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

[geebs]

penedesenca.... You will run across the marans crossed with them from time to time... This is probably a case... whether the owner knows it or not...It certainly looks like a cross... the dark egg... penes I would bet.

 

[tgcole]

I have a question on Wheaten leg color. In my flock, all the adult Roos have pink legs while the hens all have light grey legs. Is this typical? I'm into 3rd generation from Wade Jeane birds, and so far it has not varied. Why does the pink only show up in the roos????

Greg

 

[Byrdj]

I'm not a genetics guru but it's a sex linked thing. It's the same reason cuckoo marans roosters are lighter than cuckoo hens, and why it's easier to get the nice reddish bay eye color in BC Marans roosters than in BC Marans hens.

 

[drom]

I don't have the Wheatens, but my BCM hen's legs are much darker than the Roos. A couple of my pullets legs look practically black and all my Roo's legs are light.

 

[pasofinofarm]

Lookie what we are doing this morning!

Oh and an example of those white wing tips at hatch.

Here are the parent birds

 

[kathyinmo]

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Dawn, What do you mean? I haven't heard this before. The hotter the heat during incubation, or the heat of the weather?

 

[keithallen1965]

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Pasofino, Those are some great looking Marans chicks you have there, If you dont have any place to put them just call and ill pick them up from you, LOL

By the way, those white wing tips are standard on most all of the chicks I have hatched from your eggs and most all of the lines I have hatched from. I did hear someone on BYC say they had never seen this before!

By the way here are my hatch from four days ago. 5 blues and 5 Blacks

 

[pbjmaker]

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Do the wheatens have pink and or grey legs from hatch? It would be great if you could sex them this way!

 

[tgcole]

Do the wheatens have pink and or grey legs from hatch? It would be great if you could sex them this way!

As best I remember, all wheaten chicks had light pinkish legs. I never really paid much attention, but I'll be hatching again in a month or so. You can sex wheatens at hatch. The roos have darker wings while the hens tend to be all yellow with maybe just a bit of brown on their wingtips.

Here's a roo. They don't all have that much wing color, but significantly more than the little pullets.

Here's a fresh hatched little roo with his BC cousins.

Greg

 

[pbjmaker]

Well then looking at the one surviving potentially pure wheaten - it's a girl! The other one passed last night, she had a hard time hatching and I think there were some internal issues. Do you think this one might be a pure roo? He is more golden colored:

The surviving chick of these two is the one in front:

This one I think is part BC but not pure because his/her tummy is blue not yellow: