My Cuckoo Marans are 5 and a half months old. I can't wait until they lay their first dark brown egg! Are they late bloomers? or should I expect an egg soon? (I hope soon!)
Marans
I have raised quite a few Cuckoo Marans, I really like them. Most generally I have found mine to start laying around 22 weeks or very close to that. I have also found that they lay very well for up to four years. Nice size eggs, but the eggs do get lighter after about 18 months. Enjoy, and best of luck to you...Hay
Mine took forever to lay.. but then again nobody was laying...
Mr Hay.. I don't want to lose track of you.. but lots going on with DG and I am not sure how long they will let me be around.. you know how crazy us girls can get.. You can still find me on facebook.
just in case you want to know whats happening.. has nothing to do with chickens.. but has a ton to do with dirty dogs.
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/t/1101381/
So DG has been bought out. Wow.
Gee, I was totally out of the loop on this. I did wonder why the poultry section had slowed down so much lately.
No telling who all is involved at the top. Welcome to the New World Order is my guess.
I don't know about marans, maybe some day I'll have some of my own. For now, I'm struggling with plans for pens for my show silkies. Without this site I would never have even had any chickens. I appreciate the help I've received here.
I hear you. The former owner of this place sold it a couple of years ago, but stayed on. Then about the first of this year, that owner sold it to a big corporation(without warning what's-his-name) that seems to buy good websites and then wreck them. They just demanded that the first owner of here, the namesake, shut down his new and tremendously successful website where you can--- could have your own website within, even make your own little website a business.
I'm not naming names, because the robots have been finding my posts and deleting them. If you send mail to someone else here, that's censored, too.
Crazy times.
I have wild chickens in the woods around my house that I feed cracked corn, no bugs in my yard!! and two pet Cochin Bantams that lay lots of tiny eggs. I sure like chickens! And Silkies are the greatest! I almost bought the only one there, when I bought my two cochins. I shoulda!
I am very sad about what's happening. I hate change. I love this site even though the founder is elsewhere.. My loyalty will always be with him.
emails have always been read here to my knowledge..
I hope we all stay together no matter what.
I had one of Catsy's Cuckoo Marans... My first to butcher.. it was awesome! I'd raise Marans just for the dark meat! Very good eating... I mean if you have to. :)
Wonder if I'll ever get brave enough to eat a chicken again, any chicken, never mind my own. Might depend on how hungry I am. Sometimes I think about eating chicken, but then I remember my own precious birds and just can't.
I am so sorry to hear what is going on, but glad someone informed me. I had no idea. My FB friends are always talking about one world government and those that resist, and some other pretty scary plans by these elitists of the world.
Makes sense that some might want to control this site, after all we can't have people raising their own food.
I'm sad about the trouble. I really loved it over there. Didn't have my own cubit but I was thinking strong on it. This administration is looking insecure. Likely wishing they had done things different. Had their chance.
Oh I'm starting to get the picture. Punish them for bad behavior.
I have little doubt that it's some big corporation behind it, probably Monsanto. Wouldn't be a bit surprised.
Shouldn't the blame really go to Dave though for selling out? I haven't been here long and really don't know the story, but from what I got, he sold for probably some offer he couldn't or wouldn't refused.
It could happen to the best of us, money talks after all.
The way I understand it, he sold because he wanted some upgrades for the site he couldn't afford to do on his own but a big corporation could. Seems a selfless act to me. I'm sure he got some monetary benefit from the sale ( to Name Media, not IB ) as well he should have. If i sold a product I owned I should be able to expect to make a bit of money from the sale. I'm sure he would rather have been able to afford to pay for the upgrades himself and keep his creation.
I feel like he is the one person who should know more than anyone to make sure his loyal followers are safe BEFORE starting another site. I've been loyal all along.. I just can't stop thinking he should have known better! Every single angle should have been worked out long before this!!! A lot of people were very hurt, and it could have been avoided.
I refuse to leave DG because of it. I have too many friends here, I have too much time and too many feelings invested to leave it behind. I feel leaving here would accomplish nothing.
Yep Cajun, and yep Zz.
There are so many laws it's hard to keep up with them all. I wonder if he could sell the new site to somebody else and have them revive it. It's a really nice site. Fresh and fun and so many directions to explore.
OH MY!!!!
I am looking at my two maran's that were sold to me as hens and think I have a mating pair instead...
Again OH MY!!! Now I understand.
Are marans and cukoo marans the same breed?
Cukoo is just one of the colors that Marans come in. "Cukoo" Marans is like "Buff "Orpington or "Barred" Rock...
Do they look like dominiques?
Dominiques are considered barred but the cukoo pattern is very similar.
Are dominiques more white looking? It looked that way in the pic i saw. My roo looks like a cucoo maran pic instead of dominique
The roosters of both barred and cukoo colored breeds are paler than the hens.
My guy is dark gray with black barring. He has a single comb.
Dominiques have a rose comb. I really like them.. I had 3 roos I was trying to "wish" into being pullets, but it didn't work. LOL Talk about friendly!! I really like them.. I may try some next year.. but I want to make sure to get the rose comb ones that they claim are "original" or foundation.. I've since heard that Dominiques come with single combs also, but haven't seen that in any of the books I have.
2. In poultry, rose comb is dominant to single comb.
a. Cross a true-breeding rose-combed rooster with a single-combed hen. Then cross the F1's to produce an F2 generation. Show all genotypes and phenotypes and all ratios.
b. Explain how it is possible for a rose-combed rooster and a rose-combed hen to produce single-combed offspring. What percentage of the offspring are expected to have single combs in this cross?
Is this a pop quiz?
Punnett square!
F1: Genotype: 100% heterozygous rose comb, carrying single.
Phenotype: 100% rose comb.
F2: Genotype:
25% homozygous for single comb.
50% heterozygous for rose comb, carrying single.
25% homozygous for rose comb.
Phenotype:
75% rose comb.
25% single comb.
When two heterozygous rose comb birds cross, 25% of their offspring will be homozygous for single comb and will be phenotypically single combed.
This message was edited May 31, 2010 11:05 PM
That's what I was gonna say!!
Ok, I have some eggs in the incubator. They are a cross between my BCM roo and my Americauna. I am hoping for some hens that lay olive eggs. Called olive eggers! That should work right?
Yep.
I'd love to see a pic of those eggs.
Yeah, I have seen some olive eggs and they are really neat! I don't know what the chicks will look like. But for me, its the color of the eggs. I have two that lay light brown, one blue, (or teal really, I don't know why people call them blue. ) and I should have a white egg layer. But my Brown Danish leghorn does not lay anymore. She is only one year old. Don't know why.... Some "olive egger" eggs in the incubator.
And soon I should have two dark brown egg layers, but while we were all discussing things, I still have no Marans eggs! 5 and a half months and waiting......
I am going to get two white leghorns for the white eggs. Unless you all have another suggestion for a good white egg layer.
Any other colors I am missing?
Dark olive or light olive??
I was googling something about combs and ran across those questions in someones homework on a college site... LOL
My Amerauana lays pale blue eggs. Not green.. they are blue. :)
edited to add..
It totally looks white in the pic.. but trust me, they are blue. :)
This message was edited Jun 1, 2010 2:35 PM
I will take a picture of mine. They are teal. I guess that is a form of blue. I have heard tell of some Amerauanas laying a pink egg. Is that just a fluke?
My EE roo, Gumbo, was hatched from a blue egg.
I think the "pink" eggs are really just a light tan.
I have heard them called cherry eggs.