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The difference isn’t as clear on the photo as in person, but the top left is Natasha’s egg, next to it is Chanel’s and below is Esme’s. The three are three random eggs from the ones I bought. It seems that my eggs are more red/purple rather than orange/brown. They are darker but less shiny.

The DCM eggs arrived today. All safe and I’m happy with their colour for English cuckoos. They are also good and round, something that will correct my existing stock’s longer eggs. I’ll get some photos comparing them to my BCMs’ eggs soon.

I don’t know if you can but I like to put small drinkers and feeders that the hen can reach while on the nest. This way, she’s healthy but you might need to kick her off every couple of days so she doesn’t make a mess of the nest.

The breeder seems really helpful and knowledgeable. It was nuce to be in contact with someone else who is dedicated to marans in England, whose bird are actually show quality unlike most of the ‘show quality marans’ that get sold on Facebook or eBay that have not been bred well. The eggs he...

Bought the eggs today £45 for 10, a little pricy but it’s an investment. I won’t be complaining when I have plenty of marans pullets. And I think I can probably get £5 a hatching egg once the Golden cuckoos come along.

That’s a nice looking coop.

I agree, I wish he was here, I’m worried what could have happened but really it isn’t my business. For the face I look for comb evenness, evenness of serration, size and colour, as well as texture. The earlobes should be almond shaped and not twisted or white, and the wattles should be round...

These are the parent stock of the eggs I’m looking at. Tails seem low (the English standard asks for high tails compared to the French standard, but not squirrel or anything like that), face seems good enough for me to work with and the type seems nice (Chanel’s genes will improve this...

They aren’t classed as autosexing as there can sometimes be in-between looking ones and the two types aren’t as distinct as seen in legbars or welbars. However, the pattern you describe is spot on, as well as the fact the pullets have more distinct ‘eyeliner’. 9/10 wellies can be sexed like...

my two silkies who were not looking after the chicks have both gone broody. I think I’m gonna give one some silkie eggs and buy myself some cuckoo marans eggs. If I get Cuckoo marans, I think this is my plan: Grow the best cockerel and all the good pullets. Introduce the pullets but not the...

His tail reminds me of a young Brahma’s tail, or similar breed which have full hackles covering their well up their tail. I wouldn’t be surprised if a couple of large sickle feathers pop out soon. I’d be interested to see him as an adult.

Both pullets. For Wellies, the best indicator is the chestnut red breast.

how long have you had him for? Are you certain he hasn’t just got a small tail or is going through a weird growth stage where he has lost his tail? His colour reminds me of a pure BCM, but one detail would make me say otherwise: the foot feathers. They seem really long like a Brahmas rather than...

Yes, I will list all the genotypes I can think of to produce a white phenoytype: Recessive white: c/c + anything else Typical Dom white: E/(any E locus), I/I White Silver Birchen: E^R/ E^R, I/I, S/S White Silver Wheaten ???: E^Wh/E^Wh, I/I, S/S White Silver Partridge: e^b/ e^b, I/I...

Definitely hatch more if you can. I don’t really know why cracking the egg open to check fertility is worth it when hatching your own eggs. If it’s fertile you’ve wasted one and if it isn’t nothing will happen anyway. If she can fit that many eggs under her, I’d hatch them all. I know they are...

I think that comes from the misconception that the darkest egg genes are sex linked. Chooksman always argued otherwise. If you know the roo is from an exceptionally (eggceptiinally) dark egg, you are certain that all the offspring inherit it, but if all your hens lay dark eggs, this is just as...

The header says Minorca but this is the end of the Marans page. Less specific breakdown but lots of pints for type, I think this is good for a breed like marans, considers them as functional livestock rather than show birds. I think if the BCM was recognised it would get its own with more...

Thank you so much, this is really helpful. It will be interesting to compare this to the English one.

Are they going to be wheaten Isabels or is there duckwing/partridge coming from the other parents? If you are trying to breed true duckwing type isabels, I suggest using Cooper marans as the birchen will be easier to breed out than wheaten. Obviously you have this girl now, and we always say...

This might be a question we have to pray to @Chooks man to answer. Does anyone know if the SOPs in the US/Europe have a point based judging criteria? By this I mean how the UK Poultry standards have a points system for every breed out of 100, each breed breaking the 100 points down into...