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

[nivtup]

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Feather color looks off to me, more of a black tailed buff coloration.

A cockeral of that size should have a lot more black in the wings and breast.

I will try to post pics later.

 

[Resolution]

Beautiful friendly bird no doubt!

 

[Germaine_11.20]

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Are you serious?

That's what I get for trying to be cute..

We have an issue around here, there are eating eggs, and there are "Eggs with potential". We have a very hard time eating any of the "eggs with potential", they seem to end up in the bator almost every time.

I would look at that egg and think "Inside there is probably a chick that will grow to be a hen with perfect confimation and coloring that lays a #9 egg throughout her cycle." if I eat an egg like that, with all of that potential inside, I will always think..............What if?


I will go hide again

You don't need to hide! I enjoy a good joke! And if i was thinking straight you would have never got that one past me!! I appreciate all the great information that we can learn here but humor adds alot of enjoyment to these posts. Don't stop.

 

[Birch Run Farm]

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He looks a bit squirrel tailed to me.

 

[berkeleysprings]

its to bad we cant take the marans color chart to the local paint store and find a range of dark to light in paint store numbers .....
my hen lays a Duron paints flat number 12089337642648----
lol lol
correct me if im wrong
funny or not so ?

 

[countrylife]

WOWHOO I have got eggs 2 and 3





They are a lot darker than these photos show, I tried with and without flash!!

 

[tdgill]

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hilariously so!

 

[thechickonthehill]

Feather color looks off to me, more of a black tailed buff coloration.

A cockeral of that size should have a lot more black in the wings and breast.

I will try to post pics later.

Thanks nivtup, pics of correct coloring would be very helpful. I am trying to decide whether to keep him or send him to freezer camp.

Birch Run Farm - "squirrel tailed" means that the angle of his tail is too vertical?​

 

[thechickonthehill]

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"Legburns"!

That is hilarious! I can't wait to share that term with my daughter.

 

[amazondoc]

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No joke. We need to match egg colors with the Pantone color chart (the official color standard used by the paint industry). The araucana club has a somewhat similar standardized chart with many tints on it. But it would be work to really match all those tints up, and expensive to print em up.