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

[katrinag]

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Nice eggs.

 

[Chef]

So does anyone here have marans with comb springs? This has been a discusion recentely on the yahoo marans group. Just curious to see how common it is.

Chef

 

[ninjapoodles]

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No sprigs, but I did pull out one roo whose comb flopped over to one side in the front, before it had even grown very large.

 

[klf73]

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No sprigs, but I did pull out one roo whose comb flopped over to one side in the front, before it had even grown very large.

I had a non marans roo whose comb did that, now it just popped back up. No idea why

 

[onthespot]

I have a hen with minimal comb sprigs and a halfway shade of white to the earlobes. I assume she is a Penedesenca cross. She supposedly came from Ray Valentine. She is also small frame and flighty, which further leads me to think that she is a cross. Feel free to cross post my info if you like.

 

[AngelzFyre]

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What exactly IS a comb spring? Do you have pictures of it?
Sorry to sound ignorant about it but I've never heard that term.
Thanks.

 

[Chef]

Look on the yahoo marans group in the pictures. You will find it there.


Chef

 

[littlepeddler]

I have yet to find that picture.

I must be looking in the wrong place.

 

[Chef]

Are you a member of the group? It is under pictures from handh farm and says bcm cockerel sprig. There are three pictures.

Chef

 

[amazondoc]

Just a small correction: the word is "sprig", not "spring". "Sprig" means a small branch, or part of a branch (in plants). So a sprig on a rooster's comb is a small branch/protrusion off the side of the main comb structure.

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