Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[pinkchick]

Pinkchick these are your babies.... not the best pics but they will have to do.  I don't have any of the slow feathering pullet.  Sorry.

This girl is BLUE at least that is what she look like next to the black pullet in with her.  VERY dark blue. She was blue at hatch.  She has lightly feathered legs.  I don't see any copper really yet. 



I sold him and can probably get more pics as he grows up.  Just let me know if you would like to see him in a few months and I will see what I can do.



He was such a nervous Nelly....... I was in chicken Jail.... he killed a pullet and nearly another.... tormented the new guys to death I made some pen changes and he didn't like his new roommates.....   His tail was normally that high and he had clean legs..... he could have stayed if he had feathered legs.... I could of had a blue flock quick with him



Just a general question anybody can answer.... My last splash roo may have been infertile.... I also read that splashes can be, anyone ever had that problem?  I would love to have lots of splashes and blue, but I can live with just blues if that really is the case.

 

Thanks for posting photos of them Donna.....and I must say that I am glad that you rehomed that Splash cockerel. I personally would have eaten him. *hides under chair* I don't like him at all and especially after reading that he killed a pullet. Lets see what this next batch of eggs will produce for you by way of splash. I am going to send them out on Wednesday. Wish you were closer....I would give you one of the 2 that I have growing out.

I don't have any issues with my Splash boys being infertile and I have never heard that about them.

The little pullet is looking good. The copper in the neck of the females is something that I am struggling with.

 

[Chickhick]

Then there are the different shapes. Here are a couple of mine from the other day. The "torpedo egg", and the much nicer, rounder shaped ruby egg. Finding these eggs is like the saying from Forrest Gump, "life is like a box of chocolates, ya never know what you're gonna get".

Of course, if you stick to one line of birds, you may find it way easier to determine, and to maintain a more consistent color and shape of egg. I am still in the culling process here after 2+ years, so....

I LOVE the round/glossy/ruby egg! Do you have hens from different sources that account for the differences, or is it just random?

 

[Debbi]

Ha! I have eggs from all different kinds of sources! From here on out, if I were to get any more BCMs, it would be from the Presley line, pure Presley. Most of the other stuff I have here comes from a cross of Wade Jeanne and Davis. I can't say I've been impressed with that cross at all, but that's just my birds, others will strongly disagree. Both of the eggs pictured came from girls I got as eggs from our own Pinkchick!

 

[pinkchick]

Those eggs look better than my Cuckoos.

(Edited because the post read the wrong way. )
Flgardens Silver eggs are waaaaaay nicer than the egg that the supposed to be Birchen pullet that shows copper instead of silver that I have has started laying. She has given me about 3 eggs now and they suck out loud!!!! They are almost the same color as a Wyandotte egg. My Project Blue Laced Barnie x Wy girl Stoopid, I suspect she might end up laying a nicer egg than the than the supposed Birchen Marans is, well atleast the spots on her egg are TONS darker than the Marans egg. The Birchen is finding a new home today.

Here is the Birchen egg on the left and Blue Laced Barnie project egg on the right.

 

[DMRippy]

Pink I don't have any pullets with copper YET.... I am starting to see it with some chicks, and I think they must be coming from your Lighter Blue Roo. I have 2 Olive Eggers growing up that have PERFECT copper on their neck.... and I think they came from that pen. I am not sure, but I think I am seeing it in black, but BLUES are starting to show copper for sure

. I am toying with the idea of putting all 6 pullets with your light blue roo and with my black roo in a few weeks. My roo might improve egg color (his sisters lay very dark eggs) and your roo might improve color. We will see, I have empty pens

 

[pinkchick]

Ha! I have eggs from all different kinds of sources! From here on out, if I were to get any more BCMs, it would be from the Presley line, pure Presley. Most of the other stuff I have here comes from a cross of Wade Jeanne and Davis. I can't say I've been impressed with that cross at all, but that's just my birds, others will strongly disagree. Both of the eggs pictured came from girls I got as eggs from our own Pinkchick!

I love those eggs! Yummy!

 

[pinkchick]

Pink I don't have any pullets with copper YET.... I am starting to see it with some chicks, and I think they must be coming from your Lighter Blue Roo.  I have 2 Olive Eggers growing up that have PERFECT copper on their neck.... and I think they came from that pen.  I am not sure, but I think I am seeing it in black, but BLUES are starting to show copper for sure .  I am toying with the idea of putting all 6 pullets with your light blue roo and with my black roo in a few weeks.  My roo might improve egg color (his sisters lay very dark eggs) and your roo might improve color.  We will see, I have empty pens

 

I hope it works for you. I would love to see some color in my girls' hackles....it is there but it is so over melanized that a person can only really see it in the sun and even then it looks very very dark almost black with a reddish tint to it.

 

[pinkchick]

BYC is acting up again here and being very slow...so I guess this is a good time to get offline and get my batoot out the door and accomplish something for the day. Hope all of the Mother's had a WONDERFUL MOTHER'S DAY!!!!!!

 

[Debbi]

I love those eggs! Yummy!

Hey, I love that project Barnie egg you have there! Reminds me of those speckled, Easter eggs that have the malted centers! You know, the ones that make your teeth curl when you bite into them?

I love those things!!

 

[bishop747]

hi everyone!. this question might have already been answered but i am new and havnt figured out the search engine on this site yet.


i just hatched 13 eggs and had a few Q's. i bred a male FBCM with feathered feet with 5 of my rhode island reds and wanted to know how do i sex these chicks?
Do i feather sex them?
Do i color sex them?
and what should i expect from these birds as far as egg color/production?
All chicks are black with white tiped wings and necks and all chicks have 1 row of primary wing feathers longer than the other row. i checked feathers at 1 day of age.
also there is one BR egg i threw in there for the hack of it that was also bred to the FBCM. that one has a white spot on its head.

thank you in advance. good day! P.S. pics coming soon!