Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome! - Page 3933

Yeah, starting to think I should wear a tool belt outside these days! One with a slot to hold my wasp spray, a place for my 9mm pistol for the woodchuck, and a loop so I can drag the hoe behind me for the snakes and Pip!  Strike the 9mm, I might be too tempted to shoot Pip!

I need a bee hat!  I could imagine Pip's reaction to that!

Yeah, starting to think I should wear a tool belt outside these days! One with a slot to hold my wasp spray, a place for my 9mm pistol for the woodchuck, and a loop so I can drag the hoe behind me for the snakes and Pip!  Strike the 9mm, I might be too tempted to shoot Pip!

I might have some I can share from that little blue cuckoo roo in a few months.  He just has one copy so he should throw me SOLID Marans PULLETS.  If I cross him with a cuckoo hen, all the roos will be cuckoo and some pullets but 25% should be solid.  If we are LUCKY the cuckoo hen I got from you is not carrying gold (I don't see any on her) and we can get some stock to work with maybe.

I'm walking around with a left hand the size of a major league ball glove today thanks to the wasps.  Clearly, I didn't load up the spray soon enough!!!  (I'm about ready to blow EVERYTHING up today .... good thing we have gun control in Canada.  )

Gabbard Farms opens for me. Call them on Black Marans. Here is the other one:

Sustainable Yield Poultry

Carrie Stroble
Arnold,  California
sustainableyield@yahoo.com
Sussex in Light, Red, Silver and Coronation;
Phone: (209) 480-6347
French Standard Marans in French Black Copper, Blue, Black and White;
Large Fowl Wyandottes in Buff, Black, Blue, Blue-Laced Red, Barred and Blue-Barred; Large Fowl Black Australorps;
Large Fowl Ameraucanas;
Dark Brahma Bantams
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Here at Sustainable Yield, we maintain four varieties of French Marans, Solid White, Solid Blue, Solid Black, and the Black Copper. 
A limited number of chicks and hatching eggs will be available in 2011.  Reservations are also being accepted for started birds.
Sustainable Yield Poultry
P.O. Box 833
Arnold, CA  95223-0833
Phone: (209) 480-6347
info@sustainableyieldpoultry.com
sustainableyield@yahoo.com
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Hey Everyone 

Haven't been around as much lately....life is just crazy and trying to make it thru to when things will slow back down again. Did get a chance to take a few shots of various birds this morning while I was doing chores. I'm happy with the progress, but am still on a quest to be thinning down to nice small size flocks for over winter.

Still my favorite girl, just coming up to 6 months old now and is just a beast. Caught her cleaning herself after taking a dust bath.

Black birchen boy, also just coming up to 6 months. He's a split for gold and has dark eyes, but his body type I can work with and have plenty of girls with nice colored eyes, so looking forward to what he might have to offer.

excuse the exorcist moment the pullet in front of him is having.  (Shaking herself off from a dust bath)

Here's one of the only shots I could catch of a couple of the silver marans growing out. I have them all caught up in sorting pens, so I can hopefully get a nice look at their progress. They are just stunning to watch.

A blue marans pullet in another sorting pen. She's roughly 2 1/2 months old. She has a nice type to her with a pleasing color tone

Another pullet...was in a sorting pen til she hopped out while I had the door open. She's got a nice type to her as well. She's holding her tail plenty high from being on alert. 

a bit blurry, but good shot of her

Cant resist putting up a pic of one of my favorite birds on the place, one of my light sussex. She just finally broke of being broody and is growing in the rest of her tail feathers out from molting, but has just a fantastic type and a head like a nice round ball. 

  Vicki - can't you just send me ONE - any one....puh-leeeese!    haha