Birchen

Genetic code =  ER/ER  S/S  M1/M1  Id/Id  w+/w+  Pti1-L/Pti1-L

My first Birchens came from the Leurquin line.  These had any number of faults from sprigs in their combs to squirrel tails. They were carrying so many unwanted recessive genes that they were too many to count.  This was the line that got me interested in breeding and of all the genes this bird was carrying.   It was the birchen that took my fancy.  The birds were smaller than they should have been and laid more of a pinkish egg than the russet brown egg we know as a Marans egg.

I crossed them with my Fitch cuckoo hen in the hope of improving the egg color and it did work to some extent.  Then all the females became black and even had black combs.  I had to back track a couple of years to get the silver to show in the females hackles.  Eventually I gave up and started all over again using a bird that I had crossed into the black copper line.  I am still working on the second line but have more experience in breeding now.  Like most other lines I have worked on, I couldn't resist adding the blue gene.  Blue is my favorite color - even in chickens.

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Black

Genetic code = E/E S/S Ml/Ml Id/Id w+/w+ Pti1-L/Pti1-L

The black line is my second attempt at breeding for a black bird. The first line was progressing nicely when we started noticing that the soles of their feet were yellow. This came from a recessive gene that one of the birds was carrying. I always set the darkest egg in the hope of improving the egg colour but the darkest eggs can also carry other recessive genes. This is how the yellow feet began appearing. My second attempt was to breed a cuckoo female to a black copper male. At first some of the chicks carried the Ks gene for slow feathering. As I continue to breed, I see fewer chicks carrying this gene. Some breeders like the slow feathering gene because they say they get better feather quality. In my initial breeding the males had a small amount of gold in their hackles but now they are a solid black. The egg is a rounded in shape and occasionally reaches a number seven on the egg chart. This line is one of my favourites.

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Black Copper

Genetic code = ER/ER S+/S+ Ml/Ml Mh/Mh Id/Id w+/w+ Pti1-L/Pti1-L

It was the introduction of the black copper male from the Denis LaBelle line that made all the difference. Every question had been asked about this bird before he was purchased but, when he arrived, he didn't have a single blade comb. Nevertheless, he was bred to the birds that I had and produced some very nice large black pullets. These were bred back to him and so the line continued. Some of the offspring were black but some had stippling and mossiness at the edge of the feather. After a while I culled all the black birds and those that were mossy from the flock. However, I lost egg color. Then the bobcat had a tasty meal and I had to start the whole breeding program again. Despite these mishaps, the black copper line is now back to where it was with the females having nice copper hackles and they are producing very nice eggs once again.

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Black Tailed Buff

Genetic code = EWh/EWh S+/S+ Mh/Mh Di/Di w+/w+ Id/Id Pti1-L/Pti1-L

This variety has come from the wheaten and is still in the developmental stage.

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Blue

Genetic code = E/E Ml/Ml Bl/Bl Id/Id w+/w+ Pti1-L/Pti1-L

The blue line was developed alongside the black line. This was because I wanted to use the melanizing gene to give the feather a darker outline. Unfortunately, it affected the eye color at the same time. By selecting males with the correct eye color, this problem has been eliminated.

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Blue Wheaten

Genetic code = eWh/eWh Bl/Bl Id/Id w+/w+ Pti1-L/Pti1-L

The blue wheaten line is another of my favorites and was made by crossing with a splash from the copper blue line. The birds of the copper blue line are among the largest. Crossing these to other breeds has helped to increase the size of the wheaten varieties.

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Columbian

Genetic code = eWh/eWh S/S Co/Co w+/w+ Id/Id Pti1-L/Pti1-L

My columbian line was created by accident while I was away in England tending to family matters. On my return I found that birds with my three shades of yellow leg bands had all been mixed up. My golden salmon females, instead of being mated with a golden salmon male, had been mated with a wheaten male carrying silver. The result was a little yellow chick that feathered as a columbian. Unfortunately, the egg color from the hens produced by this match was disappointing. Sometimes it's possible to cross varieties and retain the egg color and other times it doesn't work at all.

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Copper Blue

Genetic code = ER/ER s+/s+ Bl/Bl Mh/Mh Id/Id w+/w+ Pti1-L/Pti1-L

The copper blue line was started in 2004 when a blue cuckoo appeared in a flock of cuckoos. Two females were bred from that one bird and they were sent to me to develop a new line. At the time the genetic gene pool of Marans was very small so bred the blue female to birchens that I had been breeding for some years. After a black copper male was bought from the Denis LaBelle line the copper blue line started. I had seen a picture of a copper blue Marans and that was the color I wanted more than any other.

Many generations later the bird is now laying some of the darkest eggs but the main fault is white in the tail of the male. This is something that I will be working on this next year.

The copper blue is one of the largest Marans we have and from this line I have increased the bird size in other varieties. It has been difficult to get the gold in the females hackles but we are now seeing more females that are nicely colored.

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Crele

Genetic code = e+/e+ S+/S+ B/B Id/Id w+/w+ Pti1-L/Pti1-L

This variety was started by crossing the cuckoo female with a golden salmon male. Unfortunately, some of the egg color was lost in the cross but the autosomal red disappeared in some of the birds. The next task is to breed for better egg color.

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Cuckoo

Genetic code = E/E S/S Ml/Ml B/B Id/Id w+/w+ Pti1-L/Pti1-L

After many years of not having any cuckoo I have started breeding them again. The egg color is a number four so will breed to improve this.

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Golden Salmon

Genetic code = e+/e+ S+/S+ Id/Id w+/w+ Pti1-L/Pti1-L

My golden salmon line was started in 2006 from some eggs given to me while visiting Yellowstone National Park. I arranged to meet a breeder from Montana and could have spent the whole day talking about Marans.

I tried to improve the egg color by crossing them with wheatens. This may have been a mistake because the chicks grew up with the red characteristics carried by the autosomal red gene. This may have come from the breeder's eggs or my own wheatens. At first, the cross didn't darken the egg color significantly but, with selective breeding, the egg color is now one of my darkest. The autosomal red is still a problem but think I may have found a solution. It will take another year of breeding to find out.

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Silver Crele

Genetic code = e+/e+ S/S B/B Id/Id w+/w+ Pti1-L/Pti1-L

The silver crele line is a couple of years behind the crele line. As in the crele variety, autosomal red coloring has disappeared in some birds. At the moment, we have a single barred male and will breed him with a silver crele female to get a male carrying two barring genes. This next generation should produce some nice silver crele males and females.

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Silver Salmon

Genetic code = e+/e+ S/S Id/Id w+/w+ Pti1-L/Pti1-L

The silver salmons were developed by crossing a blue birchen carrying wheaten with a golden salmon. The egg color was good from the initial cross but the autosomal red coloring continued to be a problem.

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Splash

Genetic code = E/E S/S Ml/Ml Id/Id w+/w+ Pti1-L/Pti1-L

The splash is a result of breeding a blue bird with either a splash or a blue bird.

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Splash Wheaten

Genetic code = eWh/eWh Bl/Bl Id/Id w+/w+ Pti1-L/Pti1-L

Splash wheaten are a result of a blue wheaten mated to a blue wheaten which results in a splash wheat

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Wheaten

Genetic code = eWh/eWh S+/S+ Id/Id w+/w+ Pti1-L/Pti1-L

I bred alongside a gentleman from Tennessee for many years with this line. The first wheaten female came from his cuckoo line. We didn't know much about genetics at the time and bred this line so many different ways in the hope of getting rid of the barring.

After many years of trying to produce wheaten Marans, I was sent some eggs and I began breeding again. I had a lot of problems with these birds. It was hard to keep them alive until they started laying and they also had a host of other problems. One by one, the faults were corrected. This line also produced some black-tailed buff chicks as well as wheatens.

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White

Genetic code = eWh/eWh c/c w+/w+ Id/Id Pti1-L/Pti1-L

The white line came from a flock of Marans that were bred in Michigan. A trio was sent to me and I started breeding them. The bird was small and the egg was terrible.

At first I crossed them with the cuckoo and got males that had a sort of ghost barring to them. After a while I bred them to black coppers because the egg color was much better.

Recently I was kindly given a white sport male from a black copper and am presently breeding him to my other white line in the hope of increasing the egg color. I have found that the birds with light colored feathering produce eggs that aren't as dark as those with a darker feather. At present there is no known genetic reason for this.

I'll continue breeding this line until I get a darker egg than the number four being laid at the moment.

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По книге Х. Шмидт, Р. Пролл
"Куры. 200 пород для разведения и выставок. Полный атлас"

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МАРАН (МАРАНС)

Происхождение: название дано этой породе по местечку Маран во Франции, северо-восточнее Ла Рошели. Выведена в 1895 г.

История породы: в Англии эта порода существует уже с 1929 г. По сведениям «Британского стандарта птицы», мараны появились в результате скрещивания фаверо-лей, Barred Rocks, брекелей и Gatinaise.

Форма тела и головы: вопреки объемистому телу, не должно создаваться общее впечатление о неуклюжести этой птицы. Корпус довольно длинный, широкий и глубокий. Длинная спина плоская и слегка опущена назад. Широкие плечи, полная, хорошо закругленная грудь. Хорошо развитый живот, особенно у несущихся кур. Сильные голени малозаметны; средней длины плюсны, слегка оперенные с наружной стороны, - как и паружные пальцы. Простой гребень, который у кур может склоняться на сторону. Красные ушные мочки, сережки средней величины, цвет глаз от красного до оранжевого.

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Особенности: маран - высокопродуктивная порода с большой яйценоскостью и большим весом яйца. Порода пользуется любовью в первую очередь благодаря красивой окраске яичной скорлупы. Чрезвычайно популярны темные коричнево-красные яйца; во Франции заводчики особенно ценят интенсивный золотисто-коричневый цвет скорлупы (extra-roux). Высокая мясная продуктивность. Живой по темпераменту тип птицы с крепким строением тела и устойчивой конституцией.

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Очень красивые!!!!!Но березовый мне больше всех нравится.
Ребята,как у вас несутся мараны сейчас,какой вес,цвет?
Мои что-то не очень,вес 62-65 грамм,молодкам 7-8 мес. Фото на подоконнике.
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кати пише:

Ребята,как у вас несутся мараны сейчас

На этой неделе только начали, 1,5 года, пока 58-60 гр, цвет светлый. Ваши мараны несут отличные яйца.

кати пише:

Мои что-то не очень,вес 62-65 грамм,молодкам 7-8 мес. Фото

...хороший вес для молодых...Маран и не засыпают яйцами, особенно после года...
...на фото жёлтым отметил "зачётные! яйца...красным - в левом ряду верхнее и нижнее брак/скорее всего какая-то курка не совсем в чистоте...остальные как у большинства марановодов...
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Ну мараны не первый год у меня и родители неслись гораздо лучше,но яйцо было мельче,может комбикорм добавить нужно,сейчас зерно и мешанка...
Iara2000, Спасибо!

Мои маранчики сегодня  порадовали!!! Возраст курочек 1,4 года. [Ви повинні бути зареєстровані та підключені , щоб побачити посилання]

Вот такой вес. [Ви повинні бути зареєстровані та підключені , щоб побачити посилання]

Есть вот такой на продажу молодой петушок-красавец!!! Поёт.... целый день!!! Топчет "всех" курей. индоуток   и за котом гоняется......! Если кому нужен - пишите в личку     [Ви повинні бути зареєстровані та підключені , щоб побачити посилання]

afanasevvv66 пише:

Мои маранчики сегодня  порадовали!

afanasevvv66 пише:

Вот такой вес

...по стандарту...

Михалыч! Спасибо!

Моя молодая курочка МАРАН снесла сегодня вот такое яичко! (Вывод цыплят был 28 июня 2016г)  [Ви повинні бути зареєстровані та підключені , щоб побачити посилання]

И вот такое сегодня яйцо от курочки МАРАН! [Ви повинні бути зареєстровані та підключені , щоб побачити посилання]

afanasevvv66, я в марансах не дуже тямлю, але як на мене, то колір просто шикарний.

afanasevvv66 пише:

И вот такое сегодня яйцо от курочки МАРАН!

Каттеина пише:

то колір просто шикарний.

і коляр і вага супер

Спасибо ВСЕМ!!! Сам не ожидал. Но когда увидел этот тёмно- красный почти *чёрный* цвет---понял!!! надо делать фото. Курочкам 1.6 года - брал у Юры в Черновцах.