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

[KellyHM]

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Thanks! He was the ugly duckling when he was little, but he sure did turn out pretty!

 

[KellyHM]

Anyone want to tell me the sex of my Wheatens? I heard you can color sex them, but they all look the same to me...they're 1.5 weeks old.

 

[nivtup]

There is a thread on here with lots of photos of our wheatens as chicks, we found that it took three weeks to clearly see the difference in color sexing.

We also found that the ones feathering out first on the shoulders were pullets.

Good luck, it looks like at least one pullet.

 

[McSpin]

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I made an ameraucana x welsummer cross and was expecting olive eggs, but the dark pigment was so overpowering on the F1s, I just got a different shade of brown that was also lighter, but no olive look at all. My ameraucanas throw a very blue egg, which I thought would contribute to a more olive color on the cross, but it wasn't to be. I have 6 hybrid hens and they all produce the same identical shade of brown.

 

[monarc23]

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OH MY GOOOSHHH! Is that what mine could turn out to look like!??!!

!!! I think im going to name her Hawk then

Maybe it will give her good mojo

 

[monarc23]

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[tfpets]

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Girls!! All Girls!

Although all mine are girls, always. I never have a Rooster, until it crows! Even then, I dont give up hope, I have heard that sometime hens can crow!

But really, Wheaton chicks, the males, have more dark in their wing tips, I believe. Amazondoc could tell you or show you.

Tina

 

[KellyHM]

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Girls!! All Girls!

Although all mine are girls, always. I never have a Rooster, until it crows! Even then, I dont give up hope, I have heard that sometime hens can crow!

But really, Wheaton chicks, the males, have more dark in their wing tips, I believe. Amazondoc could tell you or show you.

Tina

Although that many girls would be wonderful I do need at least 1 roo!

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Okay hay youz guyz...I'm gonna make a Thousand Flower Marans...

should I use a d'Uccles and then breed up for size

or a Cochin and then breed down the excessive feathering.

or a millie foghorn and then breed up the egg coloring (this seems the hardest because it's hard enough to just make the Marans lay Marans eggs..the last thing we need is to introduce some white foghorn eggs)

or whut?

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[onthespot]

I'd go with a foghorn. Less to correct, and my cochins just lay tinted eggs anyhow, which might just as well be white. My friend has a LF mille fleur rooster that has a rose comb, and is a totally stunning bird, of unknown breeding. I should post a picture of him here just so you could see him. He is WILD looking!!! really nice personality too... I have no way of knowing what sort of egg color genetics he comes from, but probably NOT marans, to say the least.