Black Copper Marans discussion thread

[Wynette]

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Hatchery GLWs. I got those so I wouldn't be tempted to keep any. ha!

Now THAT is funny!

I'll anxiously watch for your olive eggers to be breeding true for you! I'll have to shoot over to the OE thread to see if you've posted pics of your eggies...I have a certain shade I'm aiming for, not there yet,though!

 

[geebs]

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[geebs]

Okay..... you are officially banned!!! that is it... banned... WTH... you are hatching GLW??? NO WAY MAN... can't be... uh... why???? Oh and tell me they are hatchery birds while you are at it... (I need a heart pill)

 

[snowbird]

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Jan, what are you refering too, the weird Creepers.

 

[geebs]

GLW's... I dont' like yellow... hence my aversion to yellow in the hackles and wheaton.

DON>>>> get it straight.. LOWRIDERS... sheesh... there is NO creeper song...

Can ya all hear it now!!!!

 

[Medicine Man]

It's okay, Geebsie...I picked them up at the feed store when I had three Marans hens go broody at once. They will be rehomed the instant they are weaned from their mamas.

Or, they might be testers for the new facility, to make sure it's secure.

 

[geebs]

PICTURES MM>>>> PICTURES.. new facility... can't wait to see it... I have heard about it.... Broody hen love...okay forgiven... that is too nice.... you are redeamed... ha ha....

 

[seabreeze]

My other Marans roo (Mr. Sprig) has a couple of Leghorn babies all grown up now and they are both feather legged, very Leghorn in body style but beefier, wider. Those babies hatched out like a breeze, one of my few successes!

We've got three Marans hens sitting right now and one baby hatched already, found out in the driveway near the big copper splash roo (like he was protecting the little guy) and this little guy is a TANK even at 1-2 days old, he must have bounced pretty good from the box about 3.5 feet up in the air. Poor little guy but none the worse for wear!

Another hen started pecking at the eggs as they were pipping. Boyfriend went to lift her up and check and said large mice or rats ran out from behind the hen!!!!

What's up with that? Most my other chickens annihilate small rodents especially my Leghorns and even the smaller turkeys! Anyway she pecked one baby to death and was pecking at the one that had just hatched, he rescued it and another.

I stopped by the coop on my way back home this morning and checked the oldest broody gal and she had our first HOME BRED BLUE!! I was so excited!! Baby's daddy is the handsome lighter blue birchen boy we got a couple of months ago. Am hoping the rest of the clutch hatches and that blue and others survive the rodents?

Any suggestions other than sinking hardware cloth beneath the coop (almost impossible to do, its a converted horse shelter/car shelter)? Can I use One Bite BISCUIT/BLOCK? ( would NOT use the granules around the chickens at all but can I put a block into the holes underneath the coop?

 

[snowbird]

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The very best product I have ever used is Rampage and tsc sells it around here. It works very fast and kill after one bite. It comes in small block and pellet.

 

[geebs]

Ooops posted on the wrong thread...