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

[Chef]

So if you bought a pair of marans and the cockerel had a sprig what would you do? Any info would be much appreciated! Thanks

Chef

 

[gamebirdsonly]

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Yea I won.

 

[drom]

Well, I am really interested to know how you knew that last chick was a pullet. She was a tough one!

 

[drom]

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Those chicks are beautiful. So, what kind of incubator did you use?

 

[onthespot]

if I bought a roo with a sprig and its intended use was for breeding birds that adhere to the standard, and I got the birds from a repuatable breeder, I would contact that breeder and ask for a replacement bird that was of equal quality, minus the disqualifying fault, or a refund of your purchase price and shipping, health certificates, any and all expenditures associated with acquiring the defective bird. I would NOT blow it off and just breed it anyhow if I was trying to breed to the standard. If I was just looking for brown eggs and not so choosey to the standard, I would just fuggedaboudit and use the rooster until you could find a better one.

 

[littlepeddler]

Chef, the experts say........chicken & dumplings. And why.
It was posted on the MOA. Under Health Issues
Hope I helped just a little.

 

[COChickens]

I bought a new Sportsman and now I'm addicted

 

[ninjapoodles]

OK...in looking at the French site and the MCC's proposed APA color standard for brown-red/copper-black roosters, every place that mentions the "copper" color describes it as a "deep orange." It's not described as being lighter in one area than others, like many of my roosters are--just "deep orange" on the head, "deep orange" on the hackles, etc. etc.

So, I'm just checking for opinions to see if I'm on the right track in pulling my roosters who have the wide variations in color out of the breeding pen. My favorite two roos have an even coloring everywhere they're not black, which to me is dark copper, nothing like "orange," but I figure that's a difference in interpreting color names?

Here are examples of the type of coloring in the roosters I've pulled OUT of the Marans pen--thoughts?:

 

[onthespot]

Good call to pull those, anything brassy or blonde looking, OUTTA the pool! (the gene pool that is...

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[ninjapoodles]

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Thanks--I just needed to get some affirmation! I put the "blondies" in with my laying flock, and will be interested to see how the 2nd generation from that cross (Marans over Orpingtons) does as dual purpose barnyard birds.

I just wasn't sure, because I have seen a LOT of birds (mostly from the same sources where I got mine) being used for breeding, who have these variegated colors, and I didn't think it was right, but wasn't sure.