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Marans
Presented by the Marans of America Club-Marans Club of France
All materials copyright by MOAC-MCF Clubs 2014
The World of Marans is a simple publication for many of us to get a better understanding
of what to look for in this wonderful French breed of poultry.
We will do our best to give your prime examples of the breed without trying to explain all
the mathematics of the breed. I (Brenda Little) am not an expert in the genetics of the
breed and wont try to explain something I cant. I humbly apologize for this handicap,
but with all earnestly give you my best shot with what I do know.
Many request the APA SOP to use a guideline within their breeding program. I wont
provide those, but I can tell you that if you use them in your program that Im sure you
will receive many rewards and theyre not that much different from the MCF Standards.
Genetic are wonderful, but personally I prefer to define with the eye. Someone could tell
me what my bird is genetically and it would go though one ear and out the other. But
they can show me physically and that I can heed and understand. Its the laymans way.
So lets get down to business in what we are looking for in a Marans and go from there.
Two things we look for from a Marans are body breed type and egg color.
more importantly, the tails "squirrel" (more than 90 ), are a very serious fault.
Figure 1
So first a breeder starts with the overall basics of the breed type and then the variety standards
are applied.
The cock should be: black"... except black hackle, saddle, shoulders, and copper lancets.
Chest slightly enameled red ... ".
No more than 10 % enameled in the breast.
The hen must be black except cape is said: "... the golden feathers piped" and may have
"red reflections especially on the chest
..."!
In fact, they tend to give birth to some pullets to incorrect color drawings by the
presence of staining the chest, and the rest of the body and with stems clear
feathers. These chicks must be rejected without hesitation if it is to focus on the only
selection of the NC variety.
On the other hand, green reflections in the black plumage are not required previously in
the Marans Black-red. The absence of bright reflections (also known as "green beetle") is
a quality that is considered to be correlative to the presence of a gray down instead of
black, red-orange rather than black or brown or eyes tarsi pinkish-white ie a relatively
mild amount of melanin in the skin and throughout the body to promote the maintenance
of quality standard.
This balance of colors Black-red should be understood to be characterized in the
following way in breeding cocks:
coppery enough support without excessive black with red shoulders.
a chest slightly marked coppery-red.
black chest provided the shoulders and ear Bouquet are pure.
orangey red eyes and tarsi rather clear.
Moreover, when a strain very coppery red is selected, it seems more difficult to contain
an excess of black on the whole body. The black tone is often deeper and shiny. Looking
for a beautiful copper supported, but no more, thus appears highly recommended when
you want to stabilize the color better.
In contrast, copper light strains facilitate more widely dominance golden tones depends
incorrect to black.
On this point, it should remain cautious because this dominance should be considered
deviant to a defective tone tan instead of coppery red color desired.
It should be added that the color of hackle roosters often has a two-tone shade lighter
because the fringe is more intense color than the rest, it is thus similar to that of
lancets. This character is of course correct and this contrast is of variable intensity
(though less marked in red copper supported).
For against the copper color of hackle can also mark the front of the neck or throat and
spread to the limit to plastron. Hens and copper properly give a sizeable proportion of
the cockerels marked ideal color of red on the chest.
The USA America Poultry Association disqualifies for the following:
Greater coverts form through the wing black armbands to reflect green .The secondary
flight feathers are the wing mirror triangle "cinnamon-brown" with wing closed. Throat
and chest are black
Below, thighs, abdomen blackish with gray under color.
Black tail, but possibly with reddish shades on the edges and bright pink or purple or
typical particularly for large sickles green hues.
Shanks and toe color of wheatens are a little different from Black Copper Marans. MCF
Standards calls for Shanks: of average size, Slightly feathered and white with a pinkish
tinge with whitish sole.