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I paid good $ for wheatens.
I paid good $ for wheatens.
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Butchered three BCM cockerels and a wyandotte hen that had her leg crushed by a horse. It was my first go at it. Cockerels were lean, as expected, and I found the unlaid eggs from the hen very interesting. She laid that morning before butchering. I didn't get a chance to weigh any of them. The Marans were about 30 weeks old, just the right age to be fighting each other over hens and crowing at 4 in the morning. I finally got my water temperature stable on the last bird. I found that 160 for five seconds was perfect. Feathers rolled right off.
This is my 2nd year hatching out Black Copper Marans. I am very disappointed this year because out of about 40 chicks, 4 have been Wheaten.
I am going to see if I can figure out which of my chickens is carrying the Wheaten gene.
My question, is: What should I do with the wheatens that hatch out this season? Sell them as brown egg layers? Tell people they are Wheaten Marans but not pure?
So I forgot to post on this. Seven of the eight were not fertile which is not bad with seven hens, on this hatch.30 out of 38 hatched That is a 79% hatching rate BCM and OE. One had a hard time getting out and pipped all the way around and didn't make it . But other than that not to bad. I will check the other eggs and see if there were feartal.