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

[brn325]

the hen in the first shot is 3 years old. she is in the middle of the other shot with 2 pullets she hatched last year

 

[drom]

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Those eggs sure are pretty Ruth

 

[elless]

Hi
We just hatched out 6 Blue Copper Marans chicks and I'm wondering if there is a way to tell sex on them with coloring or wing feathers? Please see photo, I'll add more tomorrow.
Thanks, Lisa

 

[COChickens]

I just took some new pictures of some of my Blue coppers marans and I'm really starting to fall in love with them and they are laying a darker egg than my Black Copper Marans.

 

[amazondoc]

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You mean blue copper EEs, right?

People are already getting confused about Marans varieties, and some folks (like on ebay, for instance) are being very careless about the labeling on what they sell. We need to be as accurate as we can be with what we call these birds.

 

[fowlrus]

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So happy for you Tsagirl, the eggs I sent were few month into the laying cycle, it gets bit lighter as compare to when they first lay.
Very few that lay pretty consistence color through out their laying cycle but most of them do lighten up some as their lay, color usually pick up again after break.

fowlrus/Angie - Schertz, TX Home of the showgirl silkie and marans

 

[pinkchick]

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I posted the question on the MCC Forum as well and no one answered there either

Drom.....We have an answer! The front one counts as a point but the back one (the blade) ) does not count. Thank You Hinkjc!

 

[ruth]

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You mean blue copper EEs, right?

People are already getting confused about Marans varieties, and some folks (like on ebay, for instance) are being very careless about the labeling on what they sell. We need to be as accurate as we can be with what we call these birds.

Oops - yes, you are correct. I guess a better name for them would be Blue Copper EEs. I don't plan on breeding them for sale - I just wanted to get some darker, olive-colored eggs.

However, except for the ones that have muffs (some do, some don't), they look exactly like the Blue Copper Marans I bought from Whitmore Farms. In fact, I can't tell the difference in some of them so I guess I better leg band the ones from Whitmore before they get too mixed up together.

So, I have a question, for all who are posting pics of their Blue Copper Marans - what were they bred with to get the blue coloring?

 

[cottagegarden]

The Blue Coppers at Whitmore Farm came from Mari Krebs, I dont know what line Bev started with for Blues.There are 9 recognized colors in the French Standard: Cuckoo, Golden Cuckoo, Black, Birchen, Black Copper, Wheaton, Black-tailed Buff, White and Columbian; other colours not officially recognized (such as Blue Copper) also exist. Black Copper and Cuckoo are the most common of these. We imported these colors, they already existed. I think we can assume along the way other breeds were mixed in for egg color or type but now we have to pull them up to standard and stay true to form.

"So, I have a question, for all who are posting pics of their Blue Copper Marans - what were they bred with to get the blue coloring?"

Ruth, the answer to that is they are bred with Blue or Black Copper Marans(or Splash even), they are compatible. Your blue laying blue EE, your Marans, and your Olive laying EE that is a cross between the two should have different combs AND different leg colors so between that and egg color you should be able to tell them apart.

"My "next" generation of B.C. Marans, including the Blue Copper Marans bred from a blue EE hen and a Black Copper roo have just started laying. The Blue Copper Marans are really pretty and now they are laying beautiful olive eggs."

Although they look similar to a Blue Copper they arent a Marans laying an Olive egg.
Marans need to lay at least a 4 on the color chart of brown eggs.
Im just clarifying that for people new to the breed.​

 

[amazondoc]

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The blue trait has existed within the Marans breed for a long time, and it's being bred in France as well as here. There's no need to breed out to anything else.