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

[Soaring Chicks]

Thank you. I really got lucky they are from McMurry. First year eggs. They~ Araucanas and CM's ~ will be 1 year old the 6th of June.
I hatched out what looks like a Blue Cuckoo from one of my EE eggs. Keeper male or female. To cute had to stay. She/he is named Blueberry. It got me wanting Blue Marans to cross w/ the CM's to see what I get. Next year I'll be hatching away!! I get the Blues and splashes in April.

Hubby building me 2 maybe 3 more coops. We will have CM/BBS pen,Wheaton Maran pen. I want some golden CM's to play with too.

Just for myself to see what I get. We will be culling the McMurry flock~ minus CM and Araucanas and hubbys GLW,SLW.

I have the BLRW and that is all of the Wyandottes I want for now. I find the Marans are easier for me to hatch and I really like the eggs. The only others I will be breeding is Lav Orps and Ex leghorns~ my sons, EE mix with Welsummers and 1 mutt chick hubby's again.

I have liked the Marans and knew that was my breed from the first. If things do not work out with the others I'll just have to sell them and get more Marans.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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I'm sorry to put a damper, but I think it is an average hatchery quality Marans egg - And does not qualify as a Marans egg. I'd probably call it a 3 on the scale.

these eggs most certainly Do qualify as Marans eggs !!! they are as good and somewhat better than some i'm seeing touted as BC Maran eggs !!!!(lol)
just because they don't have a big name slapped on them , but a hatchery name is no reason to trash something you apparently know little about !!! Do you know who Ideal(hatchery) got their Marans from ?? nonother than one of the Number 1 egg color Barred Marans breeders in the USA .

I don't think anyone was trying to offend. I have hatchery marans too and I love my hens but a couple of them do not lay an egg dark enough to be considered true marans' eggs either and one of them layed a much darker egg than that one in the photo when she first started laying (they lighten up as they get older). When someone asks breeders what they think of the egg color I suspect they really want to know the truth. As much as I love my girls that lay the same egg color as that one above I wouldn't breed them and call them pure marans. I do love the brown eggs with the freckles on them though. They are so cute! I swear they taste better too, especially in baked goods and custards!!!

 

[Bare bottom farm]

I just wanted to show my hatchery maran egg. I'm happy to have it and proud of my girl and her egg. and if it is on the scale than that makes me even better.

 

[geebs]

Barebottomfarm: that egg just makes the scale... I hope it holds it's color...

I got a hen from Mcmurray that was ALWAYS a 4 and it stayed that way... I got eggs from ideal and Welp and several other hatcheries to do the comparison to the quality birds I got from the top breeder... That has been more than two seasons ago... Ideal did okay but I think McMurray came in with the best overall... good color that held and a correct bird... Pumpkin orange eyes etc.. really nice birds. I am glad you jumped in the ring and shared your photo. Thanks. The hatcheries didn't have the same stock as far as body type and the egg color just cannot compete with the top breeders but for the money... It was a great deal... Congratulations on your first eggie!!! It is a cute egg... (I wonder if it even has a yolk)

Don't be shy now... post a pic of the hen that laid it.

 

[geebs]

marans (cuckoo) are considered barred in a cuckoo fashion...

 

[geebs]

She is showing off a hatchery bird... the same thing that interrups the color for barring interrupt for cuckoo... Not everyone here is a top breeder... If you cross it like it is a barred hen it responds like a barred hen... Some ppl refer to them as a barred cuckoo pattern... tom ATE to TomOTo...

http://sellers.kippenjungle.nl/page3.html There is more than one person that refers to it as Cuckoo barring.

 

[SunnyDawn]

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I'm glad you did post. Now I feel more comfortable showing pics of my hatchery girls. Here's my babies that I just picked up today...

Aren't they cute? I know the leg color is off on one and there is no feathering on the feet but I just love those dark eggs with the freckles all over!

Now a few weeks ago I also posted pics of some BC marans chicks that I had picked up from a breeder that swore they were of high quality purebred stock and someone on this thread noted that half of them did not have the right coloring. Now, although I love my hatchery gals, when I pay for purebred breeder stock and don't get it, that does upset me (not at you guys for telling me the truth but at the breeder for misrepresenting her birds). Since this is part of the learning process for me and you asked me to post picks in a few weeks so you could see feather development, here goes! Be honest, I'm a big girl, I can take it! They are just over 4 weeks old here.
#1 The two in the front, center are both from the same person and I was told they were BC marans.

#2 This pullet (hope, hope, hope) in the center is more like what I thought a true BC marans should look like. There is not as much beige color on the breast as the one in the first pick... The black ones on the left and right side of the pic are also from that breeder but they have almost no copper coloring and they are almost pure black with some white feathering here and there, mostly on the breast (I know you can't see much of the gal on the left but she looks just like the one on the right).

#3 Sorry it's such a bad pic but I just couldn't get this guy to come out in the open for me (I really did try). He's the one with the small head (not really that small just looks like it because of the angle) toward the right side of the pic. I assume it's a male because he has a lot of bright red feathers coming in (again very hard to see in the pic) on his neck and a few on his head but he has strong copper coloring on his back.

Well? Not such a great start for my first BC marans are they?

 

[amazondoc]

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I always get very excited by a first egg. Congratulations!

That egg is not very dark, BUT pullets often start to lay darker eggs over their first week or two of lay. So your girl may just be revving up her paint jets, you never know. And even if her eggs never get any darker, I always enjoy the speckled eggs myself!

 

[upthecreek]

Beautiful Chicks and Beautiful starters ..... can tell you take good care of them and your cages are very nice


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I'm glad you did post. Now I feel more comfortable showing pics of my hatchery girls. Here's my babies that I just picked up today...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/41069_new_cuckoo_marans_babies.jpg

Aren't they cute? I know the leg color is off on one and there is no feathering on the feet but I just love those dark eggs with the freckles all over!

Now a few weeks ago I also posted pics of some BC marans chicks that I had picked up from a breeder that swore they were of high quality purebred stock and someone on this thread noted that half of them did not have the right coloring. Now, although I love my hatchery gals, when I pay for purebred breeder stock and don't get it, that does upset me (not at you guys for telling me the truth but at the breeder for misrepresenting her birds). Since this is part of the learning process for me and you asked me to post picks in a few weeks so you could see feather development, here goes! Be honest, I'm a big girl, I can take it! They are just over 4 weeks old here.
#1 The two in the front, center are both from the same person and I was told they were BC marans.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/41069_bc_marans2.jpg
#2 This pullet (hope, hope, hope) in the center is more like what I thought a true BC marans should look like. There is not as much beige color on the breast as the one in the first pick... The black ones on the left and right side of the pic are also from that breeder but they have almost no copper coloring and they are almost pure black with some white feathering here and there.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/41069_bcmarans2blue_orps.jpg
#3 Sorry it's such a bad pic but I just couldn't get this guy to come out in the open for me (I really did try). He's the one with the small head (not really that small just looks like it because of the angle) toward the right side of the pic. I assume it's a male because he has a lot of bright red feathers coming in (again very hard to see in the pic) on his neck and a few on his head but he has strong copper coloring on his back.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/41069_img_3895.jpg

Well? Not such a great start for my first BC marans are they?

 

[geebs]

Wow... nice change of Scenery sunnydawn... Lovely hatchery birds. (My favorite bird is a hatchery bird)... Do we love them less because they don't have a pedigree or fancy breeder?.....NOT!!!