Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

[hcammack]

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She is from Meyer she is wonderful perfect type I have no idea who the breeder that sells to them is they may have switched back to lower quality birds after but when I ordered both hens lay a terra cotta or darker most of the time she is a great layer I will go check the chart

 

[hcammack]

I looked and I would say between a four and a five on the egg chart

 

[onthespot]

They look great to me! Congrats!

 

[4kidZ]

Yeah...that's pretty darn good for a cuckoo, I'd say. Nice. You are such a lucky dog!

~4kidZ

 

[TerriLaChicks]

My cuckoo Marans hen Myrtle, who is from Meyer this past March, is laying about that shade also.

 

[hcammack]

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Great news I am glad Meyer is actually selling better quality Marans then other hatcheries I got this girl last october.

 

[4kidZ]

I don't think I told you guys that I have cuckoos, now. Out of a dozen, I hatched out 4 healthy pullets and 2 healthy cockerels and 1 "special needs" cockerel.

His name is Pepper, and we think he is crippled. Not only was he the ONLY one born without feathered legs, but ironically, one leg is longer and thicker at the joint, then the other leg. It also points slightly outward.

So, he uses his big wings a lot. He is a heartwarmer, for sure! He has his own brooder inside, and goes out with me every day. He plays in the sand and forages for greens while I feed and water everyone else.

They are about 5 weeks old and have joined my various feather footed breeds in my end pen. They look and act like prehistoric birds, but they are a hoot to watch!

They are from the Kelly Cratty line.


Here are the eggs with the first pip (12/16):



Here they are a couple of days ago. These are from the Kelly Cratty line, but bred to sex by color, by Angi in California-Lighter barring-boys, darker barring-girls:








They LOVE the camera!







And then, here is an update on my bbs Marans from Peachick. They are just STUNNING

I'm so excited at their great temperament, along with their beauty:












The bbs Marans are all alone now after losing their cockerel, Buddy (Copper Blue) and then Bev Davis was nice enough to bring me another ABSOLUTLEY STUNNING blue copper Marans Cockerel to replace him. 2 weeks later, he died from the same symptoms. I really miss Buddy. He was 1 of a kind.

~4kidZ

 

[hcammack]

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THOSE ARE STUNNING BIRDS!!!! beautiful blue coppers I hope you can get another guy from Bev what were the symptoms he died of? I lost on of my pullets who was all black the other is just plain blue with no coppering and the other is a beautiful little black cooper. I love them the are beautiful and so so friendly.

 

[4kidZ]

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Henry,
I was going to send this to you through PM, but thought maybe someone else could learn how to take better pictures of their Marans:

I just finally have a chance to help you take a better picture of your birds.

In the photos of your chicks on the cardboard box (with the priority tape on it) and the green grass background, for example:

This is a standard example of the photographer too close to the subject. Instead of your lens focusing on the foreground (it won't focus on the chick because the chick is too close), it focuses on the background. Thus, this BEEEEAUTIFUL shot of your LUSH GREEN grass!

And you see, if you zoom in, the grass is more crisp, while we lose pixel quality in the chick.

If your point and shoot can't find the forefront subject as easy as what you see, your best bet would be to put a contrasting SOLID color backgroung behind your birdies. Also, in this shot, if you would have got down to the chick's level, your lens would have less chance to try and focus in on the background because the camera is at the same eye level as the subject.

Make sense?

That's lesson 2 for today.
Lesson 1 was: "THAT FLOWER ON MY CAMERA MEANS MACRO??"

Try to take the exact same picture, on a box, with the blue tape and grass in back (white snow on ground will help you take a better pic of the chick, btw!), take 4-5 steps back, squat down, zoom in (OPTICAL ZOOM AREA ONLY...NOT DIGITAL ZOOM!), partially press the button until it gives you the "OK" beep and maybe a green light or green square around the chick, then finish pressing the button...BUT STAY STILL until the camera is finished taking the picture (shutter has fully opened, closed, and camera motor stops.)

Let me know how it comes out...

~Shannon

 

[hcammack]

Quote:
Henry,
I was going to send this to you through PM, but thought maybe someone else could learn how to take better pictures of their Marans:

I just finally have a chance to help you take a better picture of your birds.

In the photos of your chicks on the cardboard box (with the priority tape on it) and the green grass background, for example:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/15726_dscf1822.jpg

This is a standard example of the photographer too close to the subject. Instead of your lens focusing on the foreground (it won't focus on the chick because the chick is too close), it focuses on the background. Thus, this BEEEEAUTIFUL shot of your LUSH GREEN grass!

And you see, if you zoom in, the grass is more crisp, while we lose pixel quality in the chick.

If your point and shoot can't find the forefront subject as easy as what you see, your best bet would be to put a contrasting SOLID color backgroung behind your birdies. Also, in this shot, if you would have got down to the chick's level, your lens would have less chance to try and focus in on the background because the camera is at the same eye level as the subject.

Make sense?

That's lesson 2 for today.
Lesson 1 was: "THAT FLOWER ON MY CAMERA MEANS MACRO??"

Try to take the exact same picture, on a box, with the blue tape and grass in back (white snow on ground will help you take a better pic of the chick, btw!), take 4-5 steps back, squat down, zoom in (OPTICAL ZOOM AREA ONLY...NOT DIGITAL ZOOM!), partially press the button until it gives you the "OK" beep and maybe a green light or green square around the chick, then finish pressing the button...BUT STAY STILL until the camera is finished taking the picture (shutter has fully opened, closed, and camera motor stops.)

Let me know how it comes out...

~Shannon

Thanks no chicks to take pictures of she is a big ole honking pullet now

I got a new camera as my fuji film broke but I assume that this advice applies to all of this type of camera I have a Nikon cool pixs now.

Thanks so much I will make sure I use your advice next time I take pictures