Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

[berkeleysprings]

oh darn , your gunna remember my name when i attend a show im busted , yer gunna make me pee in a cup , but you wont be the first judge to make me do that lol i was borne in the 60s, just kidding , im safe as long as you all dont do a colonsocophy
or check dental records on the chickens

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Randy......I can smell a white feather on a wheaten chicken. We look at every part of the bird from head to toes. Some of us even check the toe nail color.

Walt

 

[fowlman01]

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Randy......I can smell a white feather on a wheaten chicken. We look at every part of the bird from head to toes. Some of us even check the toe nail color.

Walt


Yes, I have your number Randy and I don't need anything in a cup. I was living in San Francisco in the 60's. I check the birds pretty well, but I won't be doing any of the things you mentioned.

Memo to self: Write Randy's name in my Red Book.

Walt

 

[berkeleysprings]

Well Walt , it sounds as if u all go to great extent in order to be sure of the judgment is sound and correct and I cant wait to go to a show some day and or enter a show some day I know many many people are secerious breeders and it means the workl to them so I don’t mean to poke fun on show judging poultry , just having fun ,its my personality, life is fun lol any way hears a question , are chickens judged on temperament or how well u can handle them ? the reason I ask is I got a silkiee that bites the cowboy do out of u when u reach for him but my big marans are sweet as can b




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Yes, I have your number Randy and I don't need anything in a cup. I was living in San Francisco in the 60's. I check the birds pretty well, but I won't be doing any of the things you mentioned.

Memo to self: Write Randy's name in my Red Book.

Walt

 

[fowlman01]

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Yes, I have your number Randy and I don't need anything in a cup. I was living in San Francisco in the 60's. I check the birds pretty well, but I won't be doing any of the things you mentioned.

Memo to self: Write Randy's name in my Red Book.

Walt


A judge does not have to judge a mean bird, but what can a Silky do to ya? I get bit all the time, but if it is a 8lb bird that wants to kill me I might not take it out. It depends on what breed it is. A Marans is not going to be very fast, so I just put my hand on the top of the cage and when he looks up he is out of the cage before he knows what is going on. I usually know when a bird is going to be a problem....also know when an exhibitor is going to be a problem.....that's why you are in my Red book.

I think you would like going to a show, even if you don't show anything. It is a good place to meet nice people that share the same hobby. They also don't look down on leftover hippies.

Walt

 

[berkeleysprings]

welp its been a pleasure talking to ya walt but i got a hot date with a young chick and by chick i mean girlfriend of 4 years that happens to be 19 years younger than me or let me say it like this my hammer is 3 years older then her (bunch a jokes there ) but shes a girl and loves the country dancing and i like to watch girls , so thats my evening. in summery if u are at a show and u see a creepy looking hippie guy getting to close to what appears to be his daughter holding a wheaten marans
well thata b me
sincerly randy
lol

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A judge does not have to judge a mean bird, but what can a Silky do to ya? I get bit all the time, but if it is a 8lb bird that wants to kill me I might not take it out. It depends on what breed it is. A Marans is not going to be very fast, so I just put my hand on the top of the cage and when he looks up he is out of the cage before he knows what is going on. I usually know when a bird is going to be a problem....also know when an exhibitor is going to be a problem.....that's why you are in my Red book.

I think you would like going to a show, even if you don't show anything. It is a good place to meet nice people that share the same hobby. They also don't look don't on leftover hippies.

Walt

 

[VillageChicken]

Sorry, late to the game on this thread, just hatched 3 wheaten marans, so started working through this thread as well.
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Beautiful egg color............Are you saying those are from Blues? Is that Blue Copper, Blue Wheaton, or straight Blues? I am not into Blues yet but sure do love your egg color....
Karen

Those are from 'pure blues' as in BBS Marans lol. I got them from peachick here on byc. She posted some pics a few weeks back on the Marans thread somewhere (huge thread)with pics of her birds and the egg color she is getting now. Her egg color is about the same as what my girls from her are laying..so pretty consistant through the generations. I think she is doing a good job. My blue coppers usually lay a little darker than these.

Flgarden, this came up on the main thread, and we discussed it for a few pages. Her blue marans are not from BBS lines. From what we could determine they are Blue Coppers with all the copper covered up. She says on her egg sale: "I developed my blue line from coppers and not cuckoo, so egg color is great. It's taken a few generations but my roosters are now free of any coppering in hackles.... " She said she started with a Blue Copper rooster to a solid black hen. But she did not say that the hen was not BCM. Given the dark egg color, I'm guessing it was a BCM with no copper, which is pretty common. So she bred in extra melanizers to eventually completely cover the mahogany areas of the Blue Copper. This has been done in other breeds as well, the Black leghorn is also Birchen based.

So what this means is that your Blue Marans will probably have more melanizers than your average E based BBS. They will also likely carry Mahogany, which you don't want in your Wheatens. Even if you get wheatens from your F1 crosses, they may still carry extra melanizers and mahogany that you don't want in Wheaten. As it took Peachick a few generations to breed in the extra melanizers, it will probably take a few generations to breed them out.

I think this is the kind of thing that Don was worried about, with Blue Wheatens carrying extra genes from the cross that created them. Projects like yours (bluexwheaten) are intriguing to me too, but sometimes you find things in the mix that you didn't know you had.

 

[cherylcohen]

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woohoo mine hatch this Thursday from cree farms too

 

[Muggsmagee]

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woohoo mine hatch this Thursday from cree farms too

I was quite impressed with the color of those eggs! Congrats and take some pics!

 

[Muggsmagee]

One of the Wheaten Marans chicks I hatched. I'm going to like these birds.

 

[cherylcohen]

ah what a great picture...