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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    My FBCM babies with their adopted mom! I'm just hatching for fun and darker eggs! My Cuckoo's lay very light eggs, and I'm a little disappointed, but it's for fun, afterall, andI love to watch them, and steal their eggs for breakfast
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    they're so very pretty! i think I want some:)
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    :)that's so precious! I hatched out 11 of those cuties on the 20th of May!
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    Wanting to start with Marans

    I'm not sure if my experience is true to all, but I live in Roseville, CA.. Anyway, I ordered 16 chicks last year from cackle hatchery, and now my hens are a year+........they lay eggs in varying colors, from light pink, and giant, to medium, and light brown. None are of the darkest brown I was...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Hi everybody! I have some new babies that hatched on the 20th of may! I'm so in love with my newbies! They're FBCM's. got some eggs from a local breeder and hatched 7 in an incubator and 4 with broody hens. There were 11 out of 18 eggs, some were infertile:/ I placed all of the chicks with the...
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    Humidity in the incubator

    As a student of poultry at age 14, I became fascinated with the breeding and hatching of eggs. Even when I only raised mixed breed chickens and ducks I was always trying to find ways to incubate eggs. I started my poultry hobby with a few Araucanas and a few White Jersey Giant hens. My challenge...
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    Recommended incubators for temp and humidity control?

    My husband gave me a great idea for the humidity issue, that actually works too well. He said its used in cigar humidors......the green styrofoam "frog" material that's used in flower arrangements. Just be sure to get the wet kind not the dry kind. Soak it in warm water before placing it in the...
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    Hatching 5/20/13

    I have 6 eggs hatching under a broody girl, and 12 in an incubator.....should I put all of them under momma? What food should I give them? I don't want momma eating medicated food. Should I offer unmediated food and let momma eat it too? Does anyone have any advice? I'm thinking about putting a...
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    Rookie hatcher with lots of questions! Help!

    I have 12 eggs in the incubator on day 13. I've had pretty good luck at maintaining 99.5 temp and about 50% humidity constant. Starting at day 18, "lockdown", what is the right humidity level? I've read mostly 60-65%, but some say 85%! I also have 6 eggs under a hen in the hen house because she...
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