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

[Wynette]

AHappyChick - LOVE love love your hens!!! VERY nice!

 

[Krys109uk]

I was flicking about yesterday evening. Looking at Marans on European websites.
I've noticed, often, in US Marans, the males look wrong. Their shape & stance is too narrow & too upright, like tubes. That's quite apart from colour issues.

I thought some might be interested to look at one or two of the marans I found.

(There are also some lovely pics of birds in shows but they're in amngst lots of other breeds).

http://www.gallinette.net/races/francaise/marans.htm

Someone's chopped his legs off, but he looks nice to me.

http://www.2ememain.be/a-donné-coq-marans-noir-63024596.html

Some nice ones on this forum:
http://www.gallinette.net/forum/showthread.php?t=18604

There are loads of lovely Marans on the internet with which to compare ones birds.

 

[verycherry]

3chickens said...

Beautiful... Mine are molting and have stopped laying. Kinda sad to look in the laying box and find nothing

I feel your pain, lol! My Wheaten hen hasn't laid in almost 3 weeks now. I took her last eggs, which she laid over the span of 10 to 14 days, and put them in the bator and hoped for the best anyway. They hatched this weekend, the day after I was without power for nearly the whole day. I couldn't believe they still hatched! I have 3 Wheaten (or Blue Wheaten or Splash Wheaten) chicks and one more bantam chick.

AHappychick...

Does anyone get eggs that are over a 6 on the chart? if so I would be very interested in buying some, but I have not seem many that dark, and those that advertise them dont seem to atrually send out ones that color using "late in the laying cycle as their excuse"

here's what I dont get, maybe someone could fill me in. But if you are breeding wouldnt you have up and comers each year after culling the non keepers, then each year wouldnt you have some new young girls laying? how is it people can claim their hens are late in the laying season when there should aways be newer younger ones to fill in their place?

Mine lay a speckled 5, or a solid (non-speckled) 5 to 6, but mine are Wheatens, not the darker BC eggs, and that's pretty much any time of the year. (going by the French egg color chart). Sure would love to find a 7 in the nest!

I always thought people who said their eggs lighten later in the season were meaning that they lighten towards the end of the LAYING SEASON, meaning the hotter summer months before fall....not sure if that's what they meant though.

I don't know, my eggs might have been slighter darker at the very beginning of the laying season, but if so, not much different at all. Not enough for me to really notice anyway.

Are those eggs in the cartoons yours? If so, those are nice!​

 

[verycherry]

Some nice ones on this forum:
http://www.gallinette.net/forum/showthread.php?t=18604

Love the Blue Copper on this page!!! Shouldn't he have more copper throughout the back and saddle area though? Looks like he's mostly blue. He's certainly a sturdy fellow!​

 

[millebantam]

Maybe it's just the angle of the photo, but it looks like there may be some "side sprigs" starting on his comb. It looks like there is the beginning of one on the side, about midpoint of the length of the comb.
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[verycherry]

Here's the most recent photo of my young Blue Wheaten cockerel. He may look a bit lanky to you too but he's young and still has a lot of time to fill out. His comb leans just a tad at the back, but was a lot worse during our extreme heat. It has almost completely straightened out as the weather has cooled off and as he's matured. Other than that, I think he's pretty handsome, but you guys tell me what you think. This is my first year to have Marans.

 

[Krys109uk]

Love the Blue Copper on this page!!! Shouldn't he have more copper throughout the back and saddle area though? Looks like he's mostly blue. He's certainly a sturdy fellow!

The copper blue doesn't seem to have as much copper as might be desirable. That particular link is a forum, much the same sort of thing as this forum, with people posting pics of their birds.

What is noticeable to me is that the general type &, for the most part, colour of the every day Marans people keep, in western EU, really look the part.​

 

[chickenherder]

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I really like the look of the rooster shown on that link.

He has that bulky stately look that I like so much in my Langshans which are supposed to be in the BC heritage.

Here is one of my young Langshans shown next to the French image BC.

I've also noticed more bulk at a younger age in my BC's from Bev Davis lines.

 

[millebantam]

Here's a pic of one of my young BCM roos. He is gaining color very slowly, and his saddles have reddened up quite a bit since this pic. He has that "bulky" type that I'm culling for.

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And this is one of my hens that also has that rounder, bulky, body type.

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[amazondoc]

Beautiful birds, Mille! What's the egg color like?