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

[marquisella]

well, here's the thing. The standard is pretty clear about the copper color. And until this year, the French standard did say it required a black breast. I think that the French were having the same problem with color in the breast,so they changed it to allow some color.

So, what is some color? If you look at pictures, it seems to be a slight lowering of color speckled an inch or so down from the hackles. Or, a slight, insterspersing of colored feathers in the upper part of the breast. They are still definite about the copper color. Gold color anywhere is not allowed. Also, some roosters hackles start out copper, but fade to straw down to the tips, that is also specified as a dq.

Its been my experience though, when you breed those roosters with more "color" in the breast, the hens come out with that yellow, black laced hackles that are a definite no-no in the standard.

And, just another antidote from me, I have had hens with those hackles, and they did not lay darker eggs. Yes, some might, but it is not a sure thing that they will lay darker eggs, nor is it a sure thing that mossy hens will lay darker eggs. Some of my darkest layers have the least color in their hackles. Its just work with what you have, and then try to improve.

Sue

 

[Lolita]

17 week BCM vs 20 week Bantam Splash Cochin

 

[halo]

OMG!!! Did you cut off that chickens head there on the ground???

 

[geebs]

did you seriously think we would look at the cochin and marans with a head lying on the floor looking at us!!???

 

[Lolita]

ROFL I can't stop laughing I just noticed!

Ok ok here he is alone with nothing else around
GAH except some Cochin fluff at the bottom again

 

[berkeleysprings]

up date on the wheaten line cross
, there looking more like the adults . i was worried about the leg feathering being to much but as they age they mellow out and look better. they must have a growing spirt of feathers when there in there teens and grownig

 

[marquisella]

Very nice rooster color! well done..

Sue

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[aalbury]

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I've been told this often means they carry Wheaten and are ER/EWh. So, base is both Birchen and Wheaten rather than the ER/ER as BCMs should be. You could try separating them out now so you can tell them apart and breed out the birchen on the wheatens - getting 2 for 1 in a sense.

 

[Illia]

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Nice Wheatens! The top photo are what all my Wheatens look like, but I have Blue Wheatens too.

 

[Illia]

btw - Does anyone have pictures of Splash Copper Marans? - Cockerels/Roosters in particular? I'm dying to see what they look like!