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

[amazondoc]

You asked about hens --

I do have some BC hens, but I don't know if I"ll be breeding them with these guys. I got these fellas to breed with my splash coppers, and *possibly* to add into my birchen and blue birchen project. The hens in the flock these cockerels came from lay an INTENSELY dark egg -- I saw one in person, and it was the darkest egg I've ever seen in real life -- and it would be nice to work that trait into the birchens. We'll See.

 

[drom]

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Good to hear someone is working on the Birchens! They are just such beautiful birds.

 

[amazondoc]

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Ohhhhh, MUCH better breeders than I are working on birchens. I'm just dabbling.

 

[Krys109uk]

Congrats on our new males; they look nice.

Nice copper colour. I can't see them close up as my internet is being difficult (archaic service in bad weather.

). I prefer the male on the right slightly. I can see why you like the combs, again I slightly prefer the male on the right.
The copper colour in marans & the nice red of Welsumers is caused by the mahogany gene on gold.

 

[Germaine_11.20]

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I really hate to ask this because I just asked a little bit ago. But your Roo with the number two underneath it has the same pinkish legs that a few of mine do.
You just bought him, so does this mean you aren't too worried about the color?

 

[amazondoc]

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They do both have very light legs. This may or may not be related to the shafting in their breast feathers, since both traits might possibly indicate a lack of melanizers. But no, in general I am not terribly worried about their leg color. So long as it is not yellow or black, I can live with it.

I am much more worried about the white in their tail feathers and the shafting in the breasts!

 

[Germaine_11.20]

Oh my goodness, thank you for answering me. I need to get my Roos with the pinkish legs out of the cull pen tomorrow!!!!!

 

[drom]

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I really hate to ask this because I just asked a little bit ago. But your Roo with the number two underneath it has the same pinkish legs that a few of mine do.
You just bought him, so does this mean you aren't too worried about the color?

Hi there,
You may have already gone through this but here is the clarification from the French site:

Tarsi : average size, with some feathers white or lightly pink coloured for all the varieties except for the BLACK, BROWN-RED and BIRCHEN Marans
where grey or dark grey is permitted, although not preferred, for both sexes. Four long and well separated toes with the outer one sparsely feathered.
The claws are white or horn- coloured.

 

[amazondoc]

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Yeah, we did that a coupla pages back. Just to make things more confusing, though, the French version of the French standard does not match the English translation of the French standard. In the original French, the legs of the BC SHOULD be varying shades of gray. Also, gray is required in the proposed APA standard.

 

[drom]

Oh, yea weird. However if you read the section on the hens in the variety page they discuss it in a little more detail. It says they accept the more or less dark color particularly of the hens feet, but it is clearly normal for the roosters to have much lighter legs and feet. And, if you look at the pictures of the roosters they have on the variety page for the for the Brown-red, they have fairly light legs and in one case, there is a picture of a brown-red rooster with pretty darn pink colored legs.