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  1. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Awesome! Thank you! Wow, such a huge difference in the comb/wattles and overall size of the one I thought was a cockerel. Now I hope to get a Wheaten cockerel out of the next hatch...Sunday!
  2. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    K I'm pretty sure I got these two straight. But, I'm only going off the size and comb/wattles of the assumed cockerel. I can't see squat in the color differences here...
  3. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Nobody should be. That's a pretty good fertility rate. Quote: Thanks very much. I'm happy then!
  4. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    So uh...who here would be a bit disappointed with a 79% fertility rate on local, same-day BC Marans eggs at $50/doz.? My 24 are now down to 19.
  5. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Is it just me, or have too many people come to equate the "French Standard" with feathered shanks and nothing more than that? The hatching egg auction sites are full of sellers boasting about how "I breed to the French Standard", yet showing pictures of awful looking roosters...red...
  6. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: It's about tracking the eggs' collective average weight loss and hoping to achieve ~12-14% weight loss by Day 18. Humidity is a wildly constant variable, but the weight loss target is consistent whether we're talking about a 40-gram banty egg or a 65-gram Marans egg. If I need more...
  7. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I weight them every few days. I can't imagine incubating without weighing, especially since I've moved around a bit and what worked in one place (humidity-wise) is no good for another. I could whip out a spreadsheet easily enough, I just ain't yet.
  8. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Well I'm on Day 6 now and I just weighed the eggies again... 24 BC Marans: -3.4% 7 Banty Auracanas: -3.8% 4 OEGB and MGB: -3.9% the last three are still going crazy... Olive Egger: -4.6% Penedesenca: -5.3% Marandaise mix: -7.1% I'm not going to get overly concerned about the last...
  9. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: That's purty. I need two roosters just like that.
  10. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Well while we're all on the subject of genetics...I've been wondering if there's anything different (genetically, physically, chemically...) about the method in which the different dark-laying breeds make their eggs so dark. What I'm getting at is...is there any merit to the idea of...
  11. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: That's what I'm fix'n to do. We sell out at $5 a dozen at the farmers' market, and that's for plain ol' Barred Rock eggs.
  12. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I wouldn't expect that to be an issue in a forced-air 'bator. And I've never noticed this with prior clutches. This is the 5th for me and this 'bator.
  13. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    yeah, they've been freaking out and quit laying since a big storm cruised through a few weeks back. they're local and well taken care of, just totally nuts. I just switched those last three eggs with BCM #22-24, so I'll be able to see whether it's crazy eggs or a crazy incubator causing the...
  14. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Well, I reweighed my eggs last night....end of Day 4. The BC Marans had averaged a 2.1% loss...okay...the Banty Aracaunas, 2.2%...okay...sounds good... The four little gamey birds, 2.45%...and then things start getting weird...the Olive Egger, 2.9%; Penedesenca (super light one), 3.6%; and...
  15. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    I don't mind adding new eggs up to 24 hours later. In my experience, the hatch comes out essentially the same anyway.
  16. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I smell what you're cookin' there. I'm all about the Wheatens these days. Black Copper what? who? That was so 2K8.
  17. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Interesting stuff, geebs. What a trip. eta: For my own thing here, I plan to just say "fuhgeddaboudit" and roll like the old-school French....I'm just let the birds do what they do and I'll sell all the lighter eggs as eatin' eggs, hatch the darkest of the dark, and see how it goes. I'm...
  18. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    That's interesting. Now I need some Cuckoo eggs so I can do this. Funny how that works.
  19. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    What if you had a Cuckoo that laid darker than most BCs? Don't ruin the Cuckoo with BCs then?
  20. Dread Pirate Roberts

    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: nah, there's a recipe for breeding them out of Cuckoos and Black Coppers. I just don't happen to know what it is.
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