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

[ltlchicken]

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thank you very much. i love them. there will be months when they don't lay. i think they're the only one's i don't get mad at when they do that. LOL the blues, from my understanding, just don't lay as dark an egg as the blacks but i think they're doing okay.

the hens can be very mean sometimes but the marans roosters i've noticed are always the sweetest roosters. they are definitely gentle giants.

we're getting some wheaton eggs soon and am anxious to start that flock. i think the hens are so beautiful.

 

[Solsken Farm]

Well we have a meanie roo. I hatched him last summer and he came 24 hours before the rest of the hatchlings and he cried for us and would always run to our hands and as he grew he would always let my little kids pick him up, but this winter he began attacking the kids, our pet sitter and eventually me.

I man handled him, hung him upside down and hauled him around tucked under my arm, and told him if he didn't cut it out he would be stew. He is doing so much better, and hasn't gone after any of us since.

All our girls are sweeties.

I have a wheaten cockerel and 4 pullets. They are so lovely. Poor angels were hatched in November and are in an enclosed stall in the barn, and still have not seen the light of day. I cannot wait for the arctic temps and snow to leave, so they can experience sun and grass. I think wheatens are the prettiest of all. But I am a sucker for blues and blue copper, anything.....I have a whole flock of wheaten and blue wheaten Ameraucanas as well.

Good luck with your wheaten hatching when you get your eggs!

 

[shabbyfarm]

From 08/02/2008
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Do Marans eggs taste different than other eggs or you just do not like the taste of eggs?

 

[Solsken Farm]

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Do Marans eggs taste different than other eggs or you just do not like the taste of eggs?

Yes, they taste a bit like chocolate.

No, just kidding,





it is just Tina HATES EGGS.

 

[tfpets]

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Do Marans eggs taste different than other eggs or you just do not like the taste of eggs?

I'll bet Marans eggs dont taste any nastier than your average egg! You're right, I just dont like eggs!

But, once in a while, I do like a boiled egg yolk, and theres nothing in the world like a big creamy yolk from a Cuckoo Marans egg (with lots of mayonaise to cover it up, and tobasco)! The eggs are nice sized, and the "wrapper" is so pretty!

 

[tfpets]

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I dont know how you bear it??? I would send you some of our clear days for some of your snow - I dont care for the cold, but we're looking at a drought....I am sorry your chooks are frostbitten!

Stay warm when you can!! Tina

 

[newnanchic]

Black Copper Eggs These are the C1 Wade Jeane lines and this picture was taken in January, They started laying in October so there egg color is starting to get lighter. But still pretty just the same .

 

[pbjmaker]

Well here is an updated picture of my big boy Oscar with his serama buddy Pipsqueak. They moved out to the coop this week with the big chickens. I moved 12 out there between the ages of 9 - 13 weeks. Oscar is the youngest and the serama is 10 weeks old. He does fairly well out there since most of the birds are banties and he is as big as them already.

It looks like the serama is in the distance but they are actually right next to each other touching.

 

[ltlchicken]

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sorry if this question has been answered but the thought of reading 166 pages is very daunting....but what exactly is a C1?

 

[newnanchic]

It is a line of Pure Breed Black Copper Marans that were imported form France. The name was given by the man who imported them as his trade mark and they are very sought after birds. I would not comprise this line by adding a different line to them . So he named the the C1 Jeane lines.


I can't spell today .