Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Wynette]

x 2!!!

Heck, x 10!!!!

There is something to learn from ALL of them.

Wise words. And....QUINTUPLE ditto on Debbi's post!

 

[slick4591]

 In my experience this does not mean that the bird is blue....sometimes the shading on them will look blueish....that said....the only way a person will truly ever know if their bird is blue is to breed it to a genetically black bird and see if blue offspring pop up.

BTW...she's a cutie pie!

Thanks. I plan on hanging on to her and see how she turns out. Just thought she was different and wanted to post her so someone could give me some insight, which you did.

 

[Mac57t]

How well do Marans lay?
23 in the bator now.
I hatched 12 last week but some are a mix of easter egger or Jersey giant.
All are fathered by a BCM though.
Some have feathered leggs.

 

[Coop de Grille]

Quote: I bought 12 mixed eggs from someone local and they gave me 4 pure marans eggs. All the marans eggs hatched through the night or when I was at work so I don't know which ones are the pure breed ones. I have never had marans before. The white chick has feathered green legs, so I am assuming she is one of the EE's but I wanted to check just in case I'm wrong.

 

[DMRippy]

Quote:
Y'all need to quite taking it out to play with and then you might not lose it!

 

[DMRippy]

I got an egg today like Wynette's from one of my cuckoos. Do the eggs go though a couple of COLORING places. The egg was a nice uniform brown all over and then the DARK ink started and ran out half way. How did the WHOLE egg get a reg brown coating? You could even see where the ink started to SPIT the last drops of ink

 

[gilavina]

Evening everyone! Anyone else having one of those weeks where you can't quite seem to get the hang of things?

 

[muckmuck]

Hello All,
These four little Golden Cuckoo Marans were hatched last week, the first three look just like one I hatched a month ago and then theres number four. Is yellow a normal color for a GCM chick?

Thanks, Max

 

[gilavina]

I got an egg today like Wynette's from one of my cuckoos. Do the eggs go though a couple of COLORING places. The egg was a nice uniform brown all over and then the DARK ink started and ran out half way. How did the WHOLE egg get a reg brown coating? You could even see where the ink started to SPIT the last drops of ink

pic pretty please?!

 

[DMRippy]

Evening everyone! Anyone else having one of those weeks where you can't quite seem to get the hang of things?

I am just having one of those weeks in general

but what else is new.