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

[pinkchick]

They are either a result of a Cuckoo hen crossed with a blue or splash roo or they are directly from blue cuckoos. Do you have the parent stock or did you purchase these babies?

They are adorable too....forgot to mention that and I bet they grow out to be beautiful boys.

 

[Lolita]

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I actually have a Splash hen with Black Copper boys so I am confused..

 

[pinkchick]

Really!?!?! Hmmm........

The splash hen crossed with BC boys will give you 100% blue babies but the headspot has me wondering, as stated before blues and blue coppers will not have that spot.....so I am stumped.

 

[Lolita]

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Maybe her background is the question? I had just hatched 6 around 2 weeks before and 3 looked dark with 3 looking like this, the beaks were different colors too

 

[pinkchick]

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Maybe her background is the question? I had just hatched 6 around 2 weeks before and 3 looked dark with 3 looking like this, the beaks were different colors too

I have been sitting here going over in my mind what in her background could possibly pop up to produce barred birds....in my mind there would be no way, so maybe they are not cuckoo but I have never seen a blue, a blue copper or a black copper with a headspot, and that to me is definitely a headspot, but I do not work with the barred birds, only have them for layers and once in a while I will hatch their eggs out if I happen to have a splash roo in their pen for all blue babies

.... I wonder if it is possible for a splash bird to carry the barred gene.
Has anyone ever hatched a splash bird out of blue cuckoo to blue cuckoo crossing?

 

[Lotsapaints]

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I actually have a Splash hen with Black Copper boys so I am confused..

I don't get it either barred is dominate.....so the hen is splash cuckoo? I have Cuckoos let me go thru baby pictures

 

[pinkchick]

 

[blackdotte]

It is quite possible that a Splash Cuckoo bird would look just like an unbarred Splash bird.

Drom, in respect to Standards the APA approach is very different to the European,British approach.
The APA seems to like a one size fits all approach, by this I mean it describes a colour and a list of breeds that should comply with this description. This produces a simple clear cut description.
The other approach is to have a colour description written to be specific to each breed. Thus in Europe,UK the Brown Red of a Modern Game is different from the Brown Red of a Marans.

Names themselves create great confusion, some are taken from the old description of birds as seen in the gaming pits, the colours seen when they are fighting, i.e. Black breasted with a Red back, gives Black Breasted Red. Others are names are exhibitors hobby names, i.e. Colombian from the Columbia Exhibition where it was first shown.
Many of these names bear no resemblance to the genotype description.

In many breeds the production of near to ideal exhibition birds requires nothing more than mating two birds, in other the breeder needs to also understand the art of balancing the strength & weaknesses. A reason why the French go into such detail in the breeding of Black Coppers. Finally in some breeds it is impossible to breed exhibition males & females from the same pen. They have in fact genetically become two separate breeds.
David

 

[Lolita]

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[pinkchick]

blackdotte wrote:
It is quite possible that a Splash Cuckoo bird would look just like an unbarred Splash bird.

Well there ya have it Lolita....I learn something new everyday. I love this site.

It makes sense that she is a splash cuckoo......and explains how you ended up with 3 boys as the cuckoo hen can only pass on the barred gene to her male offspring. A splash cuckoo... too cool!