Incubators Anonymous

[DMRippy]

Quote: That is NOT a copper Marans.... it has a head spot it could be a cuckoo??????

 

[Strader]

Here's a pic of Daddy Maran

From Selah, WA

 

[DMRippy]

Copper Marans chicks








Cuckoo Marans














So you either got the wrong eggs or there is some sex link thing happening and that is a cockerel. Head spots mean they will have barring. If the roo was a Copper marans and the hen barred that is a roo.

 

[marchick]

I am hatching some copper marans for a gal in Selah, WA . This is the second batch I'm doing.

Thank you Strader,Do you have any pictures of eggs or chickens?

 

[marchick]

Thank you DMRippy, Oh, I am a little slow those are cockoo marans.Guess I will keep dreaming blue and black copper.I hope my dreams will come true next year.

Oh I just looked at Daddy pictures and am very confused!

 

[ki4got]

Here's a pic of Daddy Maran

From Selah, WA

do you have pics of the hens he was bred with? the ones behnd him don't look to be coppers either. more like red sexlinks or RIR.

 

[randerson846]

I got a rooster last Wednesday, it was a red sex link, and it was taken back because they guy accidentally gave me his prize rooster, ahahah but then on Friday I got a new one, it is a white leghorn,and it has been in with them since Friday, so today I cracked open one if my eggs to make an inlet, and u saw the white bullseye in it, and then I cracked open two more, and they also had the white bullseye, so I have two questions,
1. Which rooster would it be is there anyway to check, because they hens lay fertile eggs for 30 days don't they,
2. Since I have the rooster in with 12 hens, and I am getting about 9 a day, since I opened 3 in a row is there a chance that they are all fertile or just a lucky chance
Thanks Reece

 

[DMRippy]

I got a rooster last Wednesday, it was a red sex link, and it was taken back because they guy accidentally gave me his prize rooster, ahahah

but then on Friday I got a new one, it is a white leghorn,and it has been in with them since Friday, so today I cracked open one if my eggs to make an inlet, and u saw the white bullseye in it, and then I cracked open two more, and they also had the white bullseye, so I have two questions,
1. Which rooster would it be is there anyway to check, because they hens lay fertile eggs for 30 days don't they,
2. Since I have the rooster in with 12 hens, and I am getting about 9 a day, since I opened 3 in a row is there a chance that they are all fertile or just a lucky chance
Thanks Reece

I have seen fertile eggs for a week normally after they have been with a roo..... 2 weeks MAX. I have only heard stories about 30 days never seen it myself.
I would assume ALL are fertile.

 

[randerson846]

Ok thanks

 

[randerson846]

So i candled all my eggs, and there was one with the ring of death, and 16 that were infertile, or just didn't grow, and that leaves me with 3 duck eggs, and 24 chick eggs although there is one which i cant find ahaha i have it wrote down on a note pad (i numbered them all) and i couldn't see it, but i didn't want to look for it for to long as the eggs were starting to cool down, so i have 27 viable eggs(not including the one i cant find ahah) due to hatch on the 20th of may 15 days to go