Wheaten and Blue wheaten Marans Discussion Thread

[pinkchick]

Happy New Year Everyone!

 

[halo]

I will confess, I do a lot of mixing up of my Marans. Worst case scenario, Ill end up with layers to sell eating eggs, which I cant keep up with the demand anyway. I have 4 gorgeous wheaten marans hens that I hatched from Katy, none of which are laying at the moment, but I have cuckoos, blacks, and blues laying that are out with the Wheaten marans roo, so Im hatching those, just for fun. Its been really interesting playing with these genes. The oldest group, that is about 3 months old, is a group from the Wheaten marans roo/cuckoo marans hens, and they were sex linked, which was neat. Now as they are growing, they all look like black coppers, some with strawy looking copper, and others with correct looking copper. They will go into the laying herd. Im now hatching some wheaten marans roo/black and blue hens, and these are all ending up either black or blue.

Fun stuff. Dont forget the fun, people.

 

[sewandgrow]

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Mine has just a little. I thought he had none at one time & was going out to take a picture for someone that asked but discovered he does have some.

 

[berkeleysprings]

do u have any pictures ?
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Mine has just a little. I thought he had none at one time & was going out to take a picture for someone that asked but discovered he does have some.

 

[berkeleysprings]

this roo has very little , he is over a year old i rely wish more people would post pictures,, i thought this was a thred to show bird pictures

 

[sewandgrow]

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Mine has just a little. I thought he had none at one time & was going out to take a picture for someone that asked but discovered he does have some.


You might have been the one that asked for pictures before, but when I went out & realized that he did, in fact, have a little fluff I didn't take the picture. I will take another look when I feed today.

Don or Walt or anyone that might know.....LOl On the white feather thing. I recently bought a trio of Australorps for my grand daughter ( I know it's not Marans but wondered if it might apply) The breeder is a long time & well known with a very good reputation & came highly recommended. He had another cockerel that he felt had real promise but had a couple of white feathers. He said he was sure it was not genetic but rather a stress thing. I did not take that cockerel but was curious about it. Do they throw white feathers for stress of injury that are not genetics? If so, how would you know?

 

[sewandgrow]

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I think mine has more than this but again, I will check later today.

 

[snowbird]

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You might have been the one that asked for pictures before, but when I went out & realized that he did, in fact, have a little fluff I didn't take the picture. I will take another look when I feed today.

Don or Walt or anyone that might know.....LOl On the white feather thing. I recently bought a trio of Australorps for my grand daughter ( I know it's not Marans but wondered if it might apply) The breeder is a long time & well known with a very good reputation & came highly recommended. He had another cockerel that he felt had real promise but had a couple of white feathers. He said he was sure it was not genetic but rather a stress thing. I did not take that cockerel but was curious about it. Do they throw white feathers for stress of injury that are not genetics? If so, how would you know?

When most any person ends up with a male with white feathers first thing out of their mouth must be from stress. It is much easier to just bypass the male with white feather. The only thing I can say to the people selling eggs and fowl is be honest with your fellow hobbiest or they will disappear. Don

 

[snowbird]

I would like to ask anyone with Wheaten Marans to check for white ear lobes next time you are looking at them and post the out come here.

My wheaten have red ear lobes but have seen a few lately on here with what looks like white or chaulky white. Don

 

[berkeleysprings]

not sure if stress is the trouble but cotton fluff at tail base (not wing ) i read from some of the great genetic guys its hormonal levels in the males


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You might have been the one that asked for pictures before, but when I went out & realized that he did, in fact, have a little fluff I didn't take the picture. I will take another look when I feed today.

Don or Walt or anyone that might know.....LOl On the white feather thing. I recently bought a trio of Australorps for my grand daughter ( I know it's not Marans but wondered if it might apply) The breeder is a long time & well known with a very good reputation & came highly recommended. He had another cockerel that he felt had real promise but had a couple of white feathers. He said he was sure it was not genetic but rather a stress thing. I did not take that cockerel but was curious about it. Do they throw white feathers for stress of injury that are not genetics? If so, how would you know?