Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[pinkchick]

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I bet the little layer of fat would have changed it quite a bit. I like duck and goose, my family thinks I am crazy everytime I ask if we can switch it up for our Thanksmas gathering and have either or, but nooooooope, only turkey.

 

[Mountain Mel 22]

I'm down to 13 birds. All of them came from Pink except my one Cuckoo Marans that lays HUGE eggs.

 

[pinkchick]

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How many eggs you getting a day?

 

[Mountain Mel 22]

I just picked up 6 today. The OE hasn't laid in a week. (and 2 of my 13 are the Blues Brothers) Usually I'm getting 6-8 eggs per day.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Had a few minutes today and so DD and I took some updated pictures of the Blue Copper Marans pullet we have. She is 23 weeks old and currently laying around a 6 on the Marans chart.

She is getting some grass to eat outside of the run-DD is holding the gate open:

 

[Mountain Mel 22]

Hey Pink...make one more post so I can see you hit 6000!

There...you did it!

 

[pinkchick]

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That's a nice haul for a day. I am glad that they are laying good. The last couple days have been good around here for eggs too. Looks like the girls are getting into the swing of things. The pathetic molters are starting to look like chickens again.

 

[pinkchick]

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Ohhhh....she's lovely! She's got better copper than I have been getting, this is very nice to see.

 

[gilavina]

Hey Kim.... got any pics to share with us from your bird viewing extravaganza yesterday?

I'm feeling the need to live vicariously through others photo shoots since I don't have a way to charge my camera at the moment

 

[pinkchick]

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Funny you should ask because I am working on making some photos smaller so that I can upload them. I have 2 cockerels and would like everyones opinions on. Looking for hard core evaluations of them, I need to be able to justify feeding them and if they aren't worth it, they too are gone. Then I would be down to 41.

I'm curious to see where these 2 boys are going to go, but curiousity has almost worn out its welcome and curiousity isn't enough to justify keeping them. I have watched them thus far and so far I am not in big likes with them. Not feeling 'em.