly see if might be able to put together a group of Marans to show!

 

[pinkchick]

Then take a look at where the little blue ended up after a scramble to duck under the others and hide. LOL!

 

[gilavina]

Then take a look at where the little blue ended up after a scramble to duck under the others and hide. LOL!

haha they are super cute....I wonder if he feels like the odd man out?

 

[pinkchick]

Congrats Vicki! I'm sure you will have a blast and things will be just fine.

 

[gilavina]

Congrats Vicki! I'm sure you will have a blast and things will be just fine.

Thanks Kim...just nervous about the people that weren't happy with things and people in place before. I'm hoping it can all get ironed out well.