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

[SunChick]

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I would have thought that reasonable for a trio of 3 month olds, you are barely recouping your feed bill. I hate people that lower the price just to resell them at higher cost.

 

[geebs]

Wades... much smaller... some strains really much smaller... Davis birds mature quickly as a basic rule... Some Wades can take a LLLLONNNGG time.

 

[geebs]

The price of the bird is just the right price when both parties are happy. Whatever the dollar amount is... someone else will be delighted to buy for that price... Others won't buy it less it is next to free... One has to be careful not to undercut themselves in the marketplace as well. Too low a price and they will assume the quality is less.

Don't worry about (no-counts)

 

[berkeleysprings]

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I would have thought that reasonable for a trio of 3 month olds, you are barely recouping your feed bill. I hate people that lower the price just to resell them at higher cost.

i think the price4 is cheep !
im hitting a swap on the 10th and il b asking $15.00 each hen and $3.00 to $5.00 for each roo and they are the cheeper less popular breed of wheaten around 6 or so months old and im in virginia /west virginia
\\your price is reasonable .... sorry about spelling ,,,, im a old carpenter in a hurry and i cant spell ! i gotta a hot date to go country dancing with my long time love of a girlfriend
lol lol

 

[cook_kaka_ook]

Will this 13 week old pullet produce the same plumage pullets like her even if it is paired with a true Black Copper Marans rooster? I would like to keep her for dark brown egg production like the one she was hatched from. But if I decide to have her eggs hatched, I am wondering if some of her babies will not inherit her color and produce pullets with darker feathers and with just coppering around the neck instead. Is this possible?

 

[blackdotte]

This pullet's juvenile autosomal barred plumage indicates she has the pattern gene, this gene is not found in any variety of Marans. If mated to a Black Coper male her chicks will carry this unwanted gene.
As she has the pattern gene & such dark shanks it indicates an outcross.
David

 

[Happy Chooks]

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Could she be a wellie/marans cross? The patterning reminds me of my wellies, though obviously she's not pure wellie.

 

[upthecreek]

How dark is her eggs ??



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[cook_kaka_ook]

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I don't know which one from this group of eggs but they're dark to me. 6 Maybe?

 

[blackdotte]

Could have been crossed with a Partridge Pendesenca would be my guess.
They are a pencilled, dark shanked, dark egg breed.
David