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

[4kidZ]

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Wait until you get one that is so GINORMOUS and globular, you can't tell which end is down! I get 1 from their cousins about every other day!. It's so weird. I am partial to the freckles, and I have a bcm that lays a lighter (about a 6) w/ freckles one time, and the next, she lays a 6-7 I have a picture that I need to dig out to post of her 2 eggs laid back to back.
And my cuckoos laid nearly a 5 on the charts their first 2 weeks of laying, then they laid soft shelled for about 3 days, now their eggs are barely as dark as a brown egg from the store! Sometimes PINK!! It's a trip. But, at least I know what the egg looked like that they came from!

~4kidZ
~Fluffy Butt Farms

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

~4kidZ
~Fluffy Butt Farms

They are so globular it is amazing I love the color the pics don't do it justice...

Cant wait for my DH too see them...

They are very sweet birds alot more friendly then my BCM's...
Hummmm!! wonder what I might want next!!!

 

[4kidZ]

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Hmmm---Could it be...BLUE BIRCHENS?? 1 more month, maybe! Blue Belle & Pappa Smurf are theeeeeeeee sweetest couple in my back yard. They could ONLY make even sweeter babies

I can't wait.

Be sure to get a pic of your hubby when he sees he made your dreams come true!

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

(LOL)

 

[CHICKEN little 1]

Finally an egg from my Marans!

It's seems like forever to get an first egg. I'am pleased For some reason the pic looks lighter than the actual egg. Maybe the flash? Awh who cares? It's still a pretty egg!

 

[4kidZ]

That's great Chicken Little! Nice reddish brown - GREAT for your first egg. Congrats. You must be beside yourself...as the song goes, "The waiting is the hardest part".

oh---and just a tip: The best egg pics are taken outside or on a windowsill with NATURAL light...NO flash! Flash changes the color tone, too

*edit* photo tip

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

CHICKEN little Congrates!!!! Looks great for a first egg...

 

[CHICKEN little 1]

Thanks guys! It's been awhile since I've been on this thread. I kidda lost track of it. I see some new members,and some that's been here from the beginning,

Glad to see everyone is still helping eachother out here trying to improve the breed,sharing info,and thoughts. It's a good thing.

 

[Mary Of Exeter]

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Which would be..?

There isn't any way on earth I could spell that phonetically, but this link will allow you to hear it, if you hit the little sound icon. http://www.dictionarist.com/marans

My husband speaks French, but with a British accent, if you can imagine that, so around here, it comes out sounding a bit softer than that.

This probaby isn't all that helpful, since no one that I know pronounces it this way- it's more like Muh-Rans' in the US.

I've taken French, so I knew this was the way to pronounce it, but you gotta admit, muh-ran is easier to say than saying mah-rone. Plus the majority of the US would know what you're talking about right off the bat. Much like D'Uccles. I know it's doo-cluh. But most people know them as doo-clay and dee-ucle, LOL.
I do try to say Maran though, instead of with the 's', unless I'm talking about more than one. Simply because in French, you don't pronounce the 's'

So most Americans are double wrong, haha.

 

[TammyTX]

These are a little darker than the first ones I posted but not as dark brown as I had hoped. They are from McMurray so, eh...I won't complain.

The photo was taken w/o a flash under "natural" florescent lights. What do you think the darkest two on the left would rate on a chart?

The dark egg at the bottom as light colored speckles which I thought were pretty, too.