Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[gilavina]

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Ah, the dreams of a chicken addict! Gotta love'em! too funny! Me thinks if I was getting tons of dark eggs, I'd be putting them in the incubator asap...because I could justify turning it on then.

Haha I know it was a dream because, since it has been raining here a bunch the last week, egg laying has been at a minimum

It was finally sunny today and I saw Miss Sassy up on the patio checking out an old pet carrier. The lavender orp roo was with her. He went into the carrier and was clucking and fluffing up the pine litter for her and trying sweet talk her to come in there and lay an egg. I will have to check around the patio later and see if she laid one.

One of my experimental Olive egger pullets that resulted from an OE that I crossed back to my Marans roo from a super dark egg laid her first egg today!
It is so dark olive it almost looks brown..almost!

where's the pics of this lovely egg??????!!!!! I'm dying to see it!

 

[Debbi]

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I hear ya Lynette! Tonight, Bad Charlotte refused to go in on the second offer, so she is OUT for the night. As I walked ino the house, I could hear the coyotes gearing up. Sure hope she has enough sense to roost on the deck at least...

 

[gilavina]

hows that rockin egg coming along Debbi? I had an incredibly long day of work, but did get a chance to sit with my birds and given them some treats before work....I have at least a couple of birds selected for showing. Its almost painful seeing a few of the birds I wanted to show all molty and sad lookin.

 

[Debbi]

Well so far I've seen 3 rock. Today is only day 19, so I kind of expect to see some action by tomorrow evening! We'll see, and all in their own good time.

 

[BarnGoddess01]

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Dang!! I have a tough enough time waiting for my own eggs to hatch. Now I'm all in on your eggs too ... It's surely a disease ...

(I won't sleep tonight worrying about Debbi's birds that didn't make it back to the coop with the coyotes singing AND the rockin' eggs .... <sigh> )

 

[gilavina]

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Dang!! I have a tough enough time waiting for my own eggs to hatch. Now I'm all in on your eggs too ... It's surely a disease ...

(I won't sleep tonight worrying about Debbi's birds that didn't make it back to the coop with the coyotes singing AND the rockin' eggs .... <sigh> )

yay! I'm keeping my fingers crossed for you!

 

[Debbi]

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Dang!! I have a tough enough time waiting for my own eggs to hatch. Now I'm all in on your eggs too ... It's surely a disease ...

(I won't sleep tonight worrying about Debbi's birds that didn't make it back to the coop with the coyotes singing AND the rockin' eggs .... <sigh> )

Now who's giving who the gafaws??

It'll be ok, I promise; now sleep well, tomorrow will be another day...

 

[flgardengirl]

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Haha I know it was a dream because, since it has been raining here a bunch the last week, egg laying has been at a minimum

It was finally sunny today and I saw Miss Sassy up on the patio checking out an old pet carrier. The lavender orp roo was with her. He went into the carrier and was clucking and fluffing up the pine litter for her and trying sweet talk her to come in there and lay an egg. I will have to check around the patio later and see if she laid one.

One of my experimental Olive egger pullets that resulted from an OE that I crossed back to my Marans roo from a super dark egg laid her first egg today!
It is so dark olive it almost looks brown..almost!

where's the pics of this lovely egg??????!!!!! I'm dying to see it!

Haha I will get it from thier nestbox and take a pic of it for ya tomorrow. It has pooooo on it LOLOL . Those silly girls are still confused about the whole nestbox scenario. Some are roosting on the roost and a few are still trying to sleep in the nestboxes. I had to pick one egg up off the floor and put it in the nestbox to give them the idea.

 

[gilavina]

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where's the pics of this lovely egg??????!!!!! I'm dying to see it!

Haha I will get it from thier nestbox and take a pic of it for ya tomorrow. It has pooooo on it LOLOL . Those silly girls are still confused about the whole nestbox scenario. Some are roosting on the roost and a few are still trying to sleep in the nestboxes. I had to pick one egg up off the floor and put it in the nestbox to give them the idea.

haha Ok...sounds good! I have the birds for making olive eggers, but won't get a start on breeding the F1s til next spring. Its gonna be hard to wait for the eggies to start showing up!

 

[flgardengirl]

Poor Charlotte I hope her and my 5 key west hens up in that tree are okay tonight. There are some roos up there too but I'm not all that worried about them lol. I have way too many KW roos...