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

[Zoopathy]

OMG--sooooo cute!! Now are those all marans (please excuse my noob-ness)?

 

[pbjmaker]

Drom thanks for directing me to the picture in post 4113. It takes sooo much time to go back through this whole thread and read it. I read it every few weeks or so. I appreciate that you remembered the pic and directed me to it.

I now totally get what you are referring to as mossiness - I feel so enlightened.

 

[pinkchick]

Thanks! Yep all Marans. They are out of my main breeding pen which has a very dark blue copper roo over a blue hen, a blue copper hen, 2 black copper hens and a copper splash hen.

 

[onthespot]

I put my mossy/partidgey looking ones (pullets) on craigslist for $50 each, explaining their color defect an they usually sold same day, with follow up calls of people frustrated they had missed out.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

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Thank You!

 

[amazondoc]

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"Culling" just means removing them from the breeding flock. What you do with em -- eat their eggs, sell the birds, eat the birds -- is up to you.

I dunno enough about the genetics of the mossy trait to know what is best to do with the siblings. I now have a group of BCs that has this problem, so I am starting out by monitoring the chicks with the least amount of brown in their down. One step at a time!

 

[AHappychick]

ok so sport and mossie are different, I guess mine was just mossie.

yes I just sold them when I culled I did not kill them

 

[kathyinmo]

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$50. each for a cull? Are you kidding me ??? That is just crazy! I wouldn't pay that much for one that is NOT a cull ! Gee, with all the culls I am likely to have, I could get rich selling culls (at that price!) ....

 

[AHappychick]

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$50. each for a cull? Are you kidding me ??? That is just crazy! I wouldn't pay that much for one that is NOT a cull ! Gee, with all the culls I am likely to have, I could get rich selling culls (at that price!) ....

different areas different values, just the way it is.

 

[Knight Hawk Ranch]

Pictures as promised:

BC Marans and Blue copper parents were purchased from Bev Davis directly.
Peeps hatched in Oct 2009 (red chicks are Rhode Island Reds)

As teenagers in Jan 2010

New Years Hatch:

I have to say that Bev is one of nicest people I have dealt with. Very willing to share her knowledge.