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Unless it's a very dark grayish blue, you look to have a black silver

The blue silvers are varying shades of slate grey with identical markings to the black silver.

The 'mottled' girl is a mutation, if you get one of those it would be pretty rare but not impossible. Both girls that showed up mottled started out black silver and then started developing more and more white feathers.

yay! I get so nervous mailing eggs, I am always worried that none will hatch.

did you candle? ARE THEY ALIVE? I hope they hatch.

Eggs are tough to ship overseas, due to them not liking elevation changes in flying. It might take too long to move eggs via boat, thats why usually adult birds are what is moved, plus dealing with customs for live animals can be a pain. You know, I once had an Englishman contact me about...

If they have a tiny tail, it's actually pretty good, as you don't want a giant tail on marans you want a nice, pointy tail that is smaller rather than enormous. Slow feathering types can take what feels like forever for their tails to grow. Mine are slow feathering types, and you don't get the...

I've had rumplessness happen in the marans about 1 in 150 chicks. It seems a common mutation in this breed. I eat them, mostly. True rumplessness is where they don't even have a coxyx bone ( tailbone, however it is spelled)

Sometimes my Marans hatch a little later than their fellow eggs. I'll cross my fingers for you!

I tend to not handle the boys a lot. After puberty, if I want the boys to be friends, that's a better time to work on them. They are through the confusion of wacky hormones, and finally clear headed, so befriending them after puberty works better for me. I also eat any boy who shows aggressive...

My lesson from this, is that a fence just isn't enough when you have a certain amount of acreage. I will be investing in a GPS fence collar. I had come to rely on him so much in those 2 years. It has been a non stop tear fest. My son is absolutely floored. He dug the grave practically himself...

He crawled through the chain link fence that lines the interstate and was immediately hit by a pickup. We don't think the driver was paying attention because Brian says he didn't swerve or slow down, we just heard it happen. He slipped out while I was busy cleaning the siphon that crosses the...

I hope more hunters get the message, but really once the birds go feral I guess it doesn't really matter. It is definately nice that he admitted that domestic and wild turkeys are the same species, because they sure are! lol. My birds have some decendents among the local wilds, because of wild...

Your turkey should have a minimum weight. They should be between 4 and 6 months for the fair, we usually aim for about 6 months so we can be sure to reach the weigh in. We have been finding good sucess with soaking the turkey feed with fresh goat milk, it has been making their feathers nicer...

I just hope the eggs hatch!

They don't do well going uphill, I know that. I myself am only at 3000 feet so not all that high for Montana, I am south central.

Let's hope they hatch alright!

halfway across Great Britain is not particularly far. You could fit nearly two Great Britains in just the state I live in, Montana. How many hours would the travel take? :lau

before the tiger bronze came, I had no penciling in the flock. There is a chance that the hen might be a cornish instead of a sweetgrass, she is a turkey raised turkey from last year. i stole all 13 poults because of the downpour predicted for this evening, and I am glad I did because it was a...

Tiger bronze crossed with sweetgrass hen makes this guy and 12 others just like it.