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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...

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.

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...

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! :)

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

thanks for posting pictures. It's easier to compare mine, when I see what they are supposed to be like.

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.

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...

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...

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...

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.

very pretty.

I have two cream legbar roosters. both are very good to the hens, but I am trying to figure out which is actually "better". One is very light, nearly white on his neck, and the other a very yellow. Which is closer to the breed standard? I have a picture of each, and the red eyes are from the...

OOOOH! I hadn't thought of that! Thanks. But luckily, I make sure they are up when I do that (wouldn't want them near the bleach either). Well, times getting closer. Jill hears peeping in her orphington eggs. I don't hear anything in my Marans eggs.

I just went to the feed store, and bought yet another 5 gallon plastic waterer for chickens. It was about 34 bucks. My friend showed me tonight, that she uses the little one gallon dog waterers (the ones with a little carboy a dish at the bottom) I have a larger 5 gallon carboy style waterer...

Having Marans eggs is very cool when you're in the kitchen, and really awful when trying to candle incubating eggs. Some of the really dark eggs, even an LED light has trouble finding the air sac, must less anything else. I can't wait until I can start some Cream Legbar eggs this spring. At...