Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[babyrnlc]

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Where in mo are you? May have to take a day trip! What kind of feed do you like?

I'm in south-central MO, about 30 miles south of Rolla. I use Game Bird Breeder feed (non-medicated)

Might be more of an overnight trip depending on where you are coming from in OK. Oh duh! I just read you are from Tulsa. If my memory serves me, you are about 7-8 hours from me? It's been more than 36 years since I've been out that way.

Ok, my memory is way off! It's about a 5 hour trip!

Yeah Rolla is 6 hrs. I know because we went there to host my daughter we adopted from Russia.

 

[kathyinmo]

Hey, did you all see the photos submitted for the 2012 Calendar? They narrowed it down to 45 pictures. I pasted them on a BYC page, if you want to see them all together.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=31282-2012-calendar-submissions

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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Hey, I grew up in Washington and my family still live in the Everett area! Well, my mother is in Spokane now.

Do you miss the rain???????

I love Washington, but will move if need be. They are trying to allow coal trains to come in to the city I live in and be shipped out to other countries and I am not speaking of tiny amounts of coal either...talking exuberant amounts. There is a moratorium on the trains right now, but if the company that is seeking it gets their way....I am gone. Sad too because this is the town I was born in and with the exception of a few years, I have lived here all of my life. I won't miss the rain though....DH and I have discussed it at great length and if we move we will probably look toward Bend, Oregon area or further south for the remote possibility of a little less rain. I'm sure my Marans would love a little taste of the "dry" life.

Bend is beautiful! I lived in Redmond for a short time when I use to firefight. That area has a lot to offer and I bet the Marans would like it!

Oh, and I don't miss the rain as much as I do the Old Growth forests, as I grew up in an area outside a small town called Granite Falls--although there are a lot less Old Growth now....

 

[Wynette]

Marans peeps - do any of you have ANY idea what this may be? This member's rooster has a major issue with his leg feathers - I had one last year with the same thing (although mine didn't get nearly this bad - I culled him because I couldn't get him healed) - and now my current boy look like he's at beginning stages as well - it's NEVER the hens, ONLY the roos:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=7101836#p7101836

There are several folks who seem to have the issue - I've treated as if bacterial, then as if fungal - have NOT begun the Hibiclens/Virkon treatment but am going to begin that this week.

Just thought that MAYBE someone else with Marans has seen this. I'm hoping so, and that some of you have ideas we can try!

 

[stoopid]

My boy Clyde has some nasty looking foot feathers, I just thought it was normal with the territory.
Will check his tootsies tonite. And, no, I haven't noticed any of the girls having it....?

 

[Wynette]

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Interesting - I wonder if it's the same thing? I've not heard of any Cochin or Brahma folks having the issue, but then, I don't look at those threads very often.

 

[Wynette]

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Interesting - I wonder if it's the same thing? I've not heard of any Cochin or Brahma folks having the issue, but then, I don't look at those threads very often.

WAIT A MINUTE...are you just trying to get me to post again?

 

[snowbird]

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Wynette, No way of knowing for sure but would say that this is all started by chicken mites, the mites will burrough at the base of the feather in the leg causing the infection and the male will pull out or break the feather trying to get to the irritation, by the male pecking the feather and surrounding area will cause infection.

Check the bird for louse and if you do not see any does not mean they do not have them. Treat for the mites and then treat the leg for the infection.

By keeping the roost poles coated with Malathion 50 will not have this problem.

 

[Wynette]

Thanks Don - I appreciate the feedback, but no mites here. I am on a regular program for mites/worms, and check them frequently. He is the only one in the pen that has the issue....I had a rooster last year that also had the issue. It's never the hens, only the roosters - this is the 2nd one thus far. I've treated for all types of mite - the only one that cannot be treated for, in my research, is the one that burrows INTO the feather shaft. I suppose it COULD be that, but why would he be the only one that has it? So frustrating! I also need to get pics of my boy's legs - they're not nearly as bad as the one in the pics from the quoted thread, but I fear if I cannot get it nipped in the bud, it eventually WILL be.

 

[stoopid]

Wynette, No, but you do need to step it up on the yackmeter just a tad...

Don, I haven't seen any signs of bugs, I keep up on that end of care. When I clean out my coops, I spray down the surfaces with the Adams spray, and have been very happy with that. I do however, have a bumblefoot problem that I just can't beat.
Maybe a correlation between the two?? The coops are clean, maybe something in the soil? It has been very wet here...