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

[walkswithdog]

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Awww not even one is just heartbreaking...

I'm sorry, I'll hope for luck for both of us next time.

 

[walkswithdog]

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I have noticed my broodies have much better luck in Fall and spring then after June gets going. And by July - hatches suck here in the bator or under a broody. So I'm closed down til Fall.

 

[onthespot]

me too! I think I quit just in time. Last ones out were july 4th. Good hatch. Heat wave set in right after and has never left!

 

[TammyTX]

I finally get to post some photos of my Maran eggs. They are from McMurray and I know they are not the super dark egg, but with the couple that are laying I'm not totally disappointed.

There is a white egg for reference.

ETA: There are some of every breed I have in the photo.

 

[texasbartrambaby]

Those are all very nice!

 

[onthespot]

Hey, I got some blues and blacks laying lighter than that right now. Nice looking set of eggs!

 

[TammyTX]

Thanks!!

I love all my eggs but I get the most excited about the dark eggs. The white store bought egg is a "large" and it makes my eggs look like small pullet eggs, for sure.

I don't know where that yellowish egg came from. I posted a bigger photo of it in the egg laying thread. It's a mystery!

 

[promiselandfarm5]

I have a few BC Marans chicks that are about a month old. Several of them have very large combs

I think they must be roos, but someone told me that you just can not tell that earlier because BC Marans are hard to sex.

Any comments from the Maran experts?

 

[havi]

Okay, can someone clear this up for me? I pronounce marans as.. mare-N 's. Almost like errands, but with a 'ma' sound and leave the d out. But their is a friend who swears up and down that I am saying it wrong and that its.. Ma-ran 's. As if you ran somewhere. But this is also the same person who thinks EE/Ameraucanas/Araucanas are all basically the same. And that you can get true Ar. and Am. from a hatchery.

 

[CheepSunglasses]

To answer the BC Marans question, in our (somewhat limited) experience, we would suspect that any BC with any pink in its comb at 4 weeks old is a roo. But there are also different lines of Marans that mature at different rates. So it's a little early to tell.

We've heard a lot of different opinions on the pronunciation of Marans, too. But since they were named for a town in France, the French pronunciation is probably the correct one.