Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[DMRippy]

Sorry for all the lost pullets today!

PinkChick per you request better pics of the chick for color ID

The first 2 are with a flash and the others is outside overcast light

 

[gilavina]

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hey Donna! what breed is this again? You'll wanna watch the leg color as they appear rather yellow. On birds with flesh colored legs sometimes they will be that way for a few days after hatch due to the egg yolk etc...it doesnt usually last very long and the color will fade out...

 

[DMRippy]

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hey Donna! what breed is this again? You'll wanna watch the leg color as they appear rather yellow. On birds with flesh colored legs sometimes they will be that way for a few days after hatch due to the egg yolk etc...it doesnt usually last very long and the color will fade out...

This is a marans and just trying to figure out if it is a splash or blue. She just hatched last sunday.

 

[gilavina]

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hey Donna! what breed is this again? You'll wanna watch the leg color as they appear rather yellow. On birds with flesh colored legs sometimes they will be that way for a few days after hatch due to the egg yolk etc...it doesnt usually last very long and the color will fade out...

This is a marans and just trying to figure out if it is a splash or blue. She just hatched last sunday.

good deal...Those light colored ones are tricky sometimes.... If I had to guess...I'd say splash....only time will tell me I suppose haha

 

[DMRippy]

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This is a marans and just trying to figure out if it is a splash or blue. She just hatched last sunday.

good deal...Those light colored ones are tricky sometimes.... If I had to guess...I'd say splash....only time will tell me I suppose haha

Splash pullet

 

[DMRippy]

My other bcm chick he already has red on his wings

for a good looking roo. BTW red neck was injured in a fight... he has a bad limp so I don't know if he could breed. Two of the boys that were definite culls.... have turned into real lookers. One is like red neck just not quite as dark and deep red and has much less red on his breast. The other guy is coming along nicely too.... The one roo that was my first pick... is going to a stew pot ASAP. He is attacking me and he is full of white under fluff and still has white feathers that were hidden. We will be moving everyone to new breeding pens next week and I will get pics for you then.

 

[Mountain Mel 22]

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The hatchery Cuckoos that I've had laid more consistently than the Blue & Black Coppers that I have had, but the eggs were way lighter in color.

 

[gilavina]

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Just spent the last hour of my life running around like an idiot in the dark.... sure...started out innocent enough...shutting up birds to the north for the night after everyone left from celebrating my mom's birthday..... and headed south to shut up all my young birds in the grow out pens next.... and heard something rustling in the leaves under some of my hanging grow out cages and thought it was one of the cats....and flashed the light to see a possom....heard some more rustling....and saw another possum running away..... and then in the opposite direction heard all my youngest birds with all my young birchens all of a sudden set up a ruckus...... Ran over and sure enough... another possom!!!!!!!!!

So at this point...my mom corners the thing in the building....and I am running around looking for anything to kill it with...ran to the barn and procured two pitch forks, secured it to the ground well enough to run off and grab a cage to stick it in....got it in and ran off to the house for the gun. Needless to say...I have one less possom causing me problems. There have been three traps baited and set....pens and houses shut up like fort knox and now its a waiting game. I'm so ticked, I'm not sure if I'll sleep a wink tonight. I am really glad I got a bunch of work done on the stall fronts today tho and will keep working tomorrow and get as many of the birds out of the south pens asap!!!

 

[gilavina]

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Sounds like you have some good prospects over there Donna. I look forward to the pics and hope that Red Neck will heal up alright. I've had roos fight when I was younger and thought for sure they were done for and had them recover....so I'll keep hoping he heals up nicely!

Were the chicks you just hatched from shipped eggs or your own? I'm so behind on everyone's hatching I can't keep any of it straight right now....I always get this way in the fall because its so stinking busy!

 

[DMRippy]

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You GO GIRL!!!!