Marans Thread - breed discussion & pictures are welcome!

[gilavina]

Mornin' Vicki

Good deal! Good feeling to get rid of the culls and extras. Now, we'll see how many more you bring home with you!

haha...I will bring none back! I don't think I'll probably stay for the sale since I've got so much other stuff I have to get done. Days off have become pretty precious, so don't want to waste them!

 

[Debbi]

Just went out to feed, and one of my Black Silkie pullets is sitting on a BUNCH of eggs! No way, no how was she letting me count them! She even had her wings fanned out to cover the ones on the edges. Hope she sticks it out...

 

[Hens and Roos]

here are some pictures so you can see the leg colors I was talking about...within normal?

The chick in the 1st pictures does appear to have some green tint to the legs- not sure on that one.

the cuckoo chicks legs look the same color as the legs on my cuckoo marans.

 

[flgardengirl]

Evening all

Count me in on the sweetie pie Americauna!

I have B/B/S Wheaten Americauana who are 2mths old and they are the SWEETEST chickens!

They cry for me and line up at the fence line, whenever they can see me and then just crowd all around my feet, asking to be picked up!
I love them!!

They are in my only floor pen for youngsters (the rest are in bunny hutch type houses) and I'm finding either floor raising the Marans or raising them with the sweetie pie Americauna is making for really sweet Marans, too! Even in the wild child velociraptor phase!


THEN, as I sit there with a lap full of sleeping babies, I think "I can't BELIEVE I have another breed....am I NUTS?"

I raised my original blue and black copper Marans and blue Ameraucanas together as babies until they got old enough to breed. You are right that batch of blue and black copper Marans are very very sweet.
I raised a leghorn (known to be flighty with a bunch of laid back sweet chickens and the leghorn is very sweet and likes to be held and have her neck scratched daily so there is definitely something to that theory lol.

 

[flgardengirl]

The chick in the 1st pictures does appear to have some green tint to the legs- not sure on that one.
the cuckoo chicks legs look the same color as the legs on my cuckoo marans.

Cuckoos and wheatens and whites usually have paler legs than BCM and Bl coppers.

 

[flgardengirl]

haha...I will bring none back! I don't think I'll probably stay for the sale since I've got so much other stuff I have to get done. Days off have become pretty precious, so don't want to waste them!

Ya ya ya heard that one before...then you see the perfect compliment bird to a project you have going on LOL!!! = More chicken math

 

[Debbi]

Ya ya ya heard that one before...then you see the perfect compliment bird to a project you have going on LOL!!! = More chicken math

Just what I was thinking too! If she comes back with nothing, well, she's got more willpower than me!

Just had one Blue? Silkie hatch!!!

 

[flgardengirl]

Last year I let the chickens have free reign of the garden, I hardly got a tomato for myself, and I didn't really care. They let the cantaloupe, watermelon and squash alone for the most part. This year we fenced it in, haven't planted any warm crops yet, but got my onions, garlic, spinach, lettuce and sugar snap peas mulched in over the last few days. All this talk of potatoes has me wondering if I could grow some. Got some beautiful radishes the past few days.
I'm getting some Marans hatching eggs from my neighbor -who knew he had Marans?? Not me! I called to see if he had fertile eggs for my son's science class, and I've heard a roo over there - he says I'm welcome to hatch his eggs as long as I cull all of the Roos as he doesn't want anyone breeding from his line. I am soooo curious now. Can't wait to see his birds.

I had to fence my garden this year cuz last fall the turkeys who are tall enough kept eating every pepper I had even the super hot ghost peppers LOL! They taught the buff orpingtons to jump up and get peppers too. Then there is Sassy the blue birchen marans, opportunist, who thinks she is a turkey gangsta gal, who gets up on the turkeys backs and eats anything she wants grrr. I have tons of tomatoes now and the plants are way past 5ft tall. They should be ripe in another week, then we will see how good that fence is haha. I still need to finish mulching everything. I hate pulling weeds!

 

[flgardengirl]

Just what I was thinking too! If she comes back with nothing, well, she's got more willpower than me!

Just had one Blue? Silkie hatch!!!

Yeah

I hope you have an awesome hatch!!!

 

[flgardengirl]

Just went out to feed, and one of my Black Silkie pullets is sitting on a BUNCH of eggs! No way, no how was she letting me count them! She even had her wings fanned out to cover the ones on the edges. Hope she sticks it out...

Haha these crazy girls are going broody everywhere now. My prettiest Blue Marans just went broody too.