Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[Keara]

finally some photos of the chicks I hatched from Nadine's eggs. These were from Blue and Black Copper hens covered by Blue and Black Copper roosters.

group shoot, I hatched 14 of 18 eggs

a blue and maybe a splash?

a blue and a darker blue?

black, (feet are same color as others but, some how the light changed them in the photo)

more black

I really like these chicks, my husband is approving of the blues, and wants more!

 

[hcarr1234]

Is this a Black Copper Marans? It is 19 days old.

 

[sewandgrow]

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I like the look of those bird feeders .. . . .. WHERE did you pick them up at ?

Lisa, I got most of mine at Tractor Supply but Home Depot has them too at the same price, $4.95

 

[sewandgrow]

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Haha....yeah...I still get twitchy when I hear them doing their calling, I'm currently working on putting a more solid covers over the pen. Its a slow process with the weather, but most of my birds are still in the barn pens. I've been rotating pens I let out onto the lawn and down in the summer runs while I am out there with them working on stuff.

My problem hasn't been with the hawks so far this year...its with stray cats that have taken up residence in the barn. I'm going to be working on iradicating them....they are super wild, I think probably cats people have dumped off out in the country and then they follow the creek bed right up to our place....they have either killed off or chased away the original cats I had....but if that wasn't bad enough, they are egg thieves...it makes me pretty upset to go collect hatching eggs only to go find a nest full of empty shells...but it gets worse, much worse...there is an old scar faced tiger striped tom that is now teaching the others that its 'OK' to chase down and eat my birds!! First is was one of my pigeons, then a dove...and the other day they broke the door to the chicken house where I keep my bantams...that's just the last straw...this has all happened in the last three days...so now I'm in full gear to stop this. Especially since I have pygmy goats babies coming any day and they are going to be extra, extra tiny as their momma is a midget pygmy....I can't be worrying about these dang cats anymore!

You want to borrow my 410.???? I have an over & under with a 22ga & 410ga that I have used for years for the gophers that I can't seem to get rid of. If I had all the money back that I spent through the years on plants that the gophers got we could have retired even earlier.....LOL

 

[sewandgrow]

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I woke up to the same sky!! Gotta love spring....I also adore your egg!! I am also trying to find a good breeder of Black Copper Marans. I also live in Washington and was wondering if you had any suggestions of where I could get a couple that lay the dark eggs.

Lucky you.....You live in "Breeder Heaven".............. I & many others have to get all our eggs & chicks "long distance"......LOL

 

[sewandgrow]

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Congratulations......Boy are you in for some exciting times. Goos luck. Have fun with your new chicks.

 

[sewandgrow]

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You could try to PM Lotsapaints here in California. She has Turkeys & several breeds of chickens.

 

[sewandgrow]

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Alright you giys........don't be scaring me about this brooder full over Lavenders I have. t was a good hatch & no one has had any problems so far. Maybe my ignorance paid off. I didn't even know they were considered difficult....

 

[Debbi]

Hey GEEBS!!

Glad you are ok lady! Hurry back

 

[Hens and Roos]

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this is our 2nd year raising broad brested white and broad brested bronze turkeys for the kids to use as 4-H projects. We found that it was better to keep them in a separate pen by themsevles as they seemed to do better. Also we have the turkeys on a higher protein food compared to the chicks(we are using a 27% gamebird feed). We also keep them off dirt for the 1st 8 weeks or so but we are colder up here so they had to stay in our heated garage-of course this current batch is now in the garage as well. DH is just waiting for it to warm up so they can be outside. Good luck, they are funny to watch!