Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[math ace]

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Three months and no pin feathers yet? Nothing growing back yet ? ?

 

[Debbi]

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Three months and no pin feathers yet? Nothing growing back yet ? ?

Are you giving him vitamins? Have you tried upping his protein? He may have follicle damage, but I'd try some protein treats for him (and the rest of the flock!). Try some BOSS, if you can afford it, I can't any more! Mealworms are great too. Scrambled eggs too!!

 

[gilavina]

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Three months and no pin feathers yet? Nothing growing back yet ? ?

Are you giving him vitamins? Have you tried upping his protein? He may have follicle damage, but I'd try some protein treats for him (and the rest of the flock!). Try some BOSS, if you can afford it, I can't any more! Mealworms are great too. Scrambled eggs too!!

Oats are really good for feather growth too!

 

[flgardengirl]

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I think its all in the timing. I don't mind so much the first 2-3 weeks then after that, they get stinky lol

That's why I'm shooting for about mid Feb.

RIGHT THERE WITH YOU .... FEB 20, I am sitting eggs!

Yep I have a feeling one is going broody soon and its an olive egger. Not the ones I would want to go broody either grrrr. The last few days, I keep finding a ton of black feathers in the nestbox where the OEs lay thier eggs every day. Last time they starting pulling thier breast feathers out they went broody.

 

[DMRippy]

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that is exactly the opposite of what my husband said

he looked at me and said you are going to make it an incubator aren't you? Really not sure.... if it works might use that as my fridge for egg storage for my egg selling license.... but I really like the idea of the glass front....

 

[DMRippy]

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Three months and no pin feathers yet? Nothing growing back yet ? ?

It does take a long time. I had a girl that had all her tail feathers picked out and would have been killed if I hadn't taken her out. I know it took at least 2 maybe 3 to grow back but you could see progress after a month... wonder if there was so much damage that there is scar tissue

She also did not lay an egg till she was 10 months

but it was huge! i have some young roos that had their tail feathers picked out over a month and still no feathers. They look rumpless too.

 

[flgardengirl]

I have a rumpless BCM...her name is guinea girl

She knows her name too. I walk out and call Guinea Girl and she comes a running. That's cuz dh spoiled her rotten.

I had a few roos that molted out thier tail feathers and it took months for them to come back. I also have that one BCM who fought the predator that took his friend last summer and he ended up losing his tail feathers (got them all pulled out at once) and he still does not have any feathers!! I am praying them come back black and don't turn white like some chicken's feathers do that get pulled out traumatically.

 

[flgardengirl]

Here is a pic of Guinea Girl from when she was a pullet for people who haven't seen it lol. She has no actual tail for feathers to even grow out of. The person I got her from as an egg says she didn't know where it could of come from that there were no araucana blood in them. I haven't hatched any of her eggs so couldn't tell you if it is hereditary but I know some others who got tail less birds from the same person. Anyhow, we decided to keep her and put her with the laying pen girls. She is a sweetie. Figures she ended up with nice coppering lol.

 

[DMRippy]

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They look so off balance to me without tail feathers. But cute... I think....

 

[Cadeau]

Hmm - I'll put Red Cell in their waterer tomorrow!
I usually only do it once or twice a month.

I can also bring them up some cat food for extra protein tomorrow!!
They went nuts for horse treats today!! LOL

I moved him to a house with a bunch of young girls a couple months from POL.
Maybe he needs some R&R away from the bachelor pad!

They get lots of oats b/c the horses get oats as part of their ration.
Oats before or after digestion seem to be equally palatable!

Anyone have opinions about ANY of the birds posted - PRETTY PLEASE??

(Does no comment mean good or bad news??)