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

[pinkchick]

Tim~

Thanks for posting more photos of them and your cell phone takes great pics. They are adorable no matter what they are!

Posting photos of them as they feather out will help alot in terms of seeing the pattern that they take on. I would love to follow the development of these babies.

BTW:

 

[Lolita]

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I can not answer about the problem, so sorry

Actually I have never shipped. I hatched the boys from nice eggs that I posted here and they were my 1st Marans.

 

[pinkchick]

Sorry Illia!

I got side tracked.

I only breed and raise birds that originated from Davis lines.......and I have only ever had a problem with one little baby. It was born without any eyes. It had sockets but just skin over the sockets. Poor little thing it was so sweet. They have always been very healthy little babies.

 

[Bravo]

Can someone answer a few questions about sexing BCM's? I saw the posts a few pages back by Lolita and like her I have 4 week olds that I purchased as straight-run day olds from a CA breeder. The breeder I bought them from had BCM hens with gigantic combs.

Almost all of the chicks have large pronounced combs but only a few of them are actually turning pink. I put an ad on CL to sell the ones with pink combs but now I am having reservations after looking at the photo of the pullet posted by Geebs.

I guess my question is can I say pretty confidently that the 4wk olds with the pink combs/waddles are little cockerels? I would hate to sell off pullets.

Thanks!

 

[Illia]

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Yeah, 4 weeks usually most of the cockerels start to go fleshy. I had another cockerel who looked like a pullet to some at that age, but even though his comb wasn't really showy - It was still much bigger than the pullets. Also, I find cockerels tend to copper in faster than the pullets. . . But that usually isn't until later.

 

[Sebrightmom]

I have some questions for you all. I have a small flock of Black Copper Marans with one Blue Copper. 4 of my Black Copper Marans hens are from Ray Valentine (I got them as chicks) and the blue one is from Ron Presley and Fox bloodlines as well as the rooster( I hatched these out of eggs). Here are pictures of them.

I have hatched chicks from these guys and others have too. I have gotten some beautiful chicks but then I get some that have what I have seen people say on here as mossy color to thier feathers. What causes this? Does both parents have to be carriers of the gene? I am new to Marans and trying to learn what I can do to get this out of my flock.

 

[Bravo]

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Thanks Illia! By "fleshy" do you mean pink?

I dont mind holding on to the suspicious ones until I know for sure but I'd really like to get the 100%-for-sure-cockerels into new homes

 

[berkeleysprings]

ive only been into marans a little over a year but every once in a wile i get an egg from one of 3 wheatens thats almost grey in color or smokey color and i think someone asked before this same question . what is the cause ? and i wonder if this is a culling offence ?
i could think if i was showing the bird and a smokey egg pops out what would the judge say ?, and the funny thing is if i wash the egg it turns a great dark color until it dries back to almost grey ,smokey color . now i know for a fact the same adult lays a regular 5 on the color chart or something to that effect and the egg hatched and chick looks normal that i hatch yesterday . i marked the chick with food coloring and i will leg band it when its older and take notes , i set up a simple microsoft excell spreed sheet to take notes on all the birds i have and the leg band numbers keep it stright

 

[Illia]

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Thanks Illia! By "fleshy" do you mean pink?

I dont mind holding on to the suspicious ones until I know for sure but I'd really like to get the 100%-for-sure-cockerels into new homes

Yeah, I mean pink.

Right now I have 5 black coppers that are 3 weeks old, only two have huge combs and only one of those two are getting pink. I'm hoping only these two are males, the other three are pullets. I'm also picking up a 6th black copper from the same breeder I hatched these from tomorrow. She said she doesn't know its gender yet, and I believe it is younger than mine, but right now I don't mind if it is male or female - I could do with either.

- Also picking up 4 blue wheaten pullets. Sooo excited for that. I hope they lay good, dark eggs. Wheatens are usually pretty light layers, but hers seem to be pretty nice so far. Her layers are young though, but I don't know how young.

 

[Byrdj]

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Thanks Illia! By "fleshy" do you mean pink?

I dont mind holding on to the suspicious ones until I know for sure but I'd really like to get the 100%-for-sure-cockerels into new homes

If you can post pictures of them we can probably be of more help.