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

[4kidZ]

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My sentiments exactly. There is a very prolific breeder of BCM bantams in Cali. If you are interested, I will search through my emails to find them.

 

[ThePolishPrincess]

When do Marans begin to lay? My Cuckoo girl is approx. 5 months old-as of a few days ago. And she just started squatting for me last week.

 

[drom]

It's so exciting getting the first eggs from a Marans pullet

I think 5 to 5 1/2 months is really common. Just like any other bird

 

[drom]

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Nice eggs-be sure and post some pictures of your birds too

 

[drom]

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My sentiments exactly. There is a very prolific breeder of BCM bantams in Cali. If you are interested, I will search through my emails to find them.

There are some teeny-weenie dark eggs in all the pictures posted at the MCC site of the egg show in IL earlier this month. Super dark actually. Do you know whose eggs those were? They looked like the darkest ones there.

 

[pinkchick]

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My sentiments exactly. There is a very prolific breeder of BCM bantams in Cali. If you are interested, I will search through my emails to find them.

I would love to have the breeders name or email. I would be very interested in Bantam BCM's. Thanks!

 

[Zgoatlady]

I love it.
I have BC Marans and my husband thought I was crazy for paying what I did on eggs and birds.
Now everyday he's the first one to run and look at the eggs. He was the first one to bring in our two eggs. Now we are getting around 9-11 a day.
The whole family go into the kitchen and look a them and talk about the color.
When I figure out how to post some pictures I will, some are really nice and dark some are not. some are half and half what is that about. Ive even had a few if they are wet they are really dark kind of like they have a coating on them.
I do love the girls and boys, and so does my family.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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They do have a coating on them. Marans are different from most chickens in that the egg forms as a white egg and the color is actually deposited as the egg is laid by glands in the oviduct. If you catch an egg right after it's laid, before it dries, you can actually wipe the color right off (but who would want to). The color can vary greatly even with the same hen. Here's a great link for info on Marans.
http://marans.atspace.com/maranspage3.html

 

[pinkchick]

Just thought that I would bump my favorite thread!

 

[millebantam]

Well. since you're bumping, lol, here are some of this mornngs eggs

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