Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[laughingclown]

As I am going to get rid of my only Blue Roo I have will I still have the ability to hatch out Blues if I put a Black Roo over a Blue hen? Or will they be all Blacks? I would like to still get some possible Blues and Splashes?

If I still will get some blues anyone have the potential percentages of BBS that I have seen on here?

 

[gilavina]

Black mated to blue will give you 50% blue and 50% black on average.

 

[laughingclown]

Black mated to blue will give you 50% blue and 50% black on average.

Will I get the opportunity of any Splash chicks?

 

[gilavina]

Will I get the opportunity of any Splash chicks?

when you breed blue to blue later on you will

 

[gilavina]

Took a few shots of my birchens that are my own project. These are two generations removed from the crap I started with. They look nothing like what I started with and know I have a long ways to go still, but am pleased with the major differences I'm seeing. I'll hold onto these until I see what sort of prospects I have from my other grow out pens and from those eggs I put into lockdown later tonight.

she's cropped in tight from a group shot, so I've lost the crispness on her...she really doe have a nice single comb, not the blob of pink you see haha






He's a split for gold, but has good heft and size on him. One serration on the second point of the comb, but I can deal with that after the mess I started with

 

[DMRippy]

NOW.... if we could just see Pink's Birchen babies......

But Vicki you keep us entertained till then

 

[gilavina]

NOW.... if we could just see Pink's Birchen babies......

But Vicki you keep us entertained till then

haha...I'm tryin to be patient too...I'm so curious, especially since mine go into lockdown this evening!

 

[snowbird]

Lately I see some still saying that the BC males can have 10% copper in the breast area. Where is this info. coming from ? We should not be encouraging new Marans people to breed these Copper copper breast males as they will produce more junk than anyone would want. Stay away from these copper co;ored breast and you will have less headaches to worry about.

Also if you are breeding to the APA SOP the only breed group that has a say is the Sponsoring club. None of the other clubs breed standards mean anything.

 

[Debbi]

Is anyone else having trouble with the "reply" and posting pics?? The reply button only brings up the plain version, no font colors, B I or U or the smilies. I also can't paste a picture to this reply format. What's up? This started yesterday..

 

[pinkchick]

9 of the Birchen Babies from Rodney and the one with the pink band is my Birchen boys test baby. I put the Birchen chick with the leg issue down this morning, it just was not improving.