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

[GracefulBantams]

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Thats a pretty good hatch..

Here are the chicks I hatched from okcarla's Cuckoo Marans eggs

I got 9 chicks out of 12 eggs

(and another two eggs fully developed but just did not hatch)

 

[monarc23]

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Thats a pretty good hatch..

Here are the chicks I hatched from okcarla's Cuckoo Marans eggs

I got 9 chicks out of 12 eggs

(and another two eggs fully developed but just did not hatch)

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a53/gracemccain/100_2717.jpg

great hatch cute chicks! congrats!

 

[Moosele]

Have just read my way through the 280+ pages and you lot have some great brids. Have kept some Marans since 2005 here in the UK, started with point of lay cuckoo marans, poor egg colour but from a well know breeder. Second batch copper black marans also point of lay, very poor egg colour again. All were just kept in the egg laying flock and not used to breed from.

Third and fourth lot were copper black, hatched from the best egg colour we could find. Then kept the best male from one batch and the best hens from the other hatch to create our own line. Our first batch of our own eggs went under a broody on Saturday and hopefully will hatch about the 6th of June.

We also found that they take a while to achieve the better coloured eggs, some of ours started at about a 1 one the French marans egg scale, but now in the second year they are generally a good 5 to a 6 ( will try and post some photos later)

It not just in USA where people are cashing in on the popularity by breeding substandard birds. People in the Uk are selling the curvee maran (hybrid) as a Copper black Marans and poor breeding/ lack of knowledge and an onlie auction site have a lot to answer for.

 

[GracefulBantams]

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Here are the chicks I hatched from okcarla's Cuckoo Marans eggs

I got 9 chicks out of 12 eggs

(and another two eggs fully developed but just did not hatch)

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a53/gracemccain/100_2717.jpg

great hatch cute chicks! congrats!

Thanks

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

Love the chicks they are soo cute!!!

 

[Krys109uk]

People in the Uk are selling the curvee maran (hybrid) as a Copper black Marans and poor breeding/ lack of knowledge and an onlie auction site have a lot to answer for.

Quite so.....I always thought that marans hybrid rather misleading & presumably deliberately so. They do those Sussex stars & what was it Bluebells or something? Quite a few misleading messes.

I moved from UK to US a few years ago. The French type marans, mostly copper blacks, were becoming popular & the wheatens had only two bloodlines in UK. I remember seeing birds that were obviously crosses from copper blacks being sold as supposedly purebreds.
The people at the British Marans Club are really nice & would help get good birds. Alan Heeks is the secretary & Derrie Watchhorn, on the Surrey Hampshire border, was very active & had some lovely birds, though last time I spoke with her there was talk of her moving to Oz.​

 

[tfpets]

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First welcome!! Thank you for another perspective on the issue of the scruples of folks who represent the breed as one thing and you find it diluted to something beyond what it should be - way beyond anything or anyones range of "standard" for either feather pattern or egg color. They dont have to be perfect, but they should at least be decent before a person represents them as a "sellable" or say a "retail" worthy product.
I wonder if there should be an "as advertised' clause within the egg color buying chart, or the future dark egg layers representation. (i.e. anticipate pullet shall lay between a 4-6 on the Marans color scale)...so, its not just a U. S. of A. issue!! Good luck in your endeavors, and congrats on your successes! Marans are worthy of your efforts, arent they? Pretty Pretty eggs!

 

[monarc23]

^^^ not just pretty eggs, WONDERFUL birds

The eggs weren't the selling point for me with this breed... however for me to consider them a breed I have to breed for atleast a 4 (but I expect way better than fours from my growing flock)

 

[old mill poultry]

I just got these eggs from a breeder on marans of america. The egg color chart conuses me a little. Can anyone comment on their color.

 

[old mill poultry]

I just ordered from jesse for chicks, not sure when they are coming. Ones that ordered from him "did you have a nice combination of roos and pullets?" Got any pics of your chicks and grown up birds of his?