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

[tdgill]

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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.

looking for my pantone color chart and my printers bible...lol
http://www.d-zignsinc.com/view/pantone.html
of course with different computer monitors that are not calibrated, colors can vary...
my cuckoo is laying pms 1385

 

[amazondoc]

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Unfortunately he is squirrel tailed, and waaaaaaaaaaay too red. If you keep him, do it for his personality -- not his looks.

Here's a reasonably good wheaten rooster:

 

[amazondoc]

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looking for my pantone color chart and my printers bible...lol
http://www.d-zignsinc.com/view/pantone.html
of course with different computer monitors that are not calibrated, colors can vary...
my cuckoo is laying pms 1385

Ya know you can't do it from a computer monitor. Ya gotta have the real chart in hand.....

 

[amazondoc]

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Unfortunately, there are waaaay too many people breeding Marans who know nothing more about Marans than leg feathers and dark eggs. So they select based first on leg feathering. I can't even tell you all the ads I've seen selling Marans or eggs that proudly state "nice heavy leg feathering", or something similar. They have no clue about light or sparse feathering.

edited 'cause I can't type...

 

[Birch Run Farm]

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?

Yes, it seems to be a common problem in marans. If you plan to breed cull him, find a home for him, etc and replace him with a properly built bird.​

 

[pinkchick]

Here are some eggs that just went in for the bator for a test hatch to see what a I get out of my younger Blue Copper Roo. He is in with 3 BC pullets and one Splash pullet that I don't use for breeding because of their sparsely feathered shanks....but my Bl- Copper Roo has wonderfully feathered shanks, so here's hoping for decent feathering and a good amount of blue and splash babies.

The eggs with the pink arrows are my Wellie eggs.. and the egg with the purple arrow is from my BR x Splash Marans pullet and of course the Marans eggs, and to top it off some EE's.

 

[tdgill]

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looking for my pantone color chart and my printers bible...lol
http://www.d-zignsinc.com/view/pantone.html
of course with different computer monitors that are not calibrated, colors can vary...
my cuckoo is laying pms 1385

Ya know you can't do it from a computer monitor. Ya gotta have the real chart in hand.....

You mean if I have photoshop on my pc, and have properly calibrated a good monitor, and send color print jobs to the printer guys in town, and used pantone's site instead of the one i linked to - that wouldnt be close enough?

 

[amazondoc]

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I'll rephrase: most people won't be able to do it from their monitors, so it's a bad idea to give John Q Public the idea that it's an easy thing to do.

 

[marquisella]

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The sparse or light feathered shanks are more correct than heavily feathered ones. Marans aren't supposed to be heavily feathered, so your hens are probably correct for breeding.

 

[kathyinmo]

This is one of the Marans I hatched with the all black face ...