Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[flgardengirl]

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Geez those babies are gonna be afraid to come out!

 

[Debbi]

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Geez those babies are gonna be afraid to come out!

I don't know, my Silkies don't seem to think of themselves as "chickens". The Marans don't see them as chickens either!

 

[flgardengirl]

I imagine if you just used chicken fat it would work if you had enough of it. Probaby could use any type of fat really. I made mine really lean with hardly any fat and it was really good just a little dry so I thought I would add more in next time. I don't think I used as much as the recipe called for.
I kinda just use recipes as a guideline and then go do my own thing lol. Sometimes it works out and sometimes not haha.

 

[DMRippy]

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You think that is bad... I use a CHICKEN rotisserie as my egg turner in the incubator.... irony

Well... they are both used to cook chickens

 

[gilavina]

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haha ok! that's good to know...I don't like as much fat as is in most sausages...so I was wondering if it would need to be over the top with fat or not. Blech!

 

[MuffsnFluff]

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Of course

Will do it later tonight when the mob goes to sleep

yay! Where are you picking them up from? I've read about the cottage hill line, but never really seen a website or anything to see what the stock looks like when grown

Picking them up from Rancher's Poultry Farm aka Randy Bivens in a couple hours. He had a website but he took it down a couple weeks ago, having to sell out his stock because of health reasons. I'd talked to him about getting a few more birds earlier in the year so I kind of freaked when the bookmark site dissapeared, lol! But he had a few babies just hatch out, and he had a few hatching eggs left he said he'd throw in his 'bator for me

I'm gonna try to get some good pictures of the stuff I got from him in the next couple of weeks when the birds cooperate well and it's not raining ;D

 

[flgardengirl]

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Geez those babies are gonna be afraid to come out!

I don't know, my Silkies don't seem to think of themselves as "chickens". The Marans don't see them as chickens either!

Haha yep my other chickens are act like the silkies are freaks of nature. The turkeys plain out hate them and want to kill them and probably would if they could. Its funny the turkey hens dont have a problem with the other chickens except the bcm that wants to mate them. I actually think the turkeys are jealous of the silkies.

 

[flgardengirl]

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You think that is bad... I use a CHICKEN rotisserie as my egg turner in the incubator.... irony

Well... they are both used to cook chickens

Okay that sounds really intriguing. I have a rotisserie that we use for our BBQ. I was thinking of getting a larger one for the BBQ and then maybe use the other one for something else...an egg turner-cool!

 

[Debbi]

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You think that is bad... I use a CHICKEN rotisserie as my egg turner in the incubator.... irony

Well... they are both used to cook chickens

Kind of getting them used to the idea early, eh??

 

[Debbi]

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Could you just add a bit of olive oil to the mix? Might give it some moisture, and would be good fat as oppossed to adding pork?