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

[SunnyDawn]

Awwwwwwww... SO CUTE!!!!!

 

[Freckle Face Farm]

TinyBirds Those are some cuties!!!

 

[berkeleysprings]

i just wanted to take a second and say that 99 percent of the people here are verry nice and friendly and go out of there way to be helpful with questions about beginner stuff or advanced , if someone asked "what end the food goes in on the chicken and what end the poop comes out " 99.9 percent will tell ya with out any hesatation or riticule and so if something i said sounded like i scolded any one...... well get over it and please dont private message me because i wont private message anything at all
that i wouldent post to every one so ..... i will always be a beginner and i think thats what this site is about enjoy your day and your birds and no PM,s please

 

[Illia]

Excellent photos, adorable chicks!!

Well, looks like my eggs from Wynette are developing at 50% fertility.

The sad part is that my favorite egg I like to show off is a dud, and actually to my surprise has a crack in it.

 

[Bare bottom farm]

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Your babies are sooooo cute!!

 

[Bare bottom farm]

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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, 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).
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?

I'm new chickens I have only had them for 7 months so I don't no anything about breeding and stuff. BUt your babies are so cute. Best of luck with them!!

 

[adoptedbyachicken]

Folks I have cleaned this thread of some nasty replies, and of repies to those replies. Please remind yourselves of the rules of BYC which include that all posts shall be friendly and courteous to all members at all times. Even if you have something negative to say you feel you must say about a bird or it's egg it can be said in a friendly positive and educational informative way.

Some here need to work on their delivery, and some here need to use the report button rather than the reply button. Please do not repy to nastiness, it just promotes more of of it, and makes the clean up larger.

Thanks for your attention to this. Back to your regularly scheduled chickens.

 

[pinkchick]

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Well said and thanks for bringing this to attention. I love this thread, I would be very sad to see anything happen to it. I learn so much from this thread and I am very thankful for everyone that posts and shares here.

 

[geebs]

Very sweet!!!

 

[sunket77]

These are my new babies 2 out of 19 eggs and I got these 2 little ones out of all of them...

this ones wings are growing out really fast compared to the other one I hope there isn't anything wrong...

going by what I just learned about using the wings to tell the sex I may have got a roo and a hen!!