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

[drom]

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If that was like 3 or 4 years ago, I remember it and I have pictures of if on my external hard drive. My entire front pasture was snow white and blanketed in about 3 inches of hail!

 

[tfpets]

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If that was like 3 or 4 years ago, I remember it and I have pictures of if on my external hard drive. My entire front pasture was snow white and blanketed in about 3 inches of hail!

That would be the storm!! Messed us up! I would love to see a pic or two if its not too much trouble! Tina

 

[drom]

I will look for those pics!

OK, I have a question about showing poultry. I was thinking I wanted to show 2 of my BCs in Jan. but someone was telling me that when they used to show they wouldn't bring the birds they showed back home because of bio security. Essentially this person was saying any bird you show should be a bird you don't plan to keep because it's too big of a risk to bring them back home.
Any thoughts on that?

 

[Ms. Lewis Rich]

You are allowed to take your birds back home.
You just keep them away from your other birds for a month after you get them back home.
Just had my first Copper hatch a minute ago in this hatch right on time!

 

[tcbfan5]

hello all

I am new to this site, & i am trying to do my homework & i'm hoping i can get some help.
my husband wants to purchase black copper marans. (we currently own silkies & 1 showgirl (naked neck)) i would like to see pictures of these birds (black copper marans) that those of you on this thread own. i would also like to know if anyone can give me info on Channing Grisham / Wade Jeane. What is this exactly? A certain breeder? Bloodlines?
Any info that yall can help me with would be very much appriciated.

 

[tfpets]

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Yes, you can keep a bird, if its a winner, you want those grand champion lines for the future! And like Ms Lewis Rich said, keep them isolated from your birds for 30 days.
Dont give up a bird if you show it, sounds ridiculous to me? Tina

 

[hcammack]

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WELCOME !!!! Black Copper Marans are great. I have blue and black coppers from Wade Jeane lines. They are different bloodlines both of the ones you mentioned are very good strong lines. If you go back through the earlier pages of this post you can find many pictures of people Black coppers and cuckoo marans as well.

Henry

 

[tcbfan5]

THANKS!
I have been going through the site & am finding pics & a little bit of info.
So Channing Grisham, & Wade Jeane are two different bloodlines. They are not one in the same correct?

(Homework starting to pay off lol

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WELCOME !!!! Black Copper Marans are great. I have blue and black coppers from Wade Jeane lines. They are different bloodlines both of the ones you mentioned are very good strong lines. If you go back through the earlier pages of this post you can find many pictures of people Black coppers and cuckoo marans as well.

Henry

 

[drom]

Ditto on what Henry just said and I would add this: I think the best way to get your first stock is to look at what everyone else has been getting. Get recommendations from others and look at pictures of what different breeders are sending to people who have done business with them; DON'T just rely on pictures the breeder shows you. Definitely get multiple recommendations on the breeder. There are lots of pictures of hatching eggs and birds in this thread that people have gotten from various breeders and you can PM those people and ask them if they are happy.

If you are buying BCs for breeding purposes, do as much research as possible. There are many factors that go in to breeding these birds and achieving dark egg color. It is not quite as simple as one thinks at first. You can get dark eggs from a breeder in the mail and hatch out birds that don't end up laying dark eggs.

It is fun shopping for BCs.
Good luck!

Edited to add:
A whole lot of people got their first BCs this year, I am one of them. So, there will be a lot of new people selling hatching eggs. It's difficult to tell someone who is buying your hatching eggs what they can expect from your stock in terms of egg color and type if this is your first season breeding the birds. Honest people will tell you that straight up.

 

[shelleyd2008]

Has anyone gotten BC Marans from bargain? I am on the list for this spring, and just wondered what they were like.