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    Cream Legbar Working Group: Standard of Perfection

    We have cream legbars, french marans (of several varieties), araucanas, and a buckeye, and a langshan. The legbars lay a blue egg for us too, the araucanas lay either blue, green, or pink eggs for us, the buckeye a light barely-brown egg, and the langshan lays an ivory egg. The marans lay...
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    Emu eggs started March 6th - Hatch-Along

    good luck! I started my incubator on March 3rd, although I had planned on the 6th. But I was being overrun with eggs. :) So I'll have cute fluffy yellow chicks for Easter.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    We had an egg and chicken show here in January. I didn't enter any chickens, but did enter one egg. It got a Champion trophy. How's that for funny. I had never entered an egg or a chicken, so it was pretty funny. I asked the judge a lot of questions afterwards and here is some of what she...
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    eggs for Easter 2013

    Hi all. I have my incubator started with Wheaton French Marans eggs, and Cream Legbar eggs. Started March 3rd. So I will have cute fluffy yellow chicks for easter. Who else is hatching eggs for easter chicks? I hate doing it alone! :)
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    YES! YES! YES! I love mine. Any variety, except I think the wheatons are the friendliest. As far as cold hardy, i can't tell you because i live in texas. I get tons of eggs, and all of mine are really dark (except one hen i just got this weekend seems to be laying a very light egg :( so her...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I think if you have two hens and one roo, you can be a good chicken breeder. I have almost 150 at any one time, but I have the room to do that. And, btw, I am still very much a beginner at this. The people that have the big incubators, and can hatch 200 out or more at a time scare me too! LOL...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I also have a very light blue hen. I had two that were so very light, they were more a lavender color and practically gave them away, thinking they were "wrong". Only to find out a pair just like them sold for $800! I think it's all in who-wants-what in the end. I'm hanging on to my light...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    see? I learn something every day. I didn't know the tails should be open like this. Please keep posting pictures of "yes" and "no" aspects of Marans bodies. It's very helpful! I think my hens are more on the tight side, than the open side. I'll have to watch for that.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Sharpie makes a silver pen, that is a whole lot easier to see than the black on an egg too. But since it's quite toxic, mark quick, small, and fan the egg afterwards to get rid of the chemicals evaporating. Once it's dry, I don't think it hurts anything.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    thanks for posting pictures. It's easier to compare mine, when I see what they are supposed to be like.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Stylus makes a pen light, LED, that makes such a bright light, I can see blood spots, or meat spots, or even veins in the darkest of my eggs, and I have some really dark eggs. And since it's LED, it doesn't heat up the egg. I just LOVE that light.
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    I need another mentor! Anyone live in the central Texas area (Bryan, specifically)? My friend Jan, who helps me out soooo much with my birds is a two hour drive away, and she can't ever come here. She just gave me another 15 wheaton Marans hens!! Yay! But I really need someone who can...
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    Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

    Ours are free range too, during the day, but we always go out once it's dark and lock the coop doors. It protects them from racoons, owls, bobcats, coyotes, oppossums, neighborhood dogs, and skunks. Once morning comes, we can open the doors and let them charge back out into the grass. But...
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    Cream Legbar Working Group: Standard of Perfection

    Number one it is then! Thanks for all your help. so the yellow color is not as good as the one without the yellow? hmm... why is it that I always think the colors that are wrong are prettier... I will put the first one with my pretty little hens. I raised all these from day old chicks, and...
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    Cream Legbar Working Group: Standard of Perfection

    That is a smaller version of the one I too the pic of. I am going to sell him, because he is smaller, and has a tiny tail... but mostly because with only three hens, I do NOT need three roos.
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