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

[kathyinmo]

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Dawn,
You have to write on there (on the Christmas card),
"from my coop .... to yours!" LOL

Love it! Love your Christmas cards! I wish I could do that! Heck, I can't even take a decent picture! LOL

 

[onthespot]

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So far his comb looks really nice, and his foot feathering is correct. He looks a little "tall in the neck" but hopefully it is just his pose and/or he will outgrow it. He has more brown feathering on his chest than some people like, but I would rather have a bit of brown than none at all. Just my personal preference, which most on here do not share. Sometimes when they have a lot of brown on their chest, especially if the shafts of the feathers have a straw color down the middle of the feathers, they can carry wheaten, which is undesireable in Copper Blacks. All that being said, he sure looks like a worthwhile prospect to feed up and se how he does. I have kept and used a few that were not as nice as he is, myself, and sold or culled them when I had better ones to use.

 

[onthespot]

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Meir-see, bow coop! Same 2u2!

 

[call ducks]

Is fether laegs is domint in marans ?

 

[onthespot]

Feather legs is dominant in all chickens. The ones with better foot feathering seem to be homozygous for feather legs. The ones with only small feathers down the side of the leg seem to be usually only carrying one copy of the gene and can produce clean legged babies if you breed them together, or to a clean legged mate.

 

[evonne]

i've been reading a little, and since you guys are on the feathered legs subject again... i got some cuckoo marans from a hatchery.. they all have clean legs...do i not want to breed these?? i got them mostly for the egg color, but i mmight hatch some since i have them.. ??
are cuckoo's sposed to have feathered legs too?

 

[call ducks]

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there are french marans wich have fetertherd feet and the NA vrissons don't but they (marans breeders) are going by the french SOP somost now have fetered lags but not all. So if you were able to find hatchig eggs or a rooster with fethered legs some i belive all would have fetered lags. and yes you can breed them if you want to

 

[onthespot]

Yes you can breed them. You can use other marans varieties to cross on them. If you cross feather legged Copper Blacks on them, you will eventually end up with a flock of both golden cuckoo and silver cuckoos. You could choose whichever color you like best, and concentrate on better foot feathering. It would probably keep popping out silver and golden cuckoos for several generations however. It would probably darken your eggs too, as well as add feathering to the legs. If you crossed a CBM roo on your cuckoo hens, all the barred offspring would be roos. The pullets would not carry the barring gene and would be black or copper black. If you cross a cuckoo roo on CBM hens, you would get both sexes barred, but the roos would only have one copy of the barring gene instead of two. It would not be possible to tell them apart until they showed secondary sex charachteristics. Then you could cross the best feather legged roo on your best, darkest laying barred pullets, and choose the next generation roo as one with lighter overall color and a larger head spot when he hatches, more typical of a homozygous barred/cuckoo roo. If you cross that roo on barred girls, you should be all barred/cuckoo all the time, and your roos should be always homozygous for barring. Good luck!

 

[mstricer]

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So far his comb looks really nice, and his foot feathering is correct. He looks a little "tall in the neck" but hopefully it is just his pose and/or he will outgrow it. He has more brown feathering on his chest than some people like, but I would rather have a bit of brown than none at all. Just my personal preference, which most on here do not share. Sometimes when they have a lot of brown on their chest, especially if the shafts of the feathers have a straw color down the middle of the feathers, they can carry wheaten, which is undesireable in Copper Blacks. All that being said, he sure looks like a worthwhile prospect to feed up and se how he does. I have kept and used a few that were not as nice as he is, myself, and sold or culled them when I had better ones to use.

Thanks for the info. I think the 'tall neck thing is a suprize by flash. He is from Bargains eggs. Thanks Nancy I hope you like.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

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OMG Patty, how do you do that?