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

[amazondoc]

Thanks!

 

[cthrash1]

These babies are one week old today... They were shipped eggs from Sebrightmom. She sent me 8 eggs and my broody hatched all 8... 100% hatch on shipped eggs. They are black copper and blue copper and I got one beautiful wheaten out of the hatch... Hope it's a girl. I love the Brown ones. Ended up with two of the but the one in the first pic is the brownest.

looks like this little blue on is gonna be a boy

This one is precious

 

[berkeleysprings]

some better taken pictures of the eggs my first generation davis hen and hennery hens lay taken outside , and kinda cloudy. could someone guess the color ?at least a 4 i hope lol or not

hears a hen 2 months old from a cross of breeders and she seems to be feathering ok

hears the hen and a roo

this is a picture of a roo with his leg extended out far , i was wondering would this be to much leg feathering ?

 

[NateDomRIR]

Kathyinmo,

Thanks for the pic of your beautiful Blue Marans roo. I have a Blue Jersey Giant roo that was a very light blue. He is a year old and starting to molt on his head and the feathers look darker. I hope so.

Pinkchick,

Thanks for the pic of your beautiful dark Black Copper Marans roo. I just got a dark Blue Ameraucana roo like him and I was wondering what kind of chicks he will produce with my Black hens. Did you get any light blue chicks? Thanks for the info.

Anyone else have a nice blue black copper Marans rooster that they would like to share?

 

[Illia]

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Those look like a 5, maybe a 4.

As for the adult birds - How old are those?

 

[drom]

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This is the F1 generation from a cross between unrelated birds, correct? So, if the eggs you originally got from the breeders were darker than these, it could just be that you lost a bit of your egg color in the first generation due to the cross. The good thing about Wheatens is that you don't have to deal with the same issues as the Black Coppers and you are free to concentrate on selecting for egg color and focus primarily on that. So, if I were you, I would only set the darkest ones and then breed the offspring back to the parents either with Resolution's method or the one Bev Davis gave you.
The other thing you could try if you want to set up an experiment in a different pen, is get a Wheaten Rooster who came from a very, very dark egg out of a Black Copper clutch. Breed him to a pure Wheaten pullet and see what the color eggs the offspring produce. You could maybe breed the resulting pullets back to the pure Wheaten pullet's father and any roosters back to the mother.

maybe it wouldn't work if you didn't breed back to the Wheaten Rooster from the dark egg. You might want to ask Bev Davis about that. I am sure she knows what you should breed the offspring back to if you try a cross like that.

 

[drom]

So, I had 5 eggs which didn't end up hatching in my hatch this month and I took them out of the incubator today. I opened them up and 4 of them had fully developed Black Copper chicks in them. I'm kinda bummed.

I think I could have maybe hatched 18 out of 19 but, I made some mistakes using the incubator for the first time. Next time, I am going to leave them in the incubator instead of opening it a lot to move them to the brooder. So, my Black Copper to Wheaten ratio is closer to 90% Black Copper and 10% Wheaten, which suggests to me that probably just one of my hens produced the Wheaties. So next time, besides not opening the incubator up during lockdown

, I am going to mark the eggs with the hens identity. I hope the ones I lost weren't pullets

 

[drom]

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I have a question for you. How and when do you sex Wheaten chicks?

 

[Illia]

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I have a question for you. How and when do you sex Wheaten chicks?

I believe at a month of age, or when the chick actually feathers out well - The pullet will have light brown feathers coming in, and the cockerel will have reds and blacks (or blues) That part is kinda obvious, but at the really young stage - look for truly black primaries in a cockerel, and lighter, more brown primaries for a pullet.

 

[geebs]

that is great Drom... you can separate them by hen and label them... and then you know which one throw the wheatie.. or if it is the roo....

That is very practical... that bator with the partitions.

I already mark my eggies for which hen and which roo.... It is really complicated for record keeping but it makes me feel good that I know what I have.. now to see what it produces... again.

I am saddened that one of my roos was humanely euthanized today... He got in the wrong pen... (I had him on the porch treating him for an eye injury and one of the kids put him in the wrong pen... He got in a fight and was mortally wounded.. My other roo is likely to recover..

I did love Leopold... his babies are the new hatched babies... (I am glad I hatched them for next year).... ... It was a good call to incubate them now or I wouldn't have his great genetics... He was very correct especially in his copper balance... DRAT!!