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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Well, I finally got caught up! I haven't had a lot of time for reading the forum; it's been a crazy year so far, but I've been busy working on the chicken houses and getting ready for the next generation. The parents are only 8 months old, so I don't think I'll be adding any of this hatch to...
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    Swiftack - does it really exist?

    For our current (first) generation, I've been using vet wrap tape to make leg bands to identify the different birds, but it's been fairly fiddly and they tend to fall off over time and need constant monitoring to make sure they're not getting too tight. Now that the pullets have started laying...
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    We have eggs!! Of course I was traveling at the time so I missed the big day, but my husband let me know. We have 4 now so far, pictured here with a store bought egg for comparison; looks like a pretty good colour :)
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    Wishful thinking?

    Definitely not a prank, we live in the middle of nowhere and my husband wouldn't be bothered to do something like that. I guess it was one that had been thrown out previously - when I found it it just smelled like mud but after it dried off a bit there was a bad egg shell coming through. Still...
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    Wishful thinking?

    I need some advice since I'm going back and forth and can't come to a conclusion... Our flock will be four months old in about two weeks. They are all Marans. I was expecting eggs in maybe early April. When we were putting the chickens to bed tonight, we found an egg lying in the run! My...
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    With the windy weather it's been very difficult to get any decent pictures, but I did manage to get a few over the holidays. I've a pretty good idea at this stage of who is who, looks like we have 2 BCM cockerels and 7 pullets, 1 each of the silver cuckoos, 3 white cockerels and 5 pullets, and...
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Any tips? A couple of mine are getting kind of muddy from playing in the garden and then running over each others' backs... :rolleyes: I'd like to wash them but I don't want it to be a traumatic experience, for them or me!
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    Topic of the Week - Christmas in the Coop

    Have to share this again! My mum thought I had actually dressed them up when I sent her the pic :lau They're already spoiled so won't be getting presents as such tomorrow but I'm sure they'll end up with some bits of turkey and leftover veg :)
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    You know you're a backyard chicken owner when...

    You know you're a backyard chicken owner when your family want a Christmas picture of your chickens! And you oblige: Merry Chickmas everyone!
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    Where did they come from???

    When we introduced a new dust bath for our guys, I found a YouTube video of a hen dust bathing and played it for them beside the new area. (Yes, I guess we have Millennial chickens :lau) They were very interested in the 'I found a good bathing area' calls! Within about half an hour they were...
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    You know you're a backyard chicken owner when...

    Glad to know I'm not the only one! We play our chickens videos all the time since they're growing up without a mature flock around them. They pay very close attention!
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    You know you're a backyard chicken owner when...

    Or hoarding your holiday allowance so that you can take enough days off for the next hatch!
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    Snow, what do Your hens think of it this year ?

    Haha, mine are the same! When there was just a little sprinkling they were happy enough and mostly tried to eat it, but when it got thicker... Nope. They ran to the door all excited to go out, did a bit of milling around just outside (helped by some bribery in the form of BOSS) and were all back...
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Can I have a famous name too? ;) I live in a town called Curry, so they could be Curry Chickens! :lau
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    Hands on hatching and help

    I miss the days of home made bread! My husband used to make all our bread but since we moved and the house needs so much work we have to buy it in. The industrial bread we buy tastes like a kitchen sponge...
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Haha ok probably not such a difference when you take the scale into account, I guess you had -2C? Seems very cold for Florida! And we had around 17F :)
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    International Black Copper Marans Thread - Breeding to the SOP

    Aw, but the awkward stage is so adorable! (I keep missing the notifications for this thread so apologies for dropping off so much..) We had a bunch of snow this week and it got down to minus 8 only a few days after we moved the chickens out of the house and into their grow-out pen in the cow...
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    Rooster Bachelor Pad

    Ah, yes I should have specified! The chicks I have are from eggs that were gifted to me by a very well known Marans breeder, and not easy to replace. My hope is to work with these lines and establish a good population here in Ireland. Ideally I would have loved to have a mature rooster as you...
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    Rooster Bachelor Pad

    I came here today for specifically this kind of information - would love to hear any more experiences anyone would like to share. My 20 chicks are about 8 weeks old now, and I believe 6 of them are cockerels. A couple of them have been looking at the pullets in a particular way, and I've heard...
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    Where did they come from???

    I feel you... Just finished up the shopping and between the 20kg bag of chick crumb, 20kg bag of sunflower seeds, fence posts, chicken wire, and a nice box of crickets... Well, I think my wallet is going into hiding :th
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