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

[onthespot]

where are you located?

 

[SweetMissDaisy]

Here are a couple more pics of the Golden Cuckoo chick that hatched today... any guesses on gender now that it's a bit more dried off?

Pullet?! ...Cockerel?

The orange and white thing next to it is it's stuffed chicken friend until another baby hatches. That little stuffed chicken has been the best friend for so many of our babies!

 

[btrent94]

I am located in Glendale Arizona

 

[onthespot]

btrent94, PM sent.

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Well my grand plan for developing a Mille Fluer Marans is down the loo for now...it turns out I can't have roosters after all. There's never a shortage of drama and whining around here.

So who's gonna pick the ball up and run with it? I hereby release my copyright/trademark/patent on the terms "Mille Fluer Marans" and "Thousand Flowers Marans".

 

[sloallie10]

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LOVE THE PICTURES!

 

[everythingjane]

napavalleychickens,
would love to hear more about these mille fleur marans.. that is the coolest idea.. I just saw some mille fluer cochin bantams last weekend and fell in love with the color... I'm afraid there would be problems with our cats with bantams, so this color on marans would be combining two of my favorites

The new little wheaten girls are looking lovely.. I am really liking this color. Still planning on getting pictures of that odd blue based chick I have.. wish it would stop raining here so that I can get him/her outside.. all plans for starting a garden are also on hold here due to the flooded garden area!

 

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

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Oh, it was just an idea I had a while back and threw it out for feedback in this thread. onethespot suggested that Mille Fleur Foghorns, er, Leghorns I mean, would probably be the ideal breed to lift the color/pattern from. I'm not sure which variety of Marans would make the best starting point. I'd planned on getting some Millie Foghorn eggs and going from there, but I've recently been ganked on the whole rooster thing.

 

[onthespot]

If i was going to try to make mille fleur marans, I would start with plain black marans, not copper blacks, to keep the genetics as simple and free of other modifiers as possible. I am NOT a genetics whiz with chickens, but in two generationss I would think you would be able to get at the very least, mottling on your birds, and another generation or two you could be showing some brown based birds with some mottling. As for your egg color during that time, it would probably be straight in the toilet, but you would have several generations to try to bring it back to at least a four.

 

[monarc23]

I gotta project I'm going to be working on as well, keeping it a suprise until I get the eggies (of the breed I want to cross for color use)...im sure someone else is already working on it but I can't wait to work on it myself