Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

[OldChurchEggery1]

Any of you eating your extra cockerels? What age do you usually butcher?

I plan to. With other breeds I've raised, I butchered around 25 weeks. It's later than some people would do it, but I like to give them time to flesh out more. I've got a Jersey Giant/Wheaten Marans cross cockerel that I'm going to put over some random hens to get layers/broilers. With those I might wait 'til 6 months because of the Giant blood.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Any one from Aussie here?

 

[Flowerbh]

Hi. I should have some next year. I am getting wheaten chicks in may so I will have to grow them out and work for my breeding stock. So hopefully there should be a few good started chicks looking for a home by this time of the year. (Started means several weeks old)

I am in northeast georgia, an hour north of Atlanta.

Hi, I live in Dawsonville, GA. Have a question about Wheaten Marans. I got eggs from a man at the Newnan show. They are suppose to be from the Bev Davis line. I have one yellow chick that hatched. It was born yellow but with black "spines" on the ends of its wings. Is this what I should have expected? It is only 4 days old, but the feathers are growing out white and black. Do I have a male? or do I need to wait a little more. I never had a wheaten marans and was surprised to see the black spines thru the yellow fuzz. Thanks for your opinions.

 

[Bangarang64]

Can you give us a picture? that would help a lot.
One look at a good picture and these folks could tell you if you have a Wheaten or not.

 

[berkeleysprings]

it's perfectly normal they all hatch and grow wing feathers like that. some hatch white some hatch yellow most of mine always have hatch yellow 75%
. you're too young 2 sex . in a few weeks you'll be able to tell
I have some luck going by the shape of the wing. the more rounded to me means a hen

 

[berkeleysprings]

 

[berkeleysprings]

the 1 in front is a rooster the 1 in back is a pullet is my guess on these 5 day old

 

[Daloorashens]

Thx for the pics, I was going to ask what color everyone's chicks were hatching out... yellow, white, yellow with dots on heads, etc?? Good tip on the wing shape, to, I will watch that and see what happens with mine=)

 

[Flowerbh]

Here is the chick I hatched last week. It was born with black spines in the wing area under all the yellow fuzz. It is suppose to be a Wheaten Marans. Can you tell sex yet? I got the eggs from a man who had entered his eggs in the Poultry show in GA.

 

[snowbird]

Here is the chick I hatched last week. It was born with black spines in the wing area under all the yellow fuzz. It is suppose to be a Wheaten Marans. Can you tell sex yet? I got the eggs from a man who had entered his eggs in the Poultry show in GA.

I fail to see anything out of the ordinary. Do you believe the black should not be in the wings, will eventually have black in the tail feathers also.