Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[DMRippy]

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He was when I left the farm. He did move when we reached to catch him, but decided to just leave him since he was already isolated. We are moving birds tomorrow to the new breeding pens and will give him a good once over then. I don't think he every really got over his previous leg injury and he may have just gotten worse.

May move him in the shop/barn tomorrow when we free up some room.

awww...so sorry Donna! I hope that he will pull through. If you have some electrolytes that might not hurt to give him a boost if he is still alive and responsive. I'm glad you still have that other boy tho...

Thanks everyone. I hope he makes it ... but like you said I do have the other boy. I also have another unrelated roo chick and more eggs to hatch so we will see. I like having 2 roos for breeding just in cases like this. But I still have 7 teenagers roos and 2 babies roos and 52 eggs in the bator, my guess is I will have more choices soon. Could put a real kink in my plans.

 

[gilavina]

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awww...so sorry Donna! I hope that he will pull through. If you have some electrolytes that might not hurt to give him a boost if he is still alive and responsive. I'm glad you still have that other boy tho...

Thanks everyone. I hope he makes it ... but like you said I do have the other boy. I also have another unrelated roo chick and more eggs to hatch so we will see. I like having 2 roos for breeding just in cases like this. But I still have 7 teenagers roos and 2 babies roos and 52 eggs in the bator, my guess is I will have more choices soon. Could put a real kink in my plans.

sigh....I know how it is to get a kink in plans when it comes to losing birds you were going to use for breeding. I lost three boys last spring...two were my only line up for one breeding pen...so I had to pause those plans and go shopping for more stock to hopefully get boys worth something. So now....I definitely believe wholeheartedly in having a back up and a plan c and d as well. I know it might sound paranoid, but its been hard enough to get a good stock... I hope you will find some good prospects in your grow out pens and incubator.

 

[SD_Paulo]

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Don,
thats an excellent idea!

Wynette,
Thanks for the leg work...its greatly appreciated!

 

[math ace]

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It is terrible about your other roo, but the above is just too funny because it is just too true !

 

[berkeleysprings]

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black copper ? only ? right?

 

[pinkchick]

Donna~ I am very sorry about your roo.

What's up with these Marans boys, huh?

 

[pinkchick]

Morning Randy!

That list is not just for Black Coppers, it can be used on every variety of Marans. The Black Copper variety has it's standard posted there since it was the only one that had been approved at the time.

 

[math ace]

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black copper ? only ? right?

I don't think so. We are looking for faults like twisted comb, thumbprints comb, etc.
Also looking for pics on things like slipped wings, roach back, etc.
I don't think it wouldn't matter which breeds we use to illustrate this.

 

[pinkchick]

I was told this is roach back, is it?

 

[pinkchick]

By the way........I am totally LOVIN' this new project of posting faults and DQ's!!!!!!!! I'm actually enjoying going back through my records and photos of past birds and finding faults that I was not in tune with.