Black, Blue and Splash (BBS) Marans discussion thread

[wife2abirdman]

Ok so I have some pics of my Splash with the short toes. The pics didn't come out the greatest but I tried. There is no snow on her toes so where her toe stops and looks like it goes in the snow is where her toe really stops. What do you think?

 

[gilavina]

What you are seeing is rudimentary toes, occasionally found in feather legged birds. It is not to be deducted against in showing I don't believe

 

[wife2abirdman]

So should I breed her? Should I cull her because of this or is it fine to use her in my breeding program? I do not intend to show right now but I do intend to show in the future.

 

[gilavina]

People have mixed thoughts on it. I've not had a problem breeding a rudimentary toed bird to a regular one in terms of ending up with lots more rudimentary toed birds. I feel if the quality of the bird is good enough, then it is worth it.

 

[wife2abirdman]

Ok thank you. She is 26 weeks old what do you think of her? Do you think she looks like a quality bird? At what point should I judge her for quality? After she starts laying, when I can check the egg color quality?

 

[gilavina]

It would help if you could get a shot of her from the front, back and from the top of her to get a better idea of her

 

[wife2abirdman]

I will run out and see if I can get some better one but I had these that I took today

 

[bribre]

Hello marans lovers!!

I've already asked this question on the black copper marans page but I'd like more then one opinion on this. So I got one dozen black copper marans eggs from a local breeder and got a vary good hatch rate on them. Witch is vary exciting for me concentrating its only my second time incubating eggs. Anyway I got one little WHITE chick!! What is it? Is it a splash? It's got little bits of black on it head and wings.

Thanks

 

[Ray from PA]

Hello marans lovers!!

I've already asked this question on the black copper marans page but I'd like more then one opinion on this. So I got one dozen black copper marans eggs from a local breeder and got a vary good hatch rate on them. Witch is vary exciting for me concentrating its only my second time incubating eggs. Anyway I got one little WHITE chick!! What is it? Is it a splash? It's got little bits of black on it head and wings.

Thanks

Possibly a splash ???? ,,,, are you sure the breeder had Black Coppers ? Some Blue Coppers can appear to be black, and if they had a dark blue roo and hen, that would explain the possible splash chick.

Anyone else ?

 

[Hens and Roos]

I agree with this- blue is needed to produce splash, it will be interesting to see how the chick changes as it grows!