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

[Crunchie]

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Oh no, are the older ones the ones I sent you?

I didn't send you all roo e g g s did I? Because yep, I only see one pullet in those second pics.

 

[pasofinofarm]

Well A pril f ools day has certaily been fun!... and of course I picked today to catch up about 200 pages of this thread... well I think I still have it figured out.

 

[GracefulBantams]

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Chick number 2 is almost out! I hope I get a pair

 

[pasofinofarm]

I hope you get a quatro... or a whole flock!

 

[Rockpile99]

Here's my first babies!
Pic is two weeks old already. I can't believe how big they are getting.

The larger ones were sold as Auracanas - obviously not 'true' as they have tail feathers. Two CM's & one brn Leghorn.

 

[tgcole]

Cute chicks, Rockpile. Maybe a male and female Cuckoo??

Greg

 

[siz8003]

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Oh no, are the older ones the ones I sent you?

I didn't send you all roo e g g s did I? Because yep, I only see one pullet in those second pics.

yup those are yours LOL every time I get marans this is what happens to me

I get all roos any one wanna give me a guess on the baby chicks?

 

[Krys109uk]

every time I get marans this is what happens to me I get all roos

Marans seem to have a reputation for this. Logically it doesn't really make sense; one would expect an equal chance of the hen passing on a w chromosome as a Z.
The first time I ever came across a one time Marans breeder (British type dark cuckoos) they said they'd stopped breeding them because they threw too many cockerels. It has been reported quite often on e-groups over the years & I thought it seemed that way with my first copper blacks. Since then I have not noticed any such correlation. Anyone else noticed any imbalance between numbers of cockerels to pullets?​

 

[amazondoc]

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Actually, a lot of araucanas have tails. It's just one of the many challenges of breeding araucanas.

 

[tfpets]

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Marans seem to have a reputation for this. Logically it doesn't really make sense; one would expect an equal chance of the hen passing on a w chromosome as a Z.
The first time I ever came across a one time Marans breeder (British type dark cuckoos) they said they'd stopped breeding them because they threw too many cockerels. It has been reported quite often on e-groups over the years & I thought it seemed that way with my first copper blacks. Since then I have not noticed any such correlation. Anyone else noticed any imbalance between numbers of cockerels to pullets?

I must be doing something wrong/right - I got one rooster and five hens when I hatched my black copper marans? Oh, and the little Bent, a very disabled little guy that didnt make it more than a few weeks. I worry all the time that something is going to happen to BC, and I only have the itty bitty Morrow chicks to improve my lines. Ah, Dark Eggs...the lengths I go to so that I can see them in my nest buckets!
Tina/tfpets