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

    As of this morning, I have one rooster and one hen left, out of a flock of 40 black copper marans. Along with them, I also lost all my bantams and Langshans. We still haven't discovered what possibly could have gotten them or how it got in. Ironically, this was our most secure (we thought)...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: That is just about my favorite rooster I've seen on this entire thread.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: The standard for BCs is already established, and despite what just a couple of people (one in particular) are saying, it's pretty much identical to the French standard. A lot of squawking (pun intended) was done a few months back over a hen who was shown, who people felt should've been...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Why do you think that is? Do you think its in the bloodline? *I would really like to know. I think what ninja is saying is that since everyones jumping on the bandwagon of marans for their eggs many aren't focusing on conformation as much as they could because they are focusing on...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I've posted tons here about my birds I got from him last year, but I think the flock he has now is different, a little, from the one he had then. I started with 8 roos and 12 pullets, and culled, culled, and culled some more, selecting the most correct specimens from what I had to...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    I'd bet the farm on those other three being female. Of course, we still owe a lot of money on our "farm"...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    I swore I would NEVER brood any more turkey poults. UGH! But hey, if someone else wants to do it, and outside, to boot, who am I to argue?
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    As of this morning...two hatched, two more pipped.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    One of the reasons I chose Orpingtons was for their reputation for broodiness. Well, I haven't had an Orpington hen yet that didn't quit on her clutch (but a couple are setting now who might break that streak). HOWEVER, during my Marans' first spring, I have three that are broody right now...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: They taste like regular eggs. We just have one nutty person on this thread who hates the taste of eggs--all eggs.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    I couldn't see anything but the black peck-marks. I don't believe my hens have ever produced blood or swelling!
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: I don't know about Buddy's roo, but if you're referring to the peck marks on his comb and wattles, my roos look like that about 90% of the time! It seems to come not from the other roosters, but from what I can observe, the HENS! My boys that are out with the hens definitely have more...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    I'm stumped, but I wanna hear what others have to say!
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Yup, they're all feathered. No surprise, since all the parents are. I hope the hens pick up laying again soon. I have gathered a mere handful of eggs in the last two days! I thought spring was supposed to be a productive time! I have one hardcore broody among the Marans, and I have...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Everyone is doing well since last night, no more losses, thank goodness. I moved them all into the giant brooder with 6 3-week-old chicks, and that seems to have pepped everyone right up. Maybe the biggers encouraged them to eat and drink plenty by example. I think the ones I lost were all...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    First time this has happened to me--I have chicks dying! So far I've lost 5 or 6, and I can't figure out what's going on! One by one, this is what happens: Chick gets lethargic, then one leg goes limp, then curls uselessly. Bad leg eventually straightens, and then hyperextends in a backward...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Haven't got my pics uploaded yet, but I have 15 new Marans and 2 new crosses today. This was a much improved hatch, but still could be a lot better. This time I ran the incubator DRY. It maintained at about 25% humidity the entire time, with no water in it at all. At the end, I added a tiny...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: All I can tell at that point is (maybe) whether they're totally clear or not.
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Too bad you're so far away--I've got a couple hens I'd let you have, maybe three. One has weird coloring, and the others have black eyes. And I'm about to put a couple roosters in the freezer! Later this summer, though, if I still have my culled hens, I'll put them with my Ameraucana...
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    Marans Thread for Posting Pics of Your Eggs, Chicks and Chickens

    Quote: Now that ain't right, ya'll gotta be nice to me too. Hmm..dress funny? You should have seen me earlier when I was wearing my long sleeve Eskimo Joe's shirt with my Dr. Seuss pj bottoms and mud boots. Now that WAS a funny sight! Have you been rifling through my closet? Quit...
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