Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

[Debbi]

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thank you as always don but how early can you tell?

Hey Randy, with other breeds I have had it show up soon as the wing feathers showed up around 2-3 weeks.

I've only had one bird here with split wing, but it showed up as soon as he started to feather, and at 9 months old it was still the same.

 

[berkeleysprings]

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thank you as always don but how early can you tell?

Hey Randy, with other breeds I have had it show up soon as the wing feathers showed up around 2-3
weeks.

thanks for the information the only fault that I encounter are in my own flock of birds. like yellow shanks which hopefully up cleared up already the number of points on the comb on the roosters in the cotton tail some of my roosters have some white
feathers in their wings what you don't notice it unless you open their wings I posted a picture
I will be the first 1 to admit some of the faults that my bird have
lol but split wing is not 1 of them. not yet anyway. I've had a closed clock for almost 5 years now
of wheaten marans and are a mixture of pure lines iand cross lines from davis and budy henery

 

[cukooformarans]

My original wheatens were from Nancy (Bargain). I ordered them through her website before I found out about BYC. They are 37 weeks old now. I don't know of any problems with split wing but there were problems with plumage color. If you're interested, you can look back on this thread. Of course, that was a while ago and I notified her of some of the color issues so she may have been able to clear those up. It will be interesting to see the progress of you guys birds! Best of wishes!
PS Lotsapaints, the one roo I got out of my bunch from Bargain turned out BTB. I found another roo nearby from her (another person who had ordered her eggs) and it was also BTB. You can find this in previous posts but since you mentioned it specifically. The hatch rate from her eggs was great and the eggs are a pretty chocolate color with nice size. (Mine recently started laying.) I also ended up with 1 roo and 10 hens which was nice (but will be culling all but three for the poor feather color *ie red hens with black dots among other things).

 

[berkeleysprings]

the hens pictured are almost five years amd in full winter feathers temps are in the 20s

 

[gootziecat]

Hi Randy,

Very nice birds.

 

[berkeleysprings]

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hey sandy thank you for the compliments wonderful talking to you the otherday

 

[Debbi]

Love the colors of your girls! Good job buddy!!

 

[berkeleysprings]

the thred is dead lol

 

[cukooformarans]

Randy,
The girl I got from you is getting prettier every day. I will try to take pictures this evening if I am not too late getting off of work.

I also now have at least 4 out of 7 wheaten hens laying from the original group. They are only about 10 months old now (calender is outside) ... lol

 

[berkeleysprings]

I am so glad to me she is a rare bird she is a early davis line while she was still working with them and I cross them with a buddy henry / ron presley line make sure you keep in touch when my 14 hens start laying again I will send you some more eggs 5 weeks now and I've got no eggs I hope to get a few more checks for my original davis rooster . but at 5 years old he's getting up there in age