NEW Marans Thread!

[snowbird]

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Hi Shay20,

What's a chocolate Marans??

A maran that carrys the chocolate coloring geene, the 3 i have you can see the color, they look like a regular cuckoo Maran but with the chocolate coloring in them.
I am double checking with the lady who i got them from to make sure i got teh right color in my mind, lol

Is it possible to post a picture.

 

[shay20]

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A maran that carrys the chocolate coloring geene, the 3 i have you can see the color, they look like a regular cuckoo Maran but with the chocolate coloring in them.

I don't believe that Marans carry a chocolate gene? I may be well wrong there saying that! Got any pics??

I am aksing th eone i got them from to make sure im thinking of the right color, i took a few pics th eother day i will downlaod them now.

 

[Debbi]

Hi Don! Glad you found us here.

Do you know what Shay20 is talking about when she says a "chocolate gene"? I see she says Cuckoo, could it be it came from a BCM or maybe it's a Golden Cuckoo?

 

[snowbird]

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I was thinking Golden cuckoo.

 

[shay20]

I will have to take new pics tomorow, for some dumb reason my pics did not come out.

 

[La Mike]

Ok not great pics but hoping ya'll can see them











They are thumbnail pics click to see full pic

 

[shay20]

When she gets back to me i will let you know if am right or mistaken.

 

[Debbi]

lamike ~

They are both very dark in coloring in the saddle area from what I can see. They should have saddle coloring to match their hackles. Hackles are the neck feathers, saddle is the back area. How old are they? Better and larger pics would help too.

 

[snowbird]

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Are they feather leg Marans or clean leg. What I see on males is a Mahogany Hackle one and a Copper hackle one. The proposed standard calls for the Copper hackle. I also see a couple of nice copper hackle females. The mostly Black females can be used as breeders as long as they are bred to a male that has some copper on the chest.

 

[La Mike]

They are not too laying age but getting close
I got them from some one here
They do have growing to do mainly wanting to know about the hackle color (Thanks for telling me what its actually called lol)
I really like the darker red hackle