Giving up on Marans..

[Buck Creek Chickens]

If you want eggs ruth has good ones, https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=176263 , nice no to pricey and hatch great shipped.

 

[Wynette]

Oh, I'm so glad a trade worked out for you! I love to see a good trade go down! I just swapped some Marans eggs for completion of my farm logo. I'm thrilled with the outcome!

 

[ruth]

Hi Buck Creek - thanks so much for the recommendation.

The BST thread they linked to is a special offer of my "reject" eggs at $35 a dozen including shipping. Like a lot of BC Marans breeders I am now trying to focus on egg color and breed standards. So I'm offering my light eggs at discount prices. It's a great way for a beginner to get in the business.

I am getting great hatch reports from those who have bought my eggs - averaging 9 out of 12 or 18 out of 24 which I find amazing because I don't ever get those great results from shipped eggs I've ordered. One person asked what I was feeding them because his eggs hatched at day 18 - yep, day 18 - and they were "big and healthy and the loudest chicks he'd ever heard".

So if you are on a budget, they are $35 a dozen or $60 for two dozen, to go out today or tomorrow. Buy a simple $50 styrofoam incubator and you're in business.

 

[60ACRES]

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...So wheres the pics of this logo? I've looked, cannot find.

 

[Dixiedoodle]

I had my heart set on Marans, also. But after much studying, reading and talking to others, I decided to get a few other breeds that I like and forgo the Marans for NOW. I want really dark eggs to add to my basket but will just wait, learn more about keeping chickens and wait for the market to settle and then find a great breeder and buy some eggs to hatch.

In the mean time, I have ordered true Blue Ameraucanas, Rhode Island Reds, Barred Rocks, Buff Orpingtons and an EE... I will have nice brown eggs from medium to light in color, blue eggs from the Ameraucana and hopefully green eggs from the Easter Egger.

 

[Promiselandfarm]

Dixiedoodle~ Is it not fun getting the multi-colored eggs in ones basket? We have from white to beige, greenish(thank you ducks), blue, light brown to dark brown with some with specks and some without. It is so fun my husband actual said it is his favorite thing about the chickens. He got Marans for his B-day gift we drove to Ga to pick them up(*LONG DRIVE) and they have yet to lay! We are so ???? wondering if they are going to ever lay they are now well over laying age now but no eggs yet. So not only do you pay the big bucks to get the chicks or hatching eggs you have to wait a longer time than usual for them to start laying.

Well I can hear it if and when they finally do, it will be like he found the first ever laid egg in the world...

 

[Backyard Farm]

Caribou,
I live in Vancouver, WA

I have a number of nice Bev Davis pullets from her blue copper pen that are due to start laying in a month or so. I have a Black copper roo from ron presley. Babies will be black, blues, splash - some black copper, some blue copper, some probably plain blue.

I sell newly hatched chicks for $5 each. (straight run)

I am hatching a few from my black copper roo and a few cox hens.
I am hatching eggs from the girls that have help their color the longest. (started in Dec). Right now, my list for people who want chicks cover any that I have hatching for the next month or so as I don't do too many. (< 30 per month).

don't know if this would be an option, just thought I would let you know.

 

[cariboujaguar]

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That would be an option... if you want to start advertising we could pick chicks up and drop them off on our way down and then on our way back pick up a few for ourselves.. how far are you from I-5, for the life of me I can't place Vancouver, I feel so stupid LOL

On a side note, I JUST replied to an add on CL 5 Cucko Marans hens, just started laying but they went broody on her and are sitting eggs, so she wants them gone. I went and looked at them and saw one hens egg, it was on the lighter side, but just dark enough to be considered Marans, so at least it's a starting point... they were friendly and beautiful, they are from superior hatchery I think she said, I know it started with an S...
She ended up throwing in an Ameraucana hen with 4 Astrolop/Ameraucana cross chicks under her wing... SO CUTE!!!

I am no expert on chickens, but they have brown tones in their white so I'm guessing thats a big breed flaw... some of them had nice big chests and one had a pointy chest, one had a short back and long neck, was very upright like a jungle fowl almost, the other 4 were level backed and seemed decent... but I don't know squat yet, can't beat $10 a hen for laying hens right? At least it's a start, like I said... and if they stay broody I'll put some eggs under them and hatch out some good babies... so them along with the ones I'm bartering in CA might mean I can get a great start here... I hope!
Thanks for plugging away with me folks, keep a wether eye out for pics, I want firm critisism on these gals, at last I can learn with them

 

[onthespot]

brown tones in their white just means golden cuckoo. Same as copper black crossed on silver cuckoo, a combo of those two genes. Some people prefer golden cuckoos over silver cuckoos...

 

[cariboujaguar]

I was wrong about the hatchery, they came from Stromberg's Hatchery... yeah they are a brownish color where their white should be, so it would be acceptable to put them in with my golden Cuckos and let the Golden roo cover them then? I can't wait to pick them up tomarrow, I will certainly get pics for everyone to see them!