Posts by heath_elisha

I am getting one marans egg a day - from the one on meds, so I can't even cook it up for us to eat! She gets it.... didn't realize they had such a strong instinct to brood- but it could come in handy for chicken addicts.

Vet confirmed- bumblefoot. Antibiotics and suggested surgery. Husband not thrilled about spending $300 for surgery, so we are waiting to see how well the antibiotics do. Looking much better a week into meds..... 

Marans hens = contagious broody syndrome. Just saying.... 5 out of 6 have gone broody this spring. The sixth hen has been away from the other five recovering from bumblefoot, so she has not been influenced by it..... she may live in...

My pullet somehow broke her toe. A chicken foot looks kinda like a W. The outer left toe was broke high up so that the whole toe close the v shape on that side of the foot. She has been kept in a xlarge dog crate to heal up (she also...

Hi Everyone   Looks to me like many of you are hatching. I won't be doing any hatching here for awhile. At least not pure marans. We rehomed our blue copper cockerel Cowboy this past week. He was damaging the hens just too...

Hi everyone. Looks like I have about 150 posts to catch up on. Looks like I may be taking advantage of my broody black copper hen. We had a successful hawk attack (my first successful predator attack) and we lost my only blue splash...

You all are going to give me hatching fever 

Quote: Originally Posted by gilavina  Just a quick question, do you have any older hens on your place? It doesn't matter what breed really. If you do, put him with them and he'll learn his manners really quickly....

Morning everyone  Been a while since I have been on here. The birds have been keeping us busy this winter. The littles are all grown up now and the young rooster has inally learned he is a boy. Had some hens get really bad...