Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[Sweetman1205]

 

[Braxton Brigade]

Whelllll some good news and some bad.....thank you everyone!! I'm not supposed to keep roos.....i would love love love to have one maybe she/he will continue to be super quiet and nobody will have a cow!! Please please please.....and if Mercury is a roo I'm guessing Neptune is also.....posting pic about 7weeks too

It has been a year of boys for me. And yep, that is a cockerel too, is it a cream leg bar? It is very common for chickens to be shown, basically you just put them in a cage on a table for a judge to come by and see. Then you come back and see how they did and if you won anything. Simpler than any other animal show really lol.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Whelllll some good news and some bad.....thank you everyone!! I'm not supposed to keep roos.....i would love love love to have one maybe she/he will continue to be super quiet and nobody will have a cow!! Please please please.....and if Mercury is a roo I'm guessing Neptune is also.....posting pic about 7weeks too

Yes I'm sorry. Also a roo..

 

[Red Banks]

Quote: Cockerel.....

 

[Sweetman1205]

It has been a year of boys for me. And yep, that is a cockerel too, is it a cream leg bar?  It is very common for chickens to be shown, basically you just put them in a cage on a table for a judge to come by and see. Then you come back and see how they did and if you won anything. Simpler than any other animal show really lol. 

Yea is been a year from h*ll!! We lost our girls to a racoon March of this year and ever since we can't catch a break!! Lol bought 2 ameraucanas they were sick and not ameraucana very pretty EEs....the horrible hatch of Marans all with brachydactyly and now half possibly 3/4th the flock is male...sorry to melt down...reality sunk in

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Yea is been a year from h*ll!! We lost our girls to a racoon March of this year and ever since we can't catch a break!! Lol bought 2 ameraucanas they were sick and not ameraucana very pretty EEs....the horrible hatch of Marans all with brachydactyly and now half possibly 3/4th the flock is male...sorry to melt down...reality sunk in

Yeah we have had awful luck this year. Out of every hatch almost all have been males. We have like 20 little roos.. :/

 

[Sweetman1205]

Yea is been a year from h*ll!! We lost our girls to a racoon March of this year and ever since we can't catch a break!! Lol bought 2 ameraucanas they were sick and not ameraucana very pretty EEs....the horrible hatch of Marans all with brachydactyly and now half possibly 3/4th the flock is male...sorry to melt down...reality sunk in

Yes she is a mix of legbar and Ameraucan.....lol i think anyway lol she's getting a muddy color coming in so w we will see! And thank you for all the support!!

 

[Sweetman1205]

Horrible luck is right! I'm with ya!

lol i miss eggs!!

 

[Sweetman1205]

Oh!!! Lol and my one female Mars honks like a goose......seriously

 

[Braxton Brigade]

Yeah we have had awful luck this year. Out of every hatch almost all have been males. We have like 20 little roos..

Yea is been a year from h*ll!! We lost our girls to a racoon March of this year and ever since we can't catch a break!! Lol bought 2 ameraucanas they were sick and not ameraucana very pretty EEs....the horrible hatch of Marans all with brachydactyly and now half possibly 3/4th the flock is male...sorry to melt down...reality sunk in

Sweetman, If you ever have any basic type questions you can shoot me a PM. I am fairly versed on the day to day things, It's just marans that I am new with haha. And try not to think too hard about all the downs, usually those darned things come in a group. I lost a 6 week old splash ameraucana chick, a gorgeous english black orpington, and ended up with a case of scaly legs all in the same week

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I just consider too many roos to be part of hatching/buying unsexed birds/eggs. I finally got rid of all the extra roos of my rando breeds, Before I got rid of them I probably had 16-18 cockerels running around harassing my layer/mixed group during their free range time

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