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Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!
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Ruth your chickens are fabulous!
Looking at those makes me want to get my breeder pen set up and start hooking the ladies and gents up. I'm afraid it's going to have to wait until after this weather clears up a bit.
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Hi Ivy! Congrats on the Jeep!
I intergrate new birds by keeping them as close as I can to the flock that I want to put them in so that they can see each other for about a week, I'll admit it takes a little longer, but the aggressions that some head hens may show are a little less after I do it this way. Atleast when the older girls want to peck the new birds they have to do it though the fence, therefore they don't get as much of a bite because the fence play interference. After they have been incorporated it still usually takes a couple days or more for the newbies to become accepted 100%. Good Luck.
Oh....and jealous that you have that many eggs, I had to cancel egg delivery last week to my customers due to only getting 6 dozen total.....I needed 20.
It does look like they are picking up though... I got 22 eggs yesterday, small beans to some, but like winning the lottery for me!
With any luck I won't have to cancel the next delivery. Takes a bite out of the old pocket when the girls haven't done their share......and to think, all I ask is from them is an egg, how hard is that?
Hi Ivy! Congrats on the Jeep!
I intergrate new birds by keeping them as close as I can to the flock that I want to put them in so that they can see each other for about a week, I'll admit it takes a little longer, but the aggressions that some head hens may show are a little less after I do it this way. Atleast when the older girls want to peck the new birds they have to do it though the fence, therefore they don't get as much of a bite because the fence play interference. After they have been incorporated it still usually takes a couple days or more for the newbies to become accepted 100%. Good Luck.
Oh....and jealous that you have that many eggs, I had to cancel egg delivery last week to my customers due to only getting 6 dozen total.....I needed 20.
It does look like they are picking up though... I got 22 eggs yesterday, small beans to some, but like winning the lottery for me!
With any luck I won't have to cancel the next delivery. Takes a bite out of the old pocket when the girls haven't done their share......and to think, all I ask is from them is an egg, how hard is that?
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OMG!!!!!
OMG!!!!!
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Thanks for posting pics of them Shelley! You forgot egg photos though.
You and Mountain Mel are the first to post pics of Marans from me after they have left the building and I appreciate that very much. I always wonder how they all turn out after they have matured. Thank you!
If he is anything like his dad when he is 1.5 yrs old, he will be even bigger and chunkier. Gnarles gave Bill a run for his money in the size dept. but still comes up too short to beat Bill. This guy has a nice back and tail set, better than Gnarles' in my opinion.
In the second photo of him, just below his wing, where it looks darker...what's going on there with the feather color? I can't really tell in the photo's or maybe it is my monitor......but I'm not thrilled with that if it isn't just a variation of blue. Does that area look as though it has an light orangy dirty red leakage with some variations of a slightly darker blue? Looks like he has some copper flecking in his breast, is that what I am seeing? Sorry for soooooo many questions.
Do you mean that her comb went whacky because it got really big or because it lopped over or because she has too many points? I am pleased by the amount of copper that she has in her hackle. This is a big improvement......crossing my fingers for the next generation to have even better coppering.
Thanks for posting pics of them Shelley! You forgot egg photos though.
If he is anything like his dad when he is 1.5 yrs old, he will be even bigger and chunkier. Gnarles gave Bill a run for his money in the size dept. but still comes up too short to beat Bill. This guy has a nice back and tail set, better than Gnarles' in my opinion.
In the second photo of him, just below his wing, where it looks darker...what's going on there with the feather color? I can't really tell in the photo's or maybe it is my monitor......but I'm not thrilled with that if it isn't just a variation of blue. Does that area look as though it has an light orangy dirty red leakage with some variations of a slightly darker blue? Looks like he has some copper flecking in his breast, is that what I am seeing? Sorry for soooooo many questions.
Do you mean that her comb went whacky because it got really big or because it lopped over or because she has too many points? I am pleased by the amount of copper that she has in her hackle. This is a big improvement......crossing my fingers for the next generation to have even better coppering.
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Thanks for posting pics of them Shelley! You forgot egg photos though.
You and Mountain Mel are the first to post pics of Marans from me after they have left the building and I appreciate that very much. I always wonder how they all turn out after they have matured. Thank you!
If he is anything like his dad when he is 1.5 yrs old, he will be even bigger and chunkier. Gnarles gave Bill a run for his money in the size dept. but still comes up too short to beat Bill. This guy has a nice back and tail set, better than Gnarles' in my opinion.
In the second photo of him, just below his wing, where it looks darker...what's going on there with the feather color? I can't really tell in the photo's or maybe it is my monitor......but I'm not thrilled with that if it isn't just a variation of blue. Does that area look as though it has an light orangy dirty red leakage with some variations of a slightly darker blue? Looks like he has some copper flecking in his breast, is that what I am seeing? Sorry for soooooo many questions.
Do you mean that her comb went whacky because it got really big or because it lopped over or because she has too many points? I am pleased by the amount of copper that she has in her hackle. This is a big improvement......crossing my fingers for the next generation to have even better coppering.
Pink...he is all blue, I am not sure what color you think you see, but there isnt any black or white if that is what you are asking? he does have a tiny bit of copper in his chest, but not much. those pictures were in a dark barn with a halogen light in it, so not real good lighting. Plus not a super high quality camera. the hens comb got big just before she started laying and its not real floppy but kind of. I never got any good pictures of the eggs, and now I put them under a broody hen, thank god she decided to hatch something so I didnt have to trust my incubator. Cant wait to see how that turns out!
Thanks for posting pics of them Shelley! You forgot egg photos though.
If he is anything like his dad when he is 1.5 yrs old, he will be even bigger and chunkier. Gnarles gave Bill a run for his money in the size dept. but still comes up too short to beat Bill. This guy has a nice back and tail set, better than Gnarles' in my opinion.
In the second photo of him, just below his wing, where it looks darker...what's going on there with the feather color? I can't really tell in the photo's or maybe it is my monitor......but I'm not thrilled with that if it isn't just a variation of blue. Does that area look as though it has an light orangy dirty red leakage with some variations of a slightly darker blue? Looks like he has some copper flecking in his breast, is that what I am seeing? Sorry for soooooo many questions.
Do you mean that her comb went whacky because it got really big or because it lopped over or because she has too many points? I am pleased by the amount of copper that she has in her hackle. This is a big improvement......crossing my fingers for the next generation to have even better coppering.
Pink...he is all blue, I am not sure what color you think you see, but there isnt any black or white if that is what you are asking? he does have a tiny bit of copper in his chest, but not much. those pictures were in a dark barn with a halogen light in it, so not real good lighting. Plus not a super high quality camera. the hens comb got big just before she started laying and its not real floppy but kind of. I never got any good pictures of the eggs, and now I put them under a broody hen, thank god she decided to hatch something so I didnt have to trust my incubator. Cant wait to see how that turns out!
Pink-Thanks for the advice on the integration. I'm afraid it's a project that is going to have to wait a while. All birds are inside the coop or the barn. It is not fit for man nor beast out there today.
I gathered eggs late this morning, and just got back in from checking on everybody and gathering again. It is so icy out (not including the snow drifts) I ended up slipping on the way back in with a dozen eggs in my wire egg basket. I broke all but 3. It was the marans eggs that did not break! Those boogers are tough! I don't know how a chick ever gets out of them!
I gathered eggs late this morning, and just got back in from checking on everybody and gathering again. It is so icy out (not including the snow drifts) I ended up slipping on the way back in with a dozen eggs in my wire egg basket. I broke all but 3. It was the marans eggs that did not break! Those boogers are tough! I don't know how a chick ever gets out of them!
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Ivywoods, you must have sent the weather this way, IN, as it was snowing ice chips when I secured my two coops and now it is snowing 1-2" an HOUR
for the rest of the night. Most unusual for this neck of the woods. The girls did pretty well despite the weather, eggwise. Had allowed some of my juveniles, Blue Rocks, out of their security cage in the big coop last night to join the rest of the crowd and stumbled through the snow to check on them several times today. Glad to report everyone seemed to do pretty well. Gave them BOSS and Scratch to keep everyone digging for treats instead of focusing on the newbies
Everyone stay warm and safe.
Risa
Ivywoods, you must have sent the weather this way, IN, as it was snowing ice chips when I secured my two coops and now it is snowing 1-2" an HOUR
Everyone stay warm and safe.
Risa
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X2 Nice job Ruth!
X2 Nice job Ruth!
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