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

[nivtup]

What is your egg color like on the blacks?

We were hoping to piddle aroung a bit working towards blacks. We have one black hen, and a hetro barred roo. Breeding should produce some black stock to play with. Egg color is questionable at this point, as the black pullet is not laying.

Throw some feathers on the shanks and tada......

OK, maybe in a few years.

 

[onthespot]

The original clean legged blacks started out laying nice, deep red/brown eggs.

But now they are laying just a tan egg. I crossed this roo on the black hens

and got a couple black feathere legged girls, one very nice one with feathered shanks and orangey/reddish eyes. She has just started to lay this week and I am happy enough with the color of her eggs. I will be watching her to see how the color holds. If it is faded out in three months, I think I will scratch working with that line.

 

[ruth]

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Beautiful eggs - I wish you a great hatch. Unfortunately, not a single egg I got from her developed at all. I've spoken with at least one other person who bought eggs from her, off E-Bay, at the same time I did, and they had the same results and they too have been hatching eggs for years.

 

[ninjapoodles]

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That is just about my favorite rooster I've seen on this entire thread.

 

[dun chick]

Very nice looking rooster.

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

So many pretty birds and so many pretty eggs!

I'm looking for about a dozen french marans hatching eggs. I'm not too particular on what color the birds are, I just want the darkest eggs (which from what I gather, BC marans seem to lay the darker ones?). Can anyone help me?

 

[havi]

I bought some BCM eggs from Nancy(bargin) and they were a nice dark color. I also got 3 Welsummer eggs and one of them was just a dark as the BCM eggs. I was really impressed. I cant wait for them to hatch.

 

[onthespot]

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Thanks! He is my favorite too... He is so gentle and sweet. When he was younger and in a mixed grow out pen an older roo kicked him in the chest and sent him tumbling off a five foot roost and he dislocated his breastbone cartilage from the bone. It healed back, kind of crooked. For a long time he couldn't breed a hen. Now he can if they comply. So... what I have to do is just let the meanie that hurt him stay with the hens and "school" them, and then let the good one breed them for a week, then the hens get too tough for him and I have to let the meanie in again to train the hens down so that the good roo can cover them again... I know it is a stank situation, because now I won't know which eggs are his. The reason I knew he was the daddy of the black x eggs was because he was the only featherleg that got to go in that pen. he was there for a week, the hens were easy, and the quality jump in the first generation was just undeniable. For only having chickens a year, the learning curve has been steep and short. Getting this roo hurt was one of my worst mistakes and I have made plenty, lemme tell you.

Edit to add... If I really really want to know which are his, I can put a splash Ameraucana roo in there to school the girls. Worst I end up with is some blue based olive eggers, what the heck! Anything that hatches out black based would have to be from the good roo.

 

[drom]

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Very Nice eggs

Be sure to post some pictures of your chicks

 

[drom]

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He is a gorgeous rooster for sure. Nice egg too from your black marans! I didn't know the black ones laid that dark.