Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[gilavina]

I didn't make it for the easter hatch this year, but am going to put a tray of 96 eggs in tonight when I get home. I can't wait to see what I get!

 

[pinkchick]

Vicki~ I didn't make it in time for the Easter Sunday hatch here in the U.S. but I will have babies hatching for Easter Monday in Canada.

 

[DMRippy]

Vicki~ I didn't make it in time for the Easter Sunday hatch here in the U.S. but I will have babies hatching for Easter Monday in Canada.

Me too! LOL but if they hatch like this batch they will be here Easter Sunday, well some anyway. I set 220 this time.

 

[Debbi]

Hey Debbie: I remember a while back you were asking if anyone knew if their Silkies buried their eggs? My silkies have a little portable day house with a dirt floor in their run (this isn't their regular coop but kind of a hideout/fort for the run lol) anyhow, the other day I was checking it for eggs and there in the corner I saw a half buried egg. I pulled it out and there were 4 more underneath that one. Sneaky girls! Maybe they aren't so dumb after all.

Yes, they are sneaky!! I thought that maybe it was just the one pullet doing this, because when she left it hadn't happened again. Went out yesterday to find only one egg. Hmmm, moved some bedding, and there was a whole other nest of 5 eggs under the one!

Goofy little birds! I had asked about this over in the Solkie thread, and no one else seemed to have this going on. I find that odd. Either that, or they have just never dug under the top nest?? Leave it to me to have some special freaks shows!

 

[DMRippy]

Why is it so hard to sex marans. Can vent sex a marans?!*!*!*

I can feather sex mine... have you tried that? So far I think I can do that with all my varieties of Marans... I can't sex my Ameraucanas either... they are 2 months old now and I am thinking I don't have any roos..... I thought I had one but I am not thinking that now.... and one of my crosses is making me think pullet too... that would mean out of 12 I got only 1 roo WTH?

 

[Debbi]

My Easter hatch will be on Good Friday. I hadn't even planned it, but I've got 2 dozen Silkies due then.

 

[pinkchick]

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I have some that bury their eggs too....not silkies, but my a couple of my Barnie girls do it.

 

[Debbi]

Get some of Wynette's eggs if you want to know sex right out of the shell! I swear, I could tell what they were when they dried off! 2 roos, 1 pullet! Combs were very obvious, and the wing feathering now confirms it.

 

[pinkchick]

Love Spring.........it brings out the hatcher in all of us. Good luck to everyone that has eggs going...and congrats to everyone who is hatching right now. Bring on the baby photos!!!!!!!!!

 

[Debbi]

Vicki ~ Are you water logged up there?? Gees, more rain coming in tonight. Already have 6", and this place looks like a mud wrestling pit!