Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Hens and Roos]

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Originally Posted by 3riverschick

First lessons in poultry keeping: Second year course... - Page 119
books.google.com
John Henry Robinson - 1906 - 160 pages - Free Google eBook - Read
http://tinyurl.com/7rzxmmy
Best Regards,
Karen

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Are these books only readable on line or can you down load to say an ipad?
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Unless I erred, all the links I share can be downloaded. When you click the tinyurl
and the page comes up, look in the upper right-hand corner. In Google Books, there's
an icon which looks like a wagon wheel. Click on it and several options will come up. One
of them is to download in a PDF.
In Archive.org, , click on the window titled, "View the book". There are at least three ways
to download the book.
Best Regards,
Karen

thanks that was the step I was missing! Now have 1 of the 2 downloaded and working on the second

 

[Missa Chickabee]

Welcome to the thread. Its actually quite a good thing to have green sheen on the birds. That's the color most desired as it is a indicator of other good things you want in the coloring of your fowl. I would try to hunt around locally to see if you can get some ladies near you. The BCMs I've seen from most hatcheries don't have very good color eggs. There are also some people that can ship chicks here on BYC, but would recommend waiting til the heat of the season is over.


OK. Green sheen is good. I'm happy about that but what do they mean on this website when they seem to brag about no "mossiness"?

http://nexttonaturefarm.com/Black_Copper_Marans.html

I was also wondering at what age a Marans rooster is fully mature, size-wise, colors and filled out?

Thanks much

 

[DMRippy]

Quote: She is a HE no doubt!
As no one mentioned why it is a he--- the brown coloring far down his back near the tail is only on the boys. He is just starting to put on his coloring.

For me I didn't get beyond that comb and wattles..... the color helps but the red comb and wattle was the DEAD give away. I see combs at a week some times as day olds I can see the roos.

 

[Arielle]

Candled some eggs tonight (day 7) Couldn't see life in the 6 out of 14 under Mother Hen that we checked. It is cold tonight and didn't want to cool the eggs too much. Hoping that us newbies who have never attempted to look inside a marans egg are just not seeing what we need to lol. We could see the yolks for the most part- but could not determine life in them. One seemed more filled then the rest, but air sacs were not really visible. We are just going to give it more time and check again sometime next week.

Like Donna said, hold out until much later.

I am more likely to toss at lockdown UNLESS they are marans, I can't see thru the dark eggs no matter what flashlight I use. Only clear eggs are tossed if they are non-marans. Also,I put in questionable eggs because sometimes they hatch! I sometimes have a larger egg hatch later than smaller eggs.

Hubby is going to buy me a dehumidifier that works.

My humidity has jumped back up to the 40's. I'll check the eggs as I bought a new flashlight today. We use the flashlights everyday and ,boy, they don't last long. DH needs to take back the lifetime guaranteed flashlight to the store LL Bean for the second time. WIsh it really would last a lifetime.

In the past we have been able to determine pretty good what is living and not, but those were pink and light brown eggs lol We'll just wait it out.... talk about suspense!

Marans I handle differently than the pink or blue eggs as those are VERY easy to see thru. I can often toss by day 10. THough I wait just in case.

Yes, very suspenseful!

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Isn't the marans sop available on line via one of the marans clubs?

 

[DMRippy]

My humidity dipped below 40% today.....

I set some more eggs so it better get straight ASAP. I have crackers and rice in there.... also ran the old AC and I think the RH was some lower today

Set Blue and Black Coppers and Cuckoos..... one last hatch of Cuckoos..... I set about 90 eggs, most I don't expect much of a hatch or any, it is just a test.

Becky, I set the Exchequers for you!

 

[Cadeau]

Pretty sure that's what I read, too. Something along the lines of having to do a reprint because the SOP's are selling really well and the insert on Marans would be included in those. I don't remember anything about buying the insert separately.

oh - I thought the other day he said that they were going to get the Marans in the next printing...that we'd get an insert right now (on the Ameracauna thread)

 

[Arielle]

I think he said they are going to do an insert in the future. Not yet. You can go to marans.org site to get the SOP.
http://www.marans.org/sop.html
I printed it out and put it into the back of my book myself.

ANy pictures??

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Are both the wheaten and the black coppers included as inserts?

 

[DMRippy]

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Are both the wheaten and the black coppers included as inserts?
I am sure you can get both at the website. Walt said no pictures even in the reprint. Maybe in 10 years in the NEWer Edition.

I thought he said there was an insert for these books and it will be added to the back of a reprint without pictures.

 

[Cadeau]

Isn't the marans sop available on line via one of the marans clubs?

Yep!

But I wanted the APA SOP, so that I can read and see all the illustrations about the general SOP requirements, rather than breed specific