Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[DMRippy]

Hey i need some help.... i just hatched some marans and i think she only runs nlues and black so no splashes are possible but i have a yellow chick with black spots what could it be? Sport white or wheaten? I cant do pis right now but tonight...... the spots r making me think wheaten......

 

[Arielle]

Hey i need some help.... i just hatched some marans and i think she only runs nlues and black so no splashes are possible but i have a yellow chick with black spots what could it be? Sport white or wheaten? I cant do pis right now but tonight...... the spots r making me think wheaten......

Donna, I had a pretty yellow cream chick hatch also--I just thought she was a divider jumper bot still wasn't totally convinced of that. I just pulled her out of the OE and CM brooder and thru her in with the AM/EE.

I guess I'll know when the comb is a single rather than a pea comb.

 

[gilavina]

Debbi! i can't get my photos to post on BYC! GRRR. I'm gonna try again later, but I've cleared the history/emptied the cache, closed the browser, and restarted the computer and nothing so far. Grr again I say...GRRR

 

[DMRippy]

Help me in the mean time... what do we have here.... wheaten? sport? white?



Kinda has a chipmunk think but looks more like black spots? What is it?

 

[DMRippy]

One more what color and gender are these cuckoos? I am new the cuckoo sexing thing....

I think all these are reg cuckoo



This is a younger group and 2 are blue? 6&8



Tell me please how you sex cuckoos? I have someone that wants four and I don't want to give them all roos. I don't mind giving them all pullets if that is what they want. I just don't know who is who?

 

[Debbi]

Debbi - I agree on the broody!

This is the first time I let a broody hatch her eggs and, after a few false starts, she did it!

Little bantam Cochin pullet hen with 3 she hatched, and gave her 5 more that are a week old!

She's very proud! and a great mommy!

I pulled the egg from both broody pens today! Enough already!!!

In pen 2, there are 4 hens and 1 roo, and 12 babies all running around together! They had left one hen in the nest box to finish the incubation, but she was looking so worn out, I could not stand it another minute! I pulled 9 eggs out from under her, and candled them. All were good but 1. Went on to pen 1, where nothing has hatched, but 2 hens were sitting tight. Pulled them and candled, and 2 were bad, so that left 6 good ones from this nest. So now, I've got 14 eggs in my backup bator, back to square one!

The birds from pen 1 are supposed to be sold tomorrow, so if these eggs hatch, it'll either be me or the pen 2 gang raising them...probably me. I WILL be having Silkie chicks for sale!

 

[Debbi]

Donna ~ That spotted chick doesn't even look like a Marans to me. Different breed may have gotten in there? As for the Cuckoos, I don't do Cuckoo, but aren't the males supposed to have a spot on their heads? Or is it the other way around? Either way, I see a lot of spots, so that's either really bad or really good. Big help there, huh??

Chime in you Cuckoo folks!

 

[Flowerbh]

Debbi, here is a chart that might help you.
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[Flowerbh]

DMRippy, go to google and type in sexing cuckoo marans. There is a great website that tells you....lighter color chicks with big headspots are males. darker black chicks with no or little headspots are female. Look on google!

 

[DMRippy]

DMRippy, go to google and type in sexing cuckoo marans. There is a great website that tells you....lighter color chicks with big headspots are males. darker black chicks with no or little headspots are female. Look on google!

I will.... I think that is for goldens though.....

Ok, I looked and you seem to be right... but I still need someone to tell me. I would have to look at a lot of pics to be sure.