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  1. walkswithdog

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

    Think good thoughts for me... My third set of shipped eggs are due to hatch at the end of the week. This is my third try for GCMs... I didn't candle, I've just let em roll. (For fear of dropping one.) And because as dark as Nivtups eggs are it's pointless. Now the waiting gets worse...
  2. walkswithdog

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

    Either she's ended up dwarfed or that's a failure to thrive chick. Every now and then I'll get one that just won't grow or feather in normally like all the others - say one or two out of 100 or more a year. Don't know why it happens, it just is there. I don't have the time or money to feed...
  3. walkswithdog

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

    Quote: Yay then she's a girl! No comb really at this point. Hoorah, for once I have a singleton hatch that turns out pullet. Do the dance of joy! This is my SOLE survivor from the second disaster hatch - the one with the 134 degree temp spike! Yay...
  4. walkswithdog

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

    Anyone with six to eight week old BCM pullet pics? I've only got one bcm chick and I'm blinking at him/her and wondering what will it be? I'm thinking pullet but I haven't had BCM before. Can get pics tomorrow....
  5. walkswithdog

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

    Quote: I have noticed my broodies have much better luck in Fall and spring then after June gets going. And by July - hatches suck here in the bator or under a broody. So I'm closed down til Fall.
  6. walkswithdog

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

    Quote: Awww not even one is just heartbreaking... I'm sorry, I'll hope for luck for both of us next time.
  7. walkswithdog

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

    I'm figuring on forest fire or tornado, but earthquake wouldn't be out of the realm of possibility. I will persist. Dick Dickerson and Ione have wheatens and I may go that way in fall if my dental bills stop eating me alive. I'd rather have GCMs but Dick and Ione are in TN so no shipping...
  8. walkswithdog

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

    I'll get pics soon but I had two marans hatches and... I have two marans. This time everything looked good had ten eggs going well. Yay, finally, right? Of course not. On day 14 I come in, in the evening just to glance at temps, this incubator is a dead on reliable bator, never needs...
  9. walkswithdog

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

    I'm going to let them run and I accepted an offer for some test delawares just because I don't want to end on an ugly note okay and ended up with an antique bator to test...
  10. walkswithdog

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

    It's the same pain, no matter the breed really. I was so jazzed that nine of the twelve were good, then the fans... and there it went. It looks like the less developed silkie/sizzle eggs that were on a lower shelf (hence cooler) some of those survived, seven were moving when candled today...
  11. walkswithdog

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

    Well, my SECOND hatch of marans appears to be a bust. The dogs unplugged my fans last week and the temps skyrocketed into the ungodly zone (120's), there don't appear to be any survivors. I'll give them a couple more days of vain hope. Tomorrow I'm having the root canal. That'll top my week...
  12. walkswithdog

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

    Forget coveting... I'm headed rapidly toward another sin - stealing. OMG he's gorgeous - I will require eggs from hens he's mated to.... okay I'll just die of envy and coveting...
  13. walkswithdog

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

    Ahhhh I have wheaten envy! Good luck with them! My one BC is doing well with his Bourbon Red poult buddy. More marans eggs hopefully due to hatch on the 8th or 9th. Some of these are wheaten, one GCM and some BC... I'm rather rooting for the GCM and the Wheatens, after seeing the one...
  14. walkswithdog

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

    I'm on my second attempt with shipped eggs, all but two of the first batch were scrambled or broken. Somebody just shoot me... I dropped a GCM egg. And I only had three. I could just scream. The carton it was in had a tear I didn't see and it wobbled out when I tilted it and I didn't catch...
  15. walkswithdog

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

    Man, chicken genetics are sooooo cool. An inhibitor to frizzling is just wicked... hmmmm okay eventually maybe I can use that to play inside my sizzle project. If I breed a maran's that started with curlies, and then mastered them...it would have inhibitor genes and I could use it to make big...
  16. walkswithdog

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

    Quote: If the shoulder feathers also curl up they will probably frizzle, the flights do look frizzled.
  17. walkswithdog

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

    Quote: I had to add that IRONING and Steaming them won't help - the bugger is going frizzle
  18. walkswithdog

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

    Quote: LIKE THIS??? And is she not adorable? Hey it had to be said...
  19. walkswithdog

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

    I was kinda figuring there's a LOT of drama everywhere in Marans. I mean really... I just focus on the NICE and helpful and informative people and dodge the whackos. Fortunately on line you can delete or refuse to read idiocy when you see it. People get intense, I think the internet makes it...
  20. walkswithdog

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

    My eggs came! One was busted but the others are fine, I bought 6 GCM and she included four spares, three CB and one W. Yay.... Now if I can just get them hatched... Marans eggs are gorgeous even if it was actually the Roos that sold me on the breed. Just a gorgeous chicken breed...
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