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

[tfpets]

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Monarc those are beauties!! You have pretty babies to be proud of there! I like their names

I love the sequential names too - I have four Cuckoo Marans - If I tell you the first three names can you guess the fourth? Eenie, Meenie, Minee....who do you think the third is??? Yup!
Moe!
Tina

 

[Chef]

THANK YOU! THANK YOU! THANK YOU! I was hoping you would say they would get darker. I got so happy when I saw the dark egg laying in the light shavings

. This is what I've been waiting for for awhile now!

Now I cant wait for my chicks from Donna to grow up! This is soooooo fun! Thanks again ladies for the input you made my day even better.

Chef

 

[tfpets]

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Welcome! Oh yes, the dots are the sign of more good things to come! And sometimes the eggs are just so pretty, even spotted and light! And Donna chicks will become nice grown up Dark Egg Layers! Yippee for you!
Tina/tfpets

 

[monarc23]

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Monarc those are beauties!! You have pretty babies to be proud of there! I like their names

I love the sequential names too - I have four Cuckoo Marans - If I tell you the first three names can you guess the fourth? Eenie, Meenie, Minee....who do you think the third is??? Yup!
Moe!
Tina

haha awh I am very happy about them I just want to snuggle them but for some reason they object to that

 

[ninjapoodles]

monarc23 is the kind of person that I celebrate sending a puppy to. If you knew how I AGONIZE about where my doggies go, you'd understand what an enormous compliment this is!

 

[ninjapoodles]

OK, what in the world is going on with the MCC group? Why does group after group after group associated with this breed implode? I'm gathering that the CLUB is still intact, but just the Yahoo group is falling apart?

Seriously--someone explain this ridiculousness to me...please?

 

[cottagegarden]

Hopefully in the interest of the greater good issues will be resolved. Anytime you have any group or club there are always personalities involved, and egos. Nobody gets anywhere in life alone
though and if you do, it isnt as much fun to not have people to share the glory with. A big hug out to the folks on this thread who have always been informative and supportive to others interested in Marans. And a big thanks to those of you who have gone above and beyond sharing your birds with people who may have otherwise found them cost prohibitive. We will help each other and the Marans will get there and you guys are the best!!

 

[Chef]

Not exactly sure

but I would say it has to do with a select group of people. Just my 2 cents.



Chef

 

[Solsken Farm]

How sad and disconcerting.

Okay, I was Just going to post some stuff over there, questions and picks. I'll do it here for today, as I am sure it would get lost over there.

THIS is why I love Copper Marans so much. Look at the colors in the sun today!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is Gregory Peck, a Jesse Bryant cockerel. He has pretty good coloring, I think. Comb is good, nice feathering. You can't tell, but his tail carriage is pretty nice as well. I am hoping he proves to be a good roo. So far at about 8 months, he is very friendly. Just a nice guy. And a good guardian of his girls. My kids left a pen door open and he had quite a boxing match with one of his "brothers" recently. So disregard the marks on the comb and wattles.

Here are a couple of my Jesse hens. Their coloring and combs are nice, shanks feathered, and the iridescence of their black body feathers in the sunlight is wonderful. These girls are laying pretty consistent 6's. Someone just started laying one of those calcium coated lighter eggs. I have to figure out who.

My question is should I work on combs or color first? I have 2 females from Jesse, and 2 from Davis lines that have too much lacing in their black body feathers. I am not sure if they would be disqualified or not. Now I am wishing I kept Richard's Black Cockerel. I should have put him with these girls. Dumb me. Anyway, should I take them out of my pen with the hens that have correct copper hackles and black body feathers? I won't know how is laying what.

Also, some of my Jesse hens have combs that are less than optimal. Should I ignore this for now? The roos' combs from Jesse's birds were all excellent, but a few of the hens, well I just think they could be improved.

Thanks for any insight.

I have 3 lovely cockerels from "davis" lines. 2 from Richard and one from Sterling Sue. A number of the pullets are a bit dark, but one pullet from Richard is lovely(I think). I will post a pic of her later.

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[onthespot]

I like the roos that have a bit of coppering on the breast like yours does. Just a personal preference, but I favor it personally.

You are not supposed to cross black on brown-red or Copper Black. Since you are going to raise everything until it is nearly grown, make sure you keep several roo babies and see if you can find one with darker reddish hackles and minimal or no copper on the breast and raise that one up. I can trade you some eggs if you want. I have a dark roo, a copper roo and a middle roo.