Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[desertmarcy]

I agree with Kim that it does look like your male might have a cinnamon wing triangle. However, his legs do not look as light as a wheaten's should from the front...so maybe a mix of BL copper and Wheaten? His chest has a little too much color but he is a handsome looking fellow otherwise. His tail angle in the 3rd pic looks nice and so does the comb and shank/outer toe feathering.
Beautiful hen you have there.

I think I need to take him off that perch and get some sideways pics. I couldn't really get good side pics of him in that pen and the way the perch angle is to the door, he can't stand sideways to the door for pics.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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Not that I'm any kind of expert but to me he kind of looks like he might be a fence sitter. Not really Blue Copper but not quite Blue Wheaten either. Perhaps he's a mix? From all the reading I've been doing, maybe with all that colour, he's a eWh base? He might be fun to work with with different girls (Black copper, Blue copper, Wheaten) to see what he throws????

 

[Christie Rhae]

oh my goodness I just cannot keep up. Gonna skip ahead about 5 pages..lol

I have been so busy! My garden is growing like crazy! I love it. Corn is 3 inches tall and my tomato plants are up to my waist! If they keep growing I don't know how I am gonna harvest tomatoes. Maybe I can crawl under. lol

My oldest daughter is graduating college today! Cannot believe it. Where did the time go? Of course I have plenty more kids where she came from..lol My 4 year old girl is sitting next to me so no time for empty nest syndrome!

I separated my marans chicks today. They are about 2 1/2 months old now (my shipped chicks) and so far I think I only made one wrong gender guess back at 3 weeks old. I thought I had 13 boys and 5 girls but...whoohoo 11 boys and 6 girls.

I can already see some culls but will let them get a little fatter before...ya know..

I now have all the cockerels (including 3 EE's that are looking boyish) in a pen and pretty soon will take the pullets out of my chick pen and put them into a pullet pen. I need to bump some older pullets up to layer pen before I do that. I like the idea of growing boys and girls up separately. Like a boys or girls only school. Gives them time to mature without all the hormones. lol

Can you make out the two in the back having a little flared hackle stare down? lol...cute.


Cant believe these are the same chicks just a couple months ago! Man they grow fast!

 

[rirbrahma]

Wow! They are big! Haha I'm glad the numbers are better!!

 

[gilavina]

Would'ja just look at the street sweeper feet on that baby girl !!!! Love her! They all look really good. I wonder if you could use the pure black girls for a black marans project if they don't develop any silver on their hackles? They are silver based soooo....I would think so.

I was thinkin about doing that here a while back. My only problem is that I would have to find a pure black or blue roo. I don't have my black roo anymore, lost him over a year ago now.... so, if you know of someone that has the pures...then I'd be happy to work with them!

 

[blkwdw]

Looks like you may have gotten a "Sport" White! Lucky you!

Sorry to be so ignorant, but whats a sport white?

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: Odd colors that POP up unexpectedly. It can be a good thing.... White marans are hard to come by.

 

[chickenlisa]

Here are some new photos of my BCM and BBS Marans..they're 7 and 8 weeks old now. I have 32 in all, ( 2 of them being OE chicks.) The all black one with cheek poofs is one of the OE and there's a beautiful blue pullet OE too. I think they're both girls.

I know it's too soon to see who looks great or bad, but I'm happy to see some copper showing up on them, and some of the eyes already looking oranger...Lots of legs have nice feathers on the outsides and some only sparse feathering. I'll have way too many roos to keep, I do know that.

 

[Hens and Roos]

They were hatched on Easter so around 4 weeks and they were broody hatched. I do not have a whole lot of space for them. I was going to sell at least 2 of them when I knew for sure which were roosters and which were hens.

I hear you on spare space... we are growing up a bunch of chicks that my DD hatched out to pick from for 4-H. So at this point mamma hen isn't hanging with them anymore? Looking at the pictures- the 2nd one looks to be male as it has the wider barring of white. The 1st one does have what appears to be comb and wattles coming in. I have 3 cuckoo chicks just 2 weeks older(around 6 weeks) and they aren't showing any comb/wattle development-I am guessing them to be pullets

, 2 are splash so pattern is hard to see on them. These are the 3 that survived from the cocci that took my other 7 cuckoo chicks. Good luck with them!

 

[ronott1]

I have some 6 week old FBCM. These seem harder than some for me to tell boys from girls.

I think three are roos and 4 are pullets. I am confused about the one with copper on the back. Looks like a pullet but has red on the back. The others are a weird SG Dorking and (supposed) Americauna cross. One of the fbcms is missing in the picture.


Ron