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  1. Oblio13

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

    Quote: I can't be sure, I don't want the neighbor's to see me checking out a chicken's butt too closely. Surely they've seen worse by now? I'm taking the fifth amendment.
  2. Oblio13

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

    Quote: I can't be sure, I don't want the neighbor's to see me checking out a chicken's butt too closely.
  3. Oblio13

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

    Got my first two Wheaten eggs this afternoon: Here's the roo, he's my favorite "mobile lawn ornament":
  4. Oblio13

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

    Sometimes I can see the air cell after a week, but that's about it.
  5. Oblio13

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

    Quote: You know, I'm glad you said that because I was wondering about that exact thing. (Not that it would stop me from showing if I really wanted to ) But it had crossed my mind only because I've bred and shown other animals and I've seen that kind of thing a lot. Doesn't seem to...
  6. Oblio13

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

    Quote: Sixteen weeks, Ajax: And just so this post isn't a complete hijack:
  7. Oblio13

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

    Quote: That's a Great Danish Slobberflap cockerel, which lays absolutely huge, very dark things. I'd be happy to mail you some.
  8. Oblio13

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

    Quote: Hey, don't you have some Wheatens as well that will be ready to lay soon?? I thought you posted pics of some really pretty Wheatens that looked close to laying age a while back They're five months old. No eggs yet. The suspense is killing me.
  9. Oblio13

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

  10. Oblio13

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

    Quote: If they have yellow legs, they aren't Marans. They've been sold as such under false pretenses by people trying to make a fast buck.
  11. Oblio13

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

    Quote: LOL, I'm actually disappointed when I gather white eggs from nesting boxes now. There's just something so much more satisfying about brown eggs - even though they're never dark enough. They could probably come out black and I wouldn't be satisfied. My birds came from Bev, nice lady...
  12. Oblio13

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

    Quote: That's about right. When they first started laying, I was getting 3's and 4's. Then they darkened up a bit and I got an occasional 6. Now I'm getting fairly consistent 4's. I also get an occasional egg that's just tinted, and very rough-textured.
  13. Oblio13

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

    The eggs I hatched my Black Coppers from: About the best eggs I've ever gotten from them: The usual color I get from them: A pair of young Wheatens. Anxiously anticipating their eggs. Should be soon.
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