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  1. evonne

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

    Quote: oohhh she's a little chunk... is that normal for cuckoo marans?? if it is, i can't wait till mine look like that... she's a little cutie pie.... i have cuckoos from privett hatchery.. they're only a few months old right now though.. not even 2 i don't think...
  2. evonne

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

    old mc donald had a farm... eeiieeiioooooooo.... and on his farm he had marans... eeiieeiiiooooooo.... old mc donald went crazy trying to figure out the breeding pens.. that's why he sings silly eeiieeiiiooooosss...!!!!!!!!!!!!! i should stay away from the strawberry margaritas... lol.. i...
  3. evonne

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

    Quote: Thank you but did you notice only 1 has a tail grown out? on my cuckoos that i could sex based on the white spots on their heads, the 2 girls got their tails first while the 4 boys are still running around with little stubbies.... so maybe you've got a pair.....
  4. evonne

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

    Quote: i think with the way they talk about cycles, and that each hen is sposed to have one and can get lighter, i would ASSUME they mean that you want to hatch only eggs from hens that get the darkest of your hens, not the darkest of the laying cycle?? say you have 3 hens that happen to be...
  5. evonne

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

    Quote: does the "cycle" coinside with molting though?? os is the start of the cycle when they start laying and lasts for a year... i have a pullet that is molting right now and not laying, so is her first cycle over? or is she in the middle of it and the next cycle doesn't start until she's...
  6. evonne

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

    something to keep in mind when saying it's not a marans if it doesn't fir the standards... people do theis w/ aracuanas and ameracaunas.. even if both parents are standard, but the chick is not it's considered and EE... maybe there needs to be a nonstandard version for birds that have the...
  7. evonne

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

    Quote: hey... don't go pickin on us people who still get excited about it.. lol... i had a hatch where i had 6 eggs developing at day 4 and it was my first hatch so i candled a LOT for the first 2 weeks when you could see the differences... all 6 hatched.... but these were leghorn cross eggs...
  8. evonne

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

  9. evonne

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

    kathy.. you have me ssoo lost... how many different marans did you get???????? wait.... ?????????????????????? ........................... yeah......................... my god.. i thought you had a lot of birds before.. how many do you have now???
  10. evonne

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

    awsome.. i'll go back and find the link and read it over.. i think i'm sticking with the cuckoos, i have them, and i really just want fun eggs... i will however breed out as much of the bad as i can as i go along though so the information will be helpful...
  11. evonne

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

    kathy, i have NO CLUE on marans, becasue i'm new enoguh that i just got hatchery stock cuckoos.. lol.. but some of the coloring on the hackles of those is more creel?? my little roo that we think is a sexlink has creel patterning like that, could it be that the person you got them from had a...
  12. evonne

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

    don't make them get out the bold letters again you guys!!!!
  13. evonne

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

    Quote: hhmmm i may have to find me a couple of these... is that color fairly common??
  14. evonne

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

    what color is that white one considered?? he's very cool... i know nothing about breed standars and just keep them for fun and for egg colors...
  15. evonne

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

    Quote: probly nothing.... i've had 0 out of 34 from shipped eggs.... all becasue of the PO scrambling them too much... good luck with the ones that are developing
  16. evonne

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

    Quote: i was thinking the same thing.. but i know nothing on genetics... but if you breed mixing lines and you get great birds from great stock, and you prove that new line, what's the difference... these original breeders got their birds somewhere.. and then their line got known based on...
  17. evonne

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

    oohh but slow feathering is a marans issue?? at least i'm on the right trail then... should i band him so i know that he shoudl not be used for breeding?? i'd have a hard time giving him away knowing he shouldn't be bred due to a funky genetics trait, but he could hang with my mixed flock of...
  18. evonne

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

    oohhh you guys made her use bold letters... you're in trouble!!!!! on the fused toe thing... obviously only having 6 month olds, i haven't seen it.... but i now know to watch for it... but is it linked to the parents you think?? or just a random freak genetic thing... like being a dwarf?? it...
  19. evonne

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

    Quote: OMG Patty, how do you do that? how does she do what?? confuse the hell out of me?? it's not tht hard.. lol.... that's interesting info though.. i'll have to try to remember all of it... i should copy and paste it somewhere..... are black copper and copper...
  20. evonne

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

    i've been reading a little, and since you guys are on the feathered legs subject again... i got some cuckoo marans from a hatchery.. they all have clean legs...do i not want to breed these?? i got them mostly for the egg color, but i mmight hatch some since i have them.. ?? are cuckoo's sposed...
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