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

[americana-chick]

The roo has 5 or 6 points on the comb. I will try and get better pictures they are just getting use to their surroundings so hopefully i can get some pics.

 

[Byrdj]

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She has good form but her eyes are too dark and should have feathered shanks to mee the French standard and proposed APA standard. Her eggs are ver nice! It might be hard to sell her for what you paid for her. Personally I would keep her just for the dark eggs.

 

[kathyinmo]

I've never been to a show, and am quite new to the poultry world. I just heard a person pronounce Marans differently than I had heard before. What is the correct pronunciation of Marans?

 

[brownlikewoah]

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She has good form but her eyes are too dark and should have feathered shanks to mee the French standard and proposed APA standard. Her eggs are ver nice! It might be hard to sell her for what you paid for her. Personally I would keep her just for the dark eggs.

Thank you for the information, it is very helpful! I only have 5 chickens right now but it is hard because we have a suburban house. The chickens have free run of the yard during the day and since it is winter time our grass has basically stopped growing, and the chickens haven't stopped scratching lol. Slowly but surely they're destroying the yard, which is part of the reason it might be nice to downsize... but for now I'm just thinking. Someday we'll have plenty of land and the chickens can destroy alllll they want!

 

[pinkchick]

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PC are you planning on breeder her to a Black Copper or a Blue Copper?

Thanks Geebs!

littlepeddler~ I was kicking around the idea of using my blue copper roo over her in hopes of watching both a blue and a black baby grow up and see what happens with both colors.

 

[cottagegarden]

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Here's a funny mossy blue that would fix your girl right up. (haha) He's only 16 weeks, so he will be redder and redder and all too red.
I think its pretty though. Off to the EE pen for him.

 

[kathyinmo]

I guess we all think differently. My plan is to NOT breed any that don't look much closer to the proposed SOP. I guess if you just want dark eggs, it is different. I want to work toward the French SOP, and will not breed those that are sorely lacking.

 

[cottagegarden]

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Kathyinmo-good breeding is all about selection and balancing things out. If PC has a pullet correct in type, eye color, feathered legs, and good egg color
but is lacking in proper copper there isnt any reason not to breed her. She still has the genes to throw coppered babies. If you are breeding a patterned
bird like Mottled, Columbian, or Mille Fleur it is all about selecting a mate that will compliment your goal.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

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Kathyinmo-good breeding is all about selection and balancing things out. If PC has a pullet correct in type, eye color, feathered legs, and good egg color
but is lacking in proper copper there isnt any reason not to breed her. She still has the genes to throw coppered babies. If you are breeding a patterned
bird like Mottled, Columbian, or Mille Fleur it is all about selecting a mate that will compliment your goal.

I understand the reasoning behind this, but now I have a question. When two birds that are not the correct color but will compliment each other are bred and offspring is produced--will the offspring breed true or will there be chicks down the road that come out with odd coloring?

 

[geebs]

That ought to do it... that is a LOT of red... Pretty bird... (at least if it is going incorrect.... It should be this attractive)