Rural Gardening: Marans, 1 by frans530

frans530 wrote:
Figured I would do a thread just for the marans..

All are the same age, will be 12 weeks old on July 7th

I noticed while I was talking to them, that not only do I have one with a funny butt.. but one of them has yellow legs.. (Dottie)
The other 3 seem to all have the same body style, same feathering, same tail carraige.. same face.. Freckles is one of the 3 that is much larger & lighter than the others and is also the protector and puts all19 gals to bed at night. Bertha is missing her tail feathers, yet has a bump where the feathers should be, ie. tailbone.

Bertha, Dottie & Doodles all have the same black/white coloring
Bertha, Doodles & Freckles all have same light color faces combs & whitish legs
Dottie has a redish face, red comb, yellow legs
Berth, defect, no tail feathers.. never has, nothing seems to be growing in either