We have just put our farm under contract and since we don't know where we'll be, I need to move my flock..
I have two Blue Copper Marans (straight Jeane), one roo one hen. 2yrs old
One Black Copper Marans (Straight Jeane) 2yrs old, has distended crop, not sure if she's laying considering how...
I just finished raising Marans cockerels. Next year I'll be doing Naked Necks and Freedom Rangers, keeping a couple of each and cossbreeding them. I want the naked neck on Freedom Ranger mass. This is because of how slow and unthrifty the Marans are. At 20 weeks my boys dressed out to 3-4lbs. I...
When I started getting into chickens and decided on Marans I looked and looked for what one looks like processed. I never found it. So as a PSA, here ya go. This is a blue copper Marans cockerel. Aged 20 weeks, fed organic broiler ration and pastured. The last six weeks of which he ran amok. He...
I have a 5 month old tom whose leg is twisted. I can't see any evidence of injury and the skin over the shank is twisted, The hock goes under him and touches the other leg. I thought the hip might have been dislocated but it doesn't seem to be. We're thinking of killing him. Should we process him?
DH has dispatched many opossums that landed in the traps. Although he was trying to catch other animals. He has used a .22 and a 410 shotgun and he prefers the 410 with bird shot. It did not hurt the trap either there are 2 half inch areas where the paint came off. Only way you can tell the trap...
We got four bourbon red / royal palm poults. They've been doing great in the brooder. They hatched June 2. We just moved them outside. Our chicks and ducklings of the same age are doing great. I found two dead poults this afternoon. When my husband went to do night check and dispose of the 2...
Sherman is a Blue Copper Marans. His ladies are 3 BCM and 1 Blue Copper.
We lost the bird looking over Sherman's tail. It turned out to be a rooster and later died of an impacted crop.
We just added three Easter Egger gals to our little flock. I'm looking forward to Olive Egger babies...
Here is the Chikin Trakter. It is 4'x10'. The coop is 4' square. The floor of the coop is poultry netting as are the walls of the run. There is no floor in the run. It is framed out with 2x2s. The run door is a mix of scraps we had laying around. The coop door is just a sheet of plywood. We will...
My darling Sherman fits the bill. He is a Blue Copper Marans. He takes great care of his hens and is respectful of humans. I think it is in how you manage a roo. Train them to be cooped up at night and they'll put their girls to bed. When they are young, catch and inspect them every couple of...
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Sherman is a HOSS. I mean he is huge. Funny thing. Today my cousin picked up the Hamburgs and the EE that won't lay (and didn't pay for them! ) But when we pulled the hens from my dog crate to put into their carrier they, of course, put up a fuss. Sherman squawked as if to...
You're thinking of splash.. Splash + black = blue. A splash bird is one who got two copies of the dillute gene. It's the similar to cremello / perlino in horses.
White negates other colors. So if you breed white to black you should get 50/50 black and white. White doesn't alter other colors, it...
I've been gone from here for quite awhile. I've been busy being pregnant!!!
I'm back because two of my hens were lost to hawks. One BCM and one EE. I'm also selling the Hamburg pair and likely sending another EE to the freezer. So I'll be looking to buy 5 birds.
My Marans are all Wade line...
Well I had to give my dear Sherman an attitude adjustment yesterday! I shouldn't have told him that I thought he was the nicest and handsomest roo around. Little bugger bit me! I was shooing a hen and he reached out and bit me. I pulled his tail and growled at him. Then I carried him around and...
I got a breeding pair of year old Silver Spangled Hamburgs. They had / have a bit of respiratory funk. I thought they were better so I let them out for their second free ranging day. Well at the end of the day DH and I go to put them up. The hen was near the coop and went right in. The roo was...
Every time I fed my birds I talked to them and said "chikkie babies!" or "Chook chook chook". Now when I call they all come running. Give them a trigger word and it'll make you life so much easier.
I also didn't let them range till they were 18 weeks old. By then they knew me and my call well...