Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[snowbird]

Snowbird, don't you think that color looks brassy, though? I think in one of the pics he is right next to one that has color that looks more correctly copper to me. His color is the lightest of all the ones I have.

Sorry, but I do not see brassy. If you only breed to the real dark copper males on a continous basis, you will start getting more and more Mahogany colored males. You will get Straw, copper and mahogany regardless since that is normal.

This male has way better type than any you have showed. What we have to remember is you buy the feed and take care of them so should pick what you like best of all. There sure would be a cage here for a young male as good as this one.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

There is peeping coming from under my broody !!! OMG !!! I'm SO excited .....

 

[Arielle]

Arielle~
I single mate and use one rooster per pen. I know which hen lays which egg so that makes it easy...but only if I mark the egg and segregate in the bator at hatch.

How many different color legs bands does this mean?

 

[CountryFriedChicken]

Well Mary will be reciveing her 1st Marans chicks this week if all goes as planed, She is getting both the Bev Davis line and the Wade Jeane lines.
Mary has previously had a phone conversation with Bev a while back and we can find her information but so far we do not seem to be able to find too much on the Wade Jeane line?

Mary plans to keep the lines pure and not cross the two as it stands, I am sure we will have a ton of questions as we go along dealing with a specific breed VS. the layers and pets she has now so please bear with us as she is still learning

Scott and Mary Ras

I really like my Jeane birds - they do require some work, but I still like them. You will have to work with the wheaten gene, and there is the mossiness... my hens do not have copper hackles, but I am working on that. Nice eggs - 5-6 are the average for me, I am on my starter birds... so.. hopefully that will improve with selective breeding.

 

[Mountain Mel]

It's 66 here @1:08 PM. Summer is over, now come the fall rains!
Hiya, Pinkchick!

 

[BarnGoddess01]

There is peeping coming from under my broody !!! OMG !!! I'm SO excited .....

It's blue. I saw that much and she was back down.

(It wasn't from my potential splash candidate. Saw that egg still intact.)

 

[Arielle]

Quote:

DH laid a VERY long hose last year to the riding arena to support the "pond" life . Really? THen he and the boys collected EVERY tadpole and put them in an artificial pond, a plastic turtle sand box, for the rest of the summer, with an ocassional refill..

I said nothing this year. Boys collected, tadpoles died, I dumped. The poor things, but they are laying in the wrong place, they need to travel another 1000 feet for better water source. Need to finish grading the arena.

 

[Arielle]

DON--

Is #37 a good example of what you call straw??

 

[snowbird]

DON--

Is #37 a good example of what you call straw??

Sorry, no he is not, he just has what some call a blended Copper color. When you go out to the barn if you use Wheat Straw that is what is referred to as straw colored. Entirely too much energy is being wasted on the Black Copper young male. The only male I have seen looking better is the Black Copper males Vicki is hoarding in Nebraska. Hi Vicki.

 

[Hens and Roos]

I have a question, but first a disclaimer..... I like splashes too. Questions, what do you do with your splashes? I know it is a quick way to get blues, but after you have the blues is it not better to breed blue to blue? I know that is best for BLRW.... does that not hold true for Marans or other breeds? I know they will give you a wide pallet of blues, but is that what we want in Marans? Does it matter? Just a question.... If the blues are accepted would it not be a med type blue like you would get from a blue to blue breeding? I am just trying to decide if I need to make it possible to get Splashes... I don't have it that way now.

Educate me please........

This is a issue that many discuss back and forth, I have heard some people don't keep black or splash and just use the blue to blue mating. We have the Andalusian breed as well as the Marans. We have all 3 colors blue black and splash, we will have a rooster of each color this year. We are going to cross the black rooster with the best looking laced girls we have to attempt to add better lacing. The splash x black crossing is a quick way to get blue. HTH